David Battley
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Was a British actor of stage and screen, mainly appearing in comedy roles.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Clapham, London, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: November 05, 1935
Age: 89 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: January 20, 2003
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Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Overview: When eccentric candy man Willy Wonka promises a lifetime supply of sweets and a tour of his chocolate factory to five lucky kids, penniless Charlie Bucket seeks the golden ticket that will make him a winner.
Genres: Family Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-06-29
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Krull
Overview: A prince and a fellowship of companions set out to rescue his bride from a fortress of alien invaders who have arrived on their home planet.
Genres: Action Adventure Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-07-29
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Another Day, Another Dollar
Overview: A new steward on a large passenger liner finds himself subject to "charges" levied by the senior bar steward.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-03-08
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That's Your Funeral
Overview: Two funeral parlours fight one another for business, one of whom is more shady than the other.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-12-01
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Hotel Paradiso
Overview: Monsieur Feydeau has writer's block, and he needs a new play. But he takes an opportunity to observe the upper class of 1900 Paris - Monsieur Boniface with a domineering wife, and the next-door neglectful husband Henri with a beautiful but ignored wife, Marcelle. Henri traces architectural anomalies (most ghost sounds are drains) and plans a night at the Hotel Paradiso, but this hotel is the assignation spot of Marcelle and Boniface. One wife, two husbands, a nephew, and the perky Boniface maid, all at this 'by the hour' hotel and consummation of the affair is, to say the least, severely compromised (not the least by a police raid). All of this is under Feydeau's eye, and his play is the 'success fou' of the next season.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-03-01
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The London Connection
Overview: A missing formula, a defecting Eastern European scientist kidnapped, car chases, foot chases, air chases, the British secret service, and a couple of American tourists caught right in the middle.
Genres: Adventure Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-21
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The Franchise Trail
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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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The Old Curiosity Shop
Overview: A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of dusty treasures. Evicted and with no way to pay his debts, he and his granddaughter flee.
Genres: Comedy Drama History Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-11-07
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The Waiters
Overview: Hill plays a caterer who gets drunk on the job and proceeds to make a disaster of a middle class couple's dinner party.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-10-29
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Vigo
Overview: Based on the life of a classic french cineast Jean Vigo, the story follows his daily struggle with sanity, normal life and uncompromising filmmaking. Story also focuses on his relationship with his supporting wife whom he met in sanatorium.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-14
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S.O.S. Titanic
Overview: The Titanic disaster as seen through the eyes of one couple in each of the three classes on board.
Genres: History Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-02-29
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The All New Adventures of Mr Blobby
Overview: He's back! Everyone's favourite big, bouncy, big blob (well how many do you know?) In his new guises, Mr Blobby is a complete hoot, hilariously bumping, bashing and bruising his way through life.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-02-05
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Thark
Overview: Farce in which the nouveau riche Mrs Frush buys Thark, a large country house, from Sir Hector Benbow but then complains that the house is haunted. An assortment of characters go to the house to investigate.
Genres: Comedy Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-11-05
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Alice in Wonderland
Overview: Alice in Wonderland (1966) is a BBC television play based on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. It was directed by Jonathan Miller, then most widely known for his appearance in the long-running satirical revue Beyond the Fringe.
Genres: Family Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-12-28
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The Snow Queen
Overview: The Devil makes a mirror -and it shatters.This is the story of what happens to little Kay when one of the pieces finds its way through his eye and into his heart. The powers of evil are unleashed ... the Summer Garden Witch - the Robbers in the Wood - but above all - the mysterious elemental figure of The Snow Queen. Only Gerda - Kay's friend - helped by birds and animals - has the power to overcome them all.
Genres: Fantasy Animation TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-25
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Don't Just Lie There, Say Something!
Overview: Based on the hit play. A British Government Minister puts forward a bill to battle filth in the UK but that doesn't stop him having an affair with both his secretary, Miss Parkyn and Wendy, the wife of a high-up reporter. Opponents to the bill - mainly some hippy girls, lead by Johnny, kidnap the Minister's best friend and co-founder of the bill, Barry Ovis just as he was getting married to his fiancee, Joan. Barry escapes, just before the police raid the hippies hiding place - to claim that Ovis was in a orgy and get the bill defeated - and dashes back to his and Joan's flat followed by Inspector Ruff, who is investigating the kidnap and Damina, one of the hippies. Meanwhile, the Minister is also trying to use the flat to carry on his affairs with both Wendy and Miss Parkyn. The Minister, Barry & Joan tries to keep the truth from Ruft, Wilfred Potts, an old and honest MP, Birdie, the Minister's wife and stop the hippies, and this causes no end of trouble.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-10-17
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Crossplot
Overview: A successful London ad-exec hires a beautiful Hungarian girl to pose for some modeling shots, little realising that she has overheard an assassination plot and is now being hunted by some dangerous killers.
Genres: Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-11-25
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Rentadick
Overview: Armitage runs a chemical company that is on the verge of producing a gas that causes temporary disability. Clearly the military want it but it is also sought by a group of Japanese. Both Armitage and Madam Greenfly hire different people in the same detective agency to guard the gas and steal it respectively... confusion, double crosses and hilarity ensue...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-12-31
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The Museum Attendant
Overview: Michael Abbensetts’ first play for TV is a powerful, funny and shocking exposé of the racism faced by a black museum attendant in his place of work.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-08-02
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