Denys Hawthorne
Also Known As: Денис Хоторн, Денис Вернон Хоторн, Denys Vernon Hawthorne
Biography: Denys Hawthorne’s long and distinguished career has encompassed extensive work in theatre, television and film, both in England and Ireland. Drama has included Shakespeare and Chekhov, as well as many contemporary plays, while he has been seen in popular TV series including Inspector Morse, and Father Ted, and The Russia House, and Emma on the wide screen. Throughout, radio performance has been a constant theme, notably in drama and poetry.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Portadown, County Armagh, Northern Ireland, UK
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Birthday: August 09, 1932
Age: 92 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: October 16, 2009
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Emma
Overview: Emma Woodhouse is a congenial young lady who delights in meddling in other people’s affairs. She is perpetually trying to unite men and women who are utterly wrong for each other. Despite her interest in romance, Emma is clueless about her own feelings, and her relationship with gentle Mr. Knightly.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-08-02
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The Wife Swappers
Overview: Six stories involving wife and husband swapping/swinging, are described in titillating detail while analyzed by a pseudo psychologist.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-09-09
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The Englishman's Wife
Overview: A woman and her daughter are stranded in a rambling old house deep in the countryside of County Tyrone. Their economic circumstances are hopeless, but it is friends and former business associates who pose the greatest threat to their happiness.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-08
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Easter 2016
Overview: Set in 2016 prior to the centennial of the Easter Rising at Northern Ireland's only integrated teacher training college. A struggle develops between the principal and the security director who values security more than education.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-05-18
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The House of the Spirits
Overview: A rancher, his clairvoyant wife and their family face turbulent years in South America.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-10-21
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The Inn Way Out
Overview: A man encounters all sorts of strange places and people when he goes out for cigarettes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-02-01
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Daylight Robbery
Overview: Neglected by her family, kept apart from her grandchildren, desperately short of money, Bea begins to gamble - at first for small stakes, but ultimately for the highest stake of all: revenge for the past.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-07-16
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Wynne and Penkovsky
Overview: The true story of Greville Wynne, the British businessman who doubled as a spy on his trips to Russia, and Colonel Penkovsky, the high-ranking Soviet Intelligence officer who passed key information to the West.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-02-01
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Eviction
Overview: Set in 19th Century Ireland, the 'Molly Maguires' take revenge on an old man who has been telling tales to the Landlord.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-02
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Carson Country
Overview: Play set in Northern Ireland about Carson and the setting up of the Stormont Government of 1918-1920, after strong protests by the Northern Irish Protestants against Home Rule and separation from Great Britain.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-10-23
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Rogue Male
Overview: In 1939, Sir Robert Thorndyke takes aim at Adolf Hitler with a high powered rifle, but the shot misses its mark. Captured and tortured by the Gestapo and left for dead, Sir Robert makes his way back to England where he discovers the Gestapo has followed him. Knowing that his government would turn him over to German authorities, Sir Robert goes underground in his battle with his pursuers.
Genres: Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-09-22
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In the Name of the Father
Overview: A small-time Belfast thief, Gerry Conlon, is wrongly convicted of an IRA bombing in London, along with his father and friends, and spends 15 years in prison fighting to prove his innocence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-12-12
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The Russia House
Overview: Barley Scott Blair, a Lisbon-based editor of Russian literature who unexpectedly begins working for British intelligence, is commissioned to investigate the purposes of Dante, a dissident scientist trapped in the decaying Soviet Union that is crumbling under the new open-minded policies.
