Reece Shearsmith
Also Known As: 里斯·希尔史密斯
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Reeson Wayne "Reece" Shearsmith (born 27 August 1969 in Hull) is an English actor and writer. He is most famous for his work as part of The League of Gentlemen along with fellow performers Steve Pemberton, Mark Gatiss and co-writer Jeremy Dyson. Description above from the Wikipedia article Reece Shearsmith, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK
Birthday: August 27, 1969
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Gender: Male
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Birthday Girl
Overview: John is a mild-mannered banker who has never been lucky in love. Fed up with waiting for the right girl to come along, John takes a chance on a Russian mail-order bride arranged via the Internet, where he is introduced to Nadia. John's fondness for Nadia grows... until the sudden arrival of Nadia's gregarious cousins makes John realize that he's in over his head.
Genres: Comedy Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-06
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Shaun of the Dead
Overview: Shaun lives a supremely uneventful life, which revolves around his girlfriend, his mother, and, above all, his local pub. This gentle routine is threatened when the dead return to life and make strenuous attempts to snack on ordinary Londoners.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-04-09
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The League of Gentlemen - Yule Never Leave!
Overview: It's Christmas time in Royston Vasey, the little northern town whose proud motto is 'You'll Never Leave'...
Genres: TV Movie Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-12-27
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Venom: Let There Be Carnage
Overview: After finding a host body in investigative reporter Eddie Brock, the alien symbiote must face a new enemy, Carnage, the alter ego of serial killer Cletus Kasady.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-09-30
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The League of Gentlemen Are Behind You
Overview: The League of Gentlemen bring their dark but brilliant humour to the stage in this "alternative" pantomime... they're behind you!
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-11-20
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The Cottage
Overview: In a remote part of the countryside, a bungled kidnapping turns into a living nightmare for four central characters when they cross paths with a psychopathic farmer and all hell breaks loose.
Genres: Horror Comedy Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-02-07
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A Brush With Comedy
Overview: Feature documentary from Louis Moir exploring the relationship between comedy and art, and the inner conflicts that lie within. Featuring the director's father Jim Moir, aka Vic Reeves, Spencer Jones, Simon Munnery, Miriam Elia and Bec Hill as they each prepare work for an exhibition.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-04-19
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The First Men in the Moon
Overview: Mark Gatiss's adaptation of HG Wells's science fiction classic. July 1969, and as the world waits with bated breath for the Apollo astronauts to land on the Moon, a young boy meets 90-year-old Julius Bedford. He's a man with an extraordinary story of how, way back in 1909, he got to the Moon first, and, together with the eccentric Professor Cavor, discovered a terrifying secret deep beneath its seemingly-barren surface.
Genres: Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-10-19
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The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse
Overview: The fictional world of Royston Vasey is facing apocalypse and the only way to avert disaster is for our nightmarish cast of characters to find a way into the real world and confront their creators. From present day Soho to the fictional film world of 17th Century Britain, the residents must overcome countless bizarre obstacles in their bid to return Royston Vasey to safety.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-06-03
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Christmas at the Riviera
Overview: The assistant manager of a seaside hotel is left to run the building over the Christmas period.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-12-23
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The World's End
Overview: Five friends who reunite in an attempt to top their epic pub crawl from 20 years earlier unwittingly become humankind's only hope for survival.
