Melvyn Hayes
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Biography: Melvyn Hayes is an English actor, now best known for playing the effeminate Gunner "Gloria" Beaumont in the 1970s BBC sitcom It Ain't Half Hot Mum. He has had a long and wide ranging career in movies and television, appearing in over 30 films and dozens of television programmes.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Birthday: January 11, 1935
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Gender: Male
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The Curse of Frankenstein
Overview: Baron Victor Frankenstein has discovered life's secret and unleashed a blood-curdling chain of events resulting from his creation: a cursed creature with a horrid face — and a tendency to kill.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-05-20
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Carry On England
Overview: Captain S. Melly takes over as the new Commanding Officer at an experimental mixed sex air defence base. It's 1940 and England is under heavy bombardment, but the crew seem more interested in each other than the enemy planes above. Captain Melly plans to put a stop to all this, and becomes the target of a campaign to abandon his separatist ideals...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-10-01
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Summer Holiday
Overview: 1960s musical showcasing Cliff Richard. Four bus mechanics working for London Transport strike up a deal with the company: they do up a one of the company's legendary red double decker buses and take it to southern Europe as a mobile hotel. If it succeeds, they will be put in charge of a whole fleet. While on the road in France they pick up three young British ladies whose car breaks down and offer to take them to their next singing job in Athens. They also pick up a stowaway, who hides the fact that she's a famous American pop star on the run, chased by the media and her parents.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-02-18
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A Christmas Carol
Overview: Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
Genres: Animation Drama Fantasy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-21
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Operation Amsterdam
Overview: When Germany invades Holland in 1940, a British intelligence officer and two Dutch diamond merchants go to Amsterdam to persuade the Dutch diamond merchants to evacuate their diamond supplies to England.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-01-12
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The Flesh and the Fiends
Overview: Edinburgh surgeon Dr. Robert Knox requires cadavers for his research into the functioning of the human body; local ne'er-do-wells Burke and Hare find ways to provide him with fresh specimens...
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-02-02
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Love Thy Neighbour
Overview: Two men who are nextdoor neighbors constantly battle it out over seemingly trivial offenses. Their wives, on the other hand, are best of friends. The two couples attempt to win a 'love-thy-neighbor' competition by lying...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-08-26
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A Walk with Love and Death
Overview: During France’s Hundred Years’ War, a Parisian student seeks refuge by the sea and falls in love with an aristocrat. As they find shelter in a monastery, their romance is overshadowed by the ongoing conflict between peasants and noblemen.
Genres: Adventure Drama History Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-10-05
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Crooks in Cloisters
Overview: Having pulled off the smallest ever train robbery, Little Walter and his crew decide to get out of London. The six of them set up business in a disused monastery off the Cornish coast, despite the fact that none of them really qualifies as a monk - least of all Walter's moll Bikini. Bit by bit, the quiet way of life starts becoming a habit.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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Wonderful Life
Overview: Cliff Richard and The Shadows are hired to star in a movie shot amid the lush tropical scenery of the Canary Islands. A sunny seaside spectacular, filled with romance, excitement and high spirits - not to mention a dozen musical numbers.
Genres: Music Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-06-03
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T.I.M: This Is Me
Overview: In a world of Love, Lies, and Prejudice; a "hard-faced" strip club owner Tim struggles to deal with his sexuality. It becomes troublesome when Tims mother Myrtle, who lives with Dementia befriends a Transvestite named Pansy after landing in trouble with the local shopkeeper. Tim and Pansy's relationship intensifies when the favour is returned in Pansy's hour of need.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-01-01
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The Blue Lamp
Overview: P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the easy-going night beat. Dixon is a classic ordinary hero but also anachronistic, unprepared and unable to answer the violence of the 1950s.
Genres: Crime Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-01-19
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The Man Who Loved Redheads
Overview: Framed in flashback, The Man Who Loved Redheads is an anecdotal comedy about a man (John Justin) whose life is defined by his first romantic experience. That liaison occurred in Justin's youth, when the young man matures and enters the diplomatic world, he spends the rest of his career searching for his first love.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-02-06
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Fun at St. Fanny's
Overview: Gormless 25 year-old Cardew, wealthy beneficiary of the Robinson Will, should have left St. Fanny's School many years ago. However, seedy headmaster Dr. Jankers (music hall favourite Fred Emney) is in the toils of shady bookmaker Harry the Scar (boxer Freddie Mills) and has so-far kept his golden goose perched firmly at the bottom of the class. Blissfully unaware of nefarious intrigue around him, Cardew continues to flirt coyly with the French mistress and gamble for school dinners on the form room roulette wheel. But canny Scots solicitor McTavish has been sent to investigate... Featuring television's Billy Bunter, Gerald Campion, gorgeous Vera Day, Will Hay cohort Claude Hulbert, muddle-mouthed Stanley Unwin, a young Ronnie Corbett, and enough old jokes to fill a Christmas Cracker factory.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-15
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No Trees in the Street
Overview: Based on the play by Ted Willis, the film is set in the years just before World War II, when England hadn't completely dug itself out of the worldwide depression. Melvyn Hayes is featured as an aimless teenager, who tries to escape his squalid surroundings by entering a life of crime. He falls in with local hoodlum Herbert Lom, who holds the rest of the slum citizens in the grip of fear including Hayes' own family. No Trees in the Street chronicles Hayes' sordid progress from nickel-and-dime thefts to murder.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-03-03
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Face the Music
Overview: A famed trumpet player is suspected of murdering a blues singer. Using only two minor clues, he narrows the suspects to four people, but only after surviving poison placed on the mouthpiece of his trumpet!