Genres: Drama Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-21
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Ireland, Mother Ireland
Overview: A story of the timeless futility of war and death by war, of men who fought for their country, killed for a dream of freedom and died because they were betrayed.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-08-03
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An Englishman Abroad
Overview: Actress Coral Browne travels to Moscow, and meets a mysterious Englishman. Turns out he's the notorious spy, Guy Burgess. Based on a true story, with Ms. Browne playing herself.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-11-29
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Crossfire
Overview: A police computer expert is seconded to Belfast to track down the identity of an IRA mole.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-03-15
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Shoot to Kill
Overview: Shoot to Kill is a four-hour drama documentary reconstruction of the events that led to the 1984–86 Stalker Inquiry into the shooting of six terrorist suspects in Northern Ireland in 1982 by a specialist unit of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC), allegedly without warning (the so-called shoot-to-kill policy); the organised fabrication of false accounts of the events; and the difficulties created for the inquiry team in their investigation.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-06-03
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The Price
Overview: Geoffrey Carr is a wealthy, key player in Britain's emerging computer industry, and newly married to Frances , a much younger woman, with wilful daughter Clare from a previous marriage. He'll do anything to make them happy, including stretching his finances to buy a Georgian estate in County Wicklow, where Frances grew up. Frank Crossan is an Irish Republican hitman on the run from British authorities. Seeking refuge with old girlfriend Kate, he creates a plan to kidnap a wealthy Brit for a ransom to fund a major arms deal. Their two worlds collide when Frances and Clare are brutally snatched away to a bleak hideaway and taken hostage. Geoffrey initially wants to cave in to the kidnapper's demands “ but nothing is simple when a personal crisis plays out against the forces of political intrigue, high finance and with the eyes of the media on them.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-10
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The Life and Times of David Lloyd George
Overview: The Life and Times of David Lloyd George charts the life of the controversial Liberal politician with Philip Madoc in the titular role. The title theme, Chi Mai, was by Ennio Morricone
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-03-04
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The Long March
Overview: A woman returns to Belfast after ten years in England and becomes involved in the Maze prison protest.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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The Human Factor
Overview: When a leak of information in the African section of British Intelligence is discovered, a security man is brought in to investigate.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-18
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Gates of Gold
Overview: Play by Maurice Leitch set in Country Antrim. Two evangelists are touring the area, stirring up religious fervour in the quiet Presbyterian backwaters. The year is 1959.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-03-08
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A Woman Calling
Overview: Professor Broderick, a famous professor of Psychology, returns to his house by Belfast Lough to discover a woman waiting for him.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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A Breed of Heroes
Overview: In 1971, fresh-faced, eager for heroics, the young officers arrive in Belfast. Pelted with rocks by kids, sniped at by the IRA, they take refuge in sex, black humour and the weird rituals of the officers' mess.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-04
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A Private Function
Overview: In the summer of 1947, Britain prepares to commemorate the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Phillip. To get around food-rationing laws, Dr. Charles Swaby, accountant Henry Allardyce and solicitor Frank Lockwood are fattening a black-market pig for the big day. Egged on by his wife, meek Gilbert Chilvers steals the swine, but the couple must conceal it from inspector Morris Wormold.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-11-09
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Samuel Beckett: As the Story Was Told
Overview: A two-part biography of the Irish writer Samuel Beckett. The first part covers the traumas of his formative years: his ill-fated love affair with his first cousin, the death of his father, and his decorated service with the French Resistance. He had settled in France before the Second World War, met fellow Irishman James Joyce, and begun writing. Patrick Magee's television performance of `Krapp's Last Tape' (1972) is interwoven with key landscapes and personalities from Beckett's life. The second part concludes the story of how Beckett finally began to connect with his audience, principally through `Waiting for Godot'. Includes an interview with the actress Billie Whitelaw, a celebrated interpreter of his work.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-04-13
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Blanc de Chine
Overview: Mathieu is called on by the French government to investigate murders in the Asian community of Paris. With Chinese and Vietnamese engaged in a bloody slaughterfest, the key to the mystery lies with the orphan girl who Mathieu helped to escape during the fall of Saigon in 1975. Now a beautiful young woman, Mathieu is reunited ten years later with the refugee, and together they attempt to solve the case. He uncovers a CIA plot that has carried over from the last days of the Vietnam War and that is related to the Paris murders.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-04-20
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Doctor Who: Terror of the Vervoids
Overview: As evidence for the defense at his ongoing trial, the Doctor presents an adventure from his future when he is travelling with a computer programmer named Mel. Answering a mysterious distress call from the space liner Hyperion III, they find that the passengers aboard include unscrupulous scientists, secret agents, saboteurs, thieves and a murderer. And lurking in the shadows are the Vervoids, the product of sinister botanical experiments, who will stop at nothing to destroy all non-plant life.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-11-22
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The Cry
Overview: Ulster 1959. A young journalist visiting his quiet hometown is awakened by a scream in the night. He catches sight of a youth being beaten up and dragged away. When he investigates, witnesses seem to melt away, and life-long friends reveal a sinister indifference. Or is it fear?
Genres: Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-07-31
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Amy
Overview: The story of Amy Johnson who disappeared while piloting a RAF Wellington Bomber
Genres: History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-02
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