Genres: Comedy Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-07-18
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Peacock Season
Overview: The Edinburgh Festival is a funny place to be... When you're not funny.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-08-12
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Him Indoors
Overview: Gregory Brewster is a serial killer, only problem is, he's agoraphobic! Facing an impending eviction from his family home, Gregory has a plan that will save him from being subjected to the one thing he's terrified of... the outside world. Things don't quite go to plan however, when a surprise visit from his new neighbor finds him in a very awkward situation.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-05-30
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An Adventure in Space and Time
Overview: Actor William Hartnell felt trapped by a succession of hard-man roles while wannabe producer Verity Lambert was frustrated by the TV industry's glass ceiling. Both of them were to find unlikely hope and unexpected challenges in the form of a Saturday tea-time drama. Allied with a team of unusual but brilliant people, they went on to create the longest running science fiction series ever made.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-11-21
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A Field in England
Overview: During the Civil War in 17th-Century England, a small group of deserters flee from a raging battle through an overgrown field. They are captured by an alchemist, who forces the group to aid him in his search to find a hidden treasure that he believes is buried in the field. Crossing a vast mushroom circle, which provides their first meal, the group quickly descend into a chaos of arguments, fighting and paranoia, and, as it becomes clear that the treasure might be something other than gold, they slowly become victim to the terrifying energies trapped inside the field.
Genres: Horror Thriller Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-07-05
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Spaced: Skip to the End
Overview: A feature documentary about the making of and influence of the British television series Spaced. It also features an epilogue to the series.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-04-12
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Robbie the Reindeer: Legend of the Lost Tribe
Overview: Follow Robbie as he sets out to discover a mythical tribe of lost Viking warriors to help him save his friends from another dastardly plot by the evil Blitzen and his new-found partner-in-crime The White Rabbit. Robbie is having girl trouble too - Donner is feeling neglected and decides to give Robbie an ultimatum. Can Robbie save the day, keep his girl and unravel the mystery of the Legend of the Lost Tribe?
Genres: Family Comedy Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-12-13
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Psychoville Halloween Special
Overview: Psychoville returns with a spooktacular hour-long Halloween special. Four tales of terror unfold as location manager Phil Walker investigates the abandoned ruins of Ravenhill Psychiatric hospital. Does the ghost of evil governess Edwina Kenchington still walk the empty corridors? What other horrors lie within these crumbling walls?
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-10-31
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High-Rise
Overview: Life for the residents of a tower block begins to run out of control.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-11-22
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The Case of the High Foot
Overview: Comedy short set in the 1930s in which Hilda Stolf (Sally Phillips) visits her doctor (Reece Shearsmith) complaining of a rare case of 'high foot'. But what can be done about it?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-06-01
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50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
Overview: Documentary charting and celebrating five decades of often groundbreaking, boundary-pushing comedy from BBC Two.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-05-24
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Auton 2: Sentinel
Overview: Two years have passed since the Nestene creature vanished from UNIT's top secret Warehouse... Suddenly and without warning the Nestene strikes, once again using Autons as its deadly foot soldiers. As mysterious UNIT operative Lockwood struggles to unearth the Nestene plan, he finds himself drawn to remote Sentinel Island. There, the population have been caught up in a bizarre frenzy of religious activity. Lockwood is joined by Natasha Alexander, a new scientific advisor with her own, sinister agenda. To defeat the Nestene menace they must both face the terrifying power of a creature from before the dawn of Mankind...
Genres: Science Fiction Action Fantasy Adventure Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Borley Rectory
Overview: An animated documentary chronicling famed paranormal investigator Harry Price’s research at Borley Rectory, renowned as the ‘most haunted house in England’.
Genres: Documentary Horror History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-06-06
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Saltburn
Overview: Struggling to find his place at Oxford University, student Oliver Quick finds himself drawn into the world of the charming and aristocratic Felix Catton, who invites him to Saltburn, his eccentric family's sprawling estate, for a summer never to be forgotten.
Genres: Drama Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-11-16
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Rogue Trooper
Overview: Rogue is a "Genetic Infantryman", a genetically-engineered, blue-skinned, manufactured super soldier who, alongside his three comrades, is searching for the Traitor General. His comrades are with him in the form of biochips—onto which a G.I.'s entire personality is downloaded at the time of death for later retrieval—and are named Gunnar (mounted on Rogue's rifle), Bagman (on his backpack) and Helm (on his helmet). Rogue is designed to be immune to almost all known toxins, can submerge in strong acid unaffected, and is able to withstand a vacuum on his bare skin.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Animation
Original Language: en
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Ghosts of Winterborne
Overview: The Devil of Winterborne has only recently been exorcised by PROBE. But when the body of its last victim disappears, and a book of black magic spells is stolen from a local museum, Liz Shaw begins to wonder if the ghosts of the past have really been laid to rest. Forced into an unholy alliance with the school’s disgraced headmaster, Liz must fight not only her own warring emotions, but a festering evil that threatens to corrupt the Earth again after 100 years. But how do you fight a shadow from Hell?