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-01-29
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Bachelor of Arts
Overview: An artist from Continental Europe arrives in England and proceeds to cause havoc.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-09-27
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Santa Claus: The Movie
Overview: In ancient times, a man named Claus, who delivers toys in his small village, fulfils his destiny to become Santa Claus after meeting an expert toy-making elf, Patch, in the North Pole. In the present day, Santa Claus has become overwhelmed by his workload, and the disgruntled Patch flees the workshop to New York City. There, Patch unknowingly threatens the fate of Christmas by taking a job at a failing toy company run by a scheming businessman.
Genres: Family Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-10-29
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What's Up Superdoc!
Overview: A doctor fathers 837 brilliant sons through an artificial insemination program, and every woman wants a donation.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-03-21
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Adventure in the Hopfields
Overview: A little girl accidentally breaks her mother's favourite ornament and goes hop-picking to replace it.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-06-06
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Man About the House
Overview: An unscrupulous property developer wants to flatten the street to make way for new buildings. Householder George Roper is happy to take the offered money and run but his wife Mildred and their lodgers join with other residents to take a stand and keep things as they are.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-12-22
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The Good Companions
Overview: The story revolves around the Dinky Doos, a provincial musical troupe living from hand to mouth.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-04-22
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Woman in a Dressing Gown
Overview: A married, middle-aged woman is shocked to discover that her husband, who she thought was content in their marriage, has become infatuated with a beautiful younger woman and is planning to leave his family for her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-07-03
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Jack and the Beanstalk
Overview: In this spell-binding story brave Jack climbs the Beanstalk to the magical world of Beanland. He and his new friends Dilly (the small but fearless Bean girl) and Ambrose (the nervous donkey) are drawn into all sorts of exciting adventures as they attempt to rid the Beanland of the wicked Giant. This exciting and beautifully animated re-telling of the classic tale is filled with fun, humour and wonderful music to delight children of all ages time and time again.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-11
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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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Bottoms Up!
Overview: An incompetent boarding school headmaster, Professor Jim Edwards, devises a bizarre plot to raise the profile of his boarding school, and thus save his job, by passing off his bookie's son as a Middle Eastern prince. The headmaster's madcap scheme is further complicated when an official from the Foreign Office arrives and announces that a real prince is to be placed under Edwards supervision, not due to the schools lofty reputation, but that a gang of kidnappers are unlikely to look for the regal child there.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-03-25
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The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins
Overview: The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins is a 1971 British comedy film directed and produced by Graham Stark. Its title is a conflation of The Magnificent Seven and the seven deadly sins. It comprises a sequence of seven sketches, each representing a sin and written by an array of British comedy-writing talent. The sketches are linked by animation sequences. The music score is by British jazz musician Roy Budd, cinematography by Harvey Harrison and editing by Rod Nelson-Keys and Roy Piper. It was produced by Tigon Pictures and distributed in the U.K. by Tigon Film Distributors Ltd..
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-11-01
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The Young Ones
Overview: Nicky and his friends find that their youth club is in danger of being flattened to make way for a new office block unless they can come up with £1500 to pay the new owner, the ruthless property tycoon Hamilton Black. To help raise the cash, Nicky records a song and his friends broadcast it via a pirate radio station, touting him as "The Mystery Singer" - the plan works and interest in their up and coming show is heightened by this new but unknown heart-throb. But Nicky has an even bigger secret and one that he cannot share, even with his girlfriend Toni... Hamilton Black is his father.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-12-19
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King of the Wind
Overview: In 1727, an Arab colt is born with the signs of the wheat ear and the white spot on his heel: evil and good. And thus begins the life of Sham. He is a gift to the King of France, through a series of adventures with his faithful stable boy, Agba, he becomes the Godolphin Arabian, the founder of one of the greatest thoroughbred racing lines of all time.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-05-25
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Doctor Who: Shada
Overview: Where the Fourth Doctor left off, the Eighth Doctor comes to finish the job. With Romana and K9 by his side, they have to stop the evil Skagra. A remounted version of the abandoned Fourth Doctor serial, rewritten to feature the Eighth Doctor and fit in with the Big Finish audio drama continuity.
Genres: Science Fiction Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-05-02
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Violent Playground
Overview: A Liverpool juvenile liaison officer struggles with a young and dangerous pyromaniac.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-01-14
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The Silent Invasion
Overview: During WWII, a German garrison is stationed in the small French town of Mereux. French local Maria falls in love with a German captain. However, the romance comes to an abrupt end when her brother, a saboteur working for the Resistance, is killed.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-12-01
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The Magnificent Six and ½: Peewee Had a Little Ape
Overview: Toby tries on a dummy ape skin which is intended for the local jumble sale, and is mistaken for a real ape which has escaped from a travelling circus. Peewee manages to befriend the real ape by giving him a bunch of bananas.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-09-01
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The Magnificent Six and ½: It's Not Cricket
Overview: An errant cricket ball causes mayhem as the gang try to recover it.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-09-01
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