Nigel Green
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Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Nigel Green (15 October 1924 – 15 May 1972) was a South African-born British character actor. Because of his strapping build and commanding demeanour he would often be found playing military types and men of action in such classic sixties films as Jason and the Argonauts, Zulu, Tobruk and The Ipcress File. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nigel Green, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Pretoria, South Africa
Adult: No
Birthday: October 15, 1924
Age: 100 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: May 15, 1972
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The Wrecking Crew
Overview: When Count Contini attempts to destroy the world's economy by masterminding the theft of $1 billion in U.S. gold, ICE chief MacDonald summons secret agent Matt Helm to stop him.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-30
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Find the Lady
Overview: During New Year's Eve, a young model spends the day searching for her grandmother, who has suspiciously gone missing.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-10-01
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Meet Mr. Malcolm
Overview: Celebrated crime writer Colin Knowles finds himself at the centre of a baffling real-life mystery when his estranged wife Louie asks for his help. Her new boss has gone missing at his grand country home -- and when his body is found, the hunt is on for a devious and twisted murderer. Sinister letters from London refer to a 'double crime'. Who will be the killer's next victim?
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-01-01
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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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Gorgo
Overview: Greedy sailors capture a giant lizard off the coast of Ireland and sell it to a London circus. Then its mother shows up.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-02-02
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The Queen's Guards
Overview: Captains John Fellows and Henry Wynne-Walton finish their Army training at Sandhurst Military Academy and are sent to the Middle-East. John is to lead a parachute battalion while Henry is put in charge of a platoon of armoured cars of the Household Cavalry. John is constantly being told by his father, an ex-Guards officer that he is not as good as his brother who was killed during the war.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-10-17
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The Face of Fu Manchu
Overview: Grisly strangulations in London alert Nayland Smith of Scotland Yard to the possibility that fiendish Fu Manchu may not after all be dead, even though Smith witnessed his execution. A killer spray made from Tibetan berries seems to be involved and clues keep leading back to the Thames.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-08-06
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The Prince and the Pauper
Overview: In the London of 1537, two boys resembling each other exactly meet accidentally and exchange "roles" for a short while. After many adventures, the prince regains his rightful identity and graciously makes his "twin" a ward of the court.
Genres: Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-03-11
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Man at the Carlton Tower
Overview: The police investigate the murder of an officer, killed during a jewel robbery.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-07-01
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Mystery Submarine
Overview: A British convoy is trying to elude a group of German U-Boats.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-03-03
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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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Corridors of Blood
Overview: Dr. Thomas Bolton fights for the use of anesthetic in surgery and uses himself as a guinea pig, but soon finds himself addicted.
Genres: Drama Horror Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-12-01
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Jason and the Argonauts
Overview: Jason, a fearless sailor and explorer, returns to his home land of Thessaly after a long voyage to claim his rightful throne. He learns, however, that he must first find the magical Golden Fleece. To do so, he must embark on an epic quest fraught with fantastic monsters and terrible perils.
Genres: Adventure Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-06-19
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The Masque of the Red Death
Overview: A European prince terrorizes the local peasantry while using his castle as a refuge against the "Red Death" plague that stalks the land.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-06-24
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Tobruk
Overview: In September 1942, the German Afrika Korps under Rommel have successfully pushed the Allies back into Egypt. A counter-attack is planned, for which the fuel dumps at Tobruk are a critical impediment. In order to aid the attack, a group of British commandos and German Jews make their way undercover through 800 miles of desert, to destroy the fuel dumps starving the Germans of fuel.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-02-07
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Play Dirty
Overview: During World War II in North Africa, a group of British commandos disguised as Italian soldiers must travel behind enemy lines and destroy a vital Nazi oil depot.
Genres: War Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-01-02
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Zulu
Overview: In 1879, during the Anglo-Zulu War, man-of-the-people Lt. Chard and snooty Lt. Bromhead are in charge of defending the isolated and vastly outnumbered Natal outpost of Rorke's Drift from tribal hordes.
Genres: Action Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-22
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Khartoum
Overview: English General Charles George Gordon is appointed military governor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by the Prime Minister. Ordered to evacuate Egyptians from the Sudan, Gordon stays on to protect the people of Khartoum, who are under threat of being conquered by a Muslim army.
Genres: History War Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-06-09
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Let's Kill Uncle
Overview: A 12-year-old orphan who has just inherited a fortune is trapped on an island with his uncle, a former British intelligence commander who intends to kill him. A young girl is the boy's only ally against the sarcastic uncle, who uses hypnotism, a pool of sharks, fire, and poisonous mushrooms as weapons.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-11-18
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The Skull
Overview: An occult investigator buys the 150-year-old skull of the Marquis de Sade, which turns out to be possessed by evil spirits.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-08-25
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The Ipcress File
Overview: Sly and dry intelligence agent Harry Palmer is tasked with investigating British Intelligence security, and is soon enmeshed in a world of double-dealing, kidnap and murder when he finds a traitor operating at the heart of the secret service.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-03-18
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Pit of Darkness
Overview: When Richard Logan, the partner in a safe making firm, is found unconscious, on an old deserted bomb site, he finds that he has no recollection of the last three weeks. Then he discovers that the private detective, hired by his wife, has been found murdered, and a safe that his firm installed in a large country house, has been cleverly opened, and the contents are missing. So with the help of his wife, he sets out to uncover the truth.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-10-01
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The Kremlin Letter
Overview: After an unauthorized letter suggesting U.S. support for a Russian attack on China is sent to Moscow, a former naval officer and his team go undercover to retrieve it. Their plans are disrupted when a cunning politician raids their hideout.