Genres: Science Fiction Fantasy Thriller Crime Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-31
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Auton
Overview: In a top-secret UNIT warehouse Dr Sally Arnold is studying a Nestene energy unit with little success. Until she subjects it to cosmic signals that activate it and it awakens several dormant Autons stored in the facility.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Eric & Ernie: Behind the Scenes
Overview: A history of the British television comedy double act Morecambe & Wise to coincide with the BBC drama about their early lives.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-01-01
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Peter Kay: 20 Years of Funny
Overview: Documentary looking at the career to date of Peter Kay, from Bolton schoolboy to award-winning, record-breaking comic, actor, writer and director.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-12-24
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Victoria Wood's Midlife Christmas
Overview: This is the time of year when friends and family gather round the television to exchange the traditional greeting -“Don’t bother, there’s nothing on”. Well this Christmas join Victoria Wood for her ‘Mid Life Christmas’ featuring highlights from the Mid Life Olympics 2009, with the most unlikely sporting events and a dance number that brings together the killer combo of midriff bulge. Victoria then dons a bonnet and corset, for the popular costume drama Lark Pies to Cranchesterford, and revel in the further adventures of soap star Bo Beaumont played by long term collaborator Julie Walters. DVD extras include the searing in-depth documentary (!) ‘What larks!’
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-12-24
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Burke & Hare
Overview: Two 19th-century opportunists become serial killers so that they can maintain their profitable business supplying cadavers to an anatomist.
Genres: Comedy Thriller History Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-10-29
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Bad Sugar
Overview: A dysfunctional, wealthy mining dynasty, with an ailing patriarch and some greedy siblings. A peculiarly British take on telenovela style melodramas, played for laughs.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-08-26
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Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
Overview: Gromit’s concern that Wallace is becoming too dependent on his inventions proves justified, when Wallace invents a “smart” gnome that seems to develop a mind of its own. When it emerges that a vengeful figure from the past might be masterminding things, it falls to Gromit to battle sinister forces and save his master… or Wallace may never be able to invent again!
Genres: Animation Comedy Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-12-18
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Overview: Mere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, Arthur Dent is swept off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher penning a new edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."
Genres: Adventure Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-04-28
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This Year's Love
Overview: The big-screen debut from Scottish stage director David Kane, This Year's Love is a comedy about the romantic misadventures of six young people in Camden, North London. The marriage of tattoo artist Danny (Douglas Hanshall) and dressmaker Hannah (Catherine McCormack) gets off to a less-than-inspiring start when Danny finds out Hannah has already been fooling around with a friend's husband, so Danny takes a walk and Hannah splits with a friend to get drunk. At the airport, where the newly-weds were supposed to leave for a honeymoon, Danny meets a cleaning woman named Mary (Kathy Burke) and is immediately infatuated, while Hannah is picked up by a scruffy artist named Cameron (Dougray Scott). Elsewhere, Liam (Ian Hart), a geeky comic-art enthusiast who shares an apartment with Cameron, finds romance with Sophie (Jennifer Ehle), a single mother and full-time neurotic.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-02-19
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Bob Monkhouse: The Last Stand
Overview: Summer 2003 and Bob Monkhouse entertains a room full of comedians with stand-up, chat and a comedy masterclass. It proved to be his final gig. The night became the stuff of legend among comedians, but was never transmitted until now.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-12-26
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The League of Gentlemen: Live at Drury Lane
Overview: The award-winning Black Comedy series takes to the stage of London's Theatre Royal Drury Lane.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-11-19
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Eric & Ernie
Overview: Single drama telling the story of Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise's formative years, from child stars to national treasures. 'Big head, short legs' is Eric Bartholomew's first impression of Ernie Wiseman, but their friendship endures and, encouraged by his well-meaning but determined mother Sadie, Eric became the funny man to Ernie's 'feed'. After a successful stint in children's variety, they work their way up the ladder of live performance, but after a disastrous television debut in the series Running Wild, Morecambe and Wise learn to trust their own instincts and just make people laugh.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-01-01
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The League of Gentlemen - Live Again!
Overview: The League of Gentlemen return to the stage for their first UK tour in over 12 years with their live show, featuring all the familiar faces from Royston Vasey.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-11-19
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Remembering 'Dead of Night'
Overview: Retrospective documentary on the British horror anthology classic Dead of Night (1945).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-02-24
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Tales of the Uncanny
Overview: A detailed look at the history of horror anthology films.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-10-31
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In the Earth
Overview: As a deadly virus ravages the world, Dr. Martin Lowery embarks on a mission to reach test site ATU327A, a research hub deep in the Arboreal Forest. The arduous journey, guided by park scout Alma, is set back by a nighttime attack that leaves the two bruised and shoeless. When they run into Zach, a man living off the grid, they gratefully accept his help. Zach’s intentions aren’t exactly what they seem, however, and a path out of the forest and into safety quickly fades as the line between myth and science blurs.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-04-16
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The League of Gentlemen Are Behind You!
Overview: The League of Gentlemen Are Behind You! is a pantomime-themed stage show by The League of Gentlemen. The whimsical, pantomime nature of the show was a departure from their trademark dark humour. This performance was filmed at the Hammersmith Apollo.
Genres: Comedy Music Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-11-20
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See How They Run
Overview: In the West End of 1950s London, plans for a movie version of a smash-hit play come to an abrupt halt after a pivotal member of the crew is murdered. When world-weary Inspector Stoppard and eager rookie Constable Stalker take on the case, the two find themselves thrown into a puzzling whodunit within the glamorously sordid theater underground, investigating the mysterious homicide at their own peril.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-09-09
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Highgate House of Horror
Overview: Before they reached success, comedy team The League of Gentlemen made this home made comedy horror; Three horror stories all set in a flat in Highgate.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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The Devil of Winterborne
Overview: When P.R.O.B.E. is summoned to investigate the savage murder of a retired headmaster, Liz Shaw is disturbed to find evidence of satanic rite near the scene of the crime. She soon discovers a web of deceit and corruption that extends back in time, threatening the current occupants of nearby Winterborne School. With P.R.O.B.E. under threat from within and the death toll mounting, Liz finds herself under increasing pressure from all sides to produce results... The Devil of Winterborne is at large and only Liz can stop it!
Genres: Crime Horror Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-08-01
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Investigating the Ladykillers
Overview: Program focuses on the lasting appeal and cinematic brilliance of The Ladykillers. Included in it are clips from interviews with broadcaster and author Stuart Maconie, film editor Catherine Shoard, actor and writer Reece Shearsmith, and author Ronald Harwood, amongst others.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-11-09
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Don't Crash: The Documentary of the Making of the Movie of the Book of the Radio Series of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'
Overview: An in-depth examination of the complete production of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-05
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Inside No. 9: Dead Line
Overview: When Arthur Flitwick finds an old mobile phone in his local graveyard, he makes the mistake of trying to contact the owner, but some mysteries are best left unsolved and as Halloween draws near Arthur is plunged into a nightmare of his own making.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-10-28
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Inside No. 9: The Party's Over
Overview: This documentary tells the story of one of TV’s darkest and most celebrated comedies, featuring cast interviews and extensive candid moments with creators Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton. Cameras are admitted everywhere throughout the making of the show’s final series, from the writers’ room to the makeup trailer, from prop store to set design, making this the perfect farewell to the multi-award winning series.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-12-22
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