Genres: Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-02-01
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Countess Dracula
Overview: Hungary, XVII century. After being widowed, the old countess Elizabeth Nádasdy, of the Báthory lineage, fortunately discovers a way to become young again; but the price to be paid by those around her will be high and bloody.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-01-30
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The Betrayal
Overview: A seductive and ruthless spy in the service of Germany steals state secrets- including the formula for poison gas-from England and France during World War I. British intelligence, in turn, tries to hunt her down.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-01-24
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The Man Who Finally Died
Overview: Joe Newman, a naturalised Briton, is telephoned by his German father, whom he believed long dead, at the same time as a funeral is taking place in Bavaria - with his father's name on the coffin. His investigation in Bavaria reveals startling facts and the obstruction he meets makes him suspect foul play.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-12-01
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Sword of Sherwood Forest
Overview: Robin of Loxley and his men stumble on a plot to overthrow Hubert Walter, King's Chancellor and Archbishop of Canterbury. The plotters, the Sheriff of Nottingham and the Earl of Newark, have set an ambush for Walter and Lady Marian Fitzwater. Will Robin get to them before it is too late?
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-12-26
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The Gypsy and the Gentleman
Overview: A lusty Gypsy gold digger marries a Regency aristocrat, then learns he has no money.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-01-15
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Africa: Texas Style!
Overview: Two American cowboys are hired by a British rancher to oversee his estate in Kenya. Shot on location in Africa, this film led to the TV show Cowboy in Africa starring Chuck Connors.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-05-01
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The Pink Jungle
Overview: A famous fashion photographer is trapped in a remote South American country with a beautiful model and together with some unscrupulous characters, become involved in the search for a lost diamond mine.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-10-16
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Gawain and the Green Knight
Overview: The medieval legend of a supernatural knight who challenges the king's men to kill him.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-06-01
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Playback
Overview: A young policeman becomes involved with a glamorous German woman in London, to his cost.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-09-01
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As Long as They're Happy
Overview: The suburban peace of the Bentley household is shattered when John Bentley is informed by his wife Stella that their two married daughters, Pat and Corrine are in trouble and need funds to come home and bring their husbands, Peter, a penniless Parisian artist and Barnaby, a Texas cowboy, with them. And the youngest daughter, Gwen, has tricked an American singer, Bobby Denver, into visiting them on the pretext that it is the home of a noted British film magnate. When all the women in the household --- including the maid --- fall for the singer's charms, Bentley consults a crackpot psychiatrist, Dr. Schneider, who almost succeeds in ousting, not the singer, but Bentley's wife, with his advice to Bentley to make her jealous by living it up with Pearl, a showgirl recruited for the purpose.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-03-15
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Witness in the Dark
Overview: A killer breaks into an apartment to steal a valuable brooch. He kills an old woman, but in fleeing he encounters a young woman on the stairs who will become his target.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-12-01
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Bitter Victory
Overview: During the second world war, two British officers, Brand and Leith, who have never seen combat, are assigned a vital mission. Their relationship and the operation are complicated by the arrival of Brand's wife, who had a tryst with Leith years earlier.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-08-28
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Saturday Night Out
Overview: Five seamen and a passenger are intent on making the most of the 14 hours they will spend in London.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-04-01
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The Criminal
Overview: When a robbery at a racetrack goes wrong ex-con Johnny Bannion is caught and sent back to prison. He won't tell the rest of the gang where he has stashed the loot leading to violent consequences.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-09-13
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The Durant Affair
Overview: An unmarried woman, born illegitimate, is convinced to contest her late mother's will.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-05-01
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The Ruling Class
Overview: When the Earl of Gurney dies in a cross-dressing accident, his schizophrenic son, Jack, inherits the Gurney estate. Jack is not the average nobleman; he sings and dances across the estate and thinks he is Jesus reincarnated. Believing that Jack is mentally unfit to own the estate, the Gurney family plots to steal Jack's inheritance. As their outrageous schemes fail, the family strives to cure Jack of his bizarre behavior, with disastrous results.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-09-13
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Stranger from Venus
Overview: Stranger from Venus (a.k.a. Immediate Disaster and The Venusian) is the story of a woman who meets a stranger with no pulse who has the power of life and death at his touch. He is here from Venus to warn Earth about the atom.
Genres: Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-08-23
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This Was Paris
Overview: British agents operate in Paris during the Second World War.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-21
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Reach for the Sky
Overview: The true story of airman Douglas Bader who overcame the loss of both legs in a 1931 flying accident to become a successful fighter pilot and wing leader during World War II.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-07-05
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The Sea Shall Not Have Them
Overview: During the autumn of 1944, RAF Hudson, carrying a VIP passenger in possession of highly secret information, is shot down and ditches in the North Sea. Fighting the elements and trying to keep up morale, the occupants of the aircraft's dinghy talk about their lives awaiting the rescue they hope will come. The film's title reflects the motto of the RAF's Air Sea Rescue Service, one of whose high speed launches battles against its own mechanical problems, enemy action, time and the weather to locate and rescue the downed crew and the vital secret papers they carry.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-06-01
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Beat Girl
Overview: When her architect father brings home a much younger new wife, rebellious and resentful teen Jenny goes to extreme lengths to sabotage their relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-08-21
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The Spanish Sword
Overview: A knight protects the treasure of Henry III of England from a thieving baron.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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