Ron Moody
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Biography: Ron Moody was born on 8 January 1924 in Tottenham, Middlesex, England, UK. He was an actor and author, known for Oliver! (1968), Twelve Chairs (1970) and The little ones also want to move up (1963). He was married to Therese Blackbourn. He died on 11 June 2015 in London, England, UK.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: January 08, 1924
Age: 101 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: June 11, 2015
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Murder Most Foul
Overview: A murderer is brought to court and only Miss Marple is unconvinced of his innocence. Once again she begins her own investigation.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-03-01
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The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It
Overview: John Cleese is hilarious as the descendant of Sherlock Holmes in this modern detective drama of international power politics and intrigue. Unlike his illustrious grandfather however, he only succeeds in bungling every job he organizes. Also stars Arthur Lowe as the "bionic" grandson of Dr. Watson, Stratford Johns as the Commissioner of Police, and Connie Booth as Mrs. Hudson.
Genres: Thriller Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-09-18
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Wrong Is Right
Overview: Political double-talk, dirty tricks, hidden microphones, spy satellites, bugging the Oval Office and a nuclear bomb for sale are all ingredients in this swift, funny and frightening look at the possibilities in today's political arenas. Sean Connery stars as TV Newsman Patrick Hale on an international chase to track two suitcase sized nuclear weapons and to uncover the twisting maze of apparent involvement of US Government agencies.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-04-16
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The Twelve Chairs
Overview: In 1920s Soviet Russia, a fallen aristocrat, a priest and a con artist search for a treasure of jewels hidden inside one of twelve dining chairs, lost during the revolution.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-10-28
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Legend of the Werewolf
Overview: A travelling circus in 19th century France adopts and showcases a feral "wolf boy", who grows into adulthood only to kill the one-man band. He runs off to Paris, where he develops a jealous, overprotective crush on a prostitute, leading him to attack her client, incurring a pursuit by a determined police surgeon.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-08-06
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Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
Overview: Mel Brooks: Make a Noise journeys through Brooks’ early years in the creative beginnings of live television — with Sid Caesar on Your Show of Shows — to the film genres he so successfully satirized in Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, High Anxiety, and Spaceballs — to the groundbreaking Broadway musical version of his first film, The Producers. The documentary also delves into his professional and personal ups and downs — his childhood, his first wife and subsequent 41-year marriage to Anne Bancroft — capturing a never-before-heard sense of reflection and confession.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-05-20
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Oliver!
Overview: Musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, a classic tale of an orphan who runs away from the workhouse and joins up with a group of boys headed by the Artful Dodger and trained to be pickpockets by master thief Fagin.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-09-26
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Unidentified Flying Oddball
Overview: A NASA spacecraft proves Einstein right when, traveling faster than light, it ends up near King Arthur's Camelot. On board are big-hearted Tom Trimble and Hermes, the look-alike robot he built. Tom immediately makes friends with pretty Alisande while becoming enemies with the evil knight Sir Mordred. It seems Mordred has joined up with the Sorcerer Merlin and they are both up to no good. It is now up to Tom to try and use 20th century technology to foil their plans.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-07-19
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The Mouse on the Moon
Overview: Sequel to The Mouse that Roared; The Tiny Country of Grand Fenwick has a hot water problem in the castle. To get the money necessary to put in a new set of plumbing, they request foreign aid from the U.S. for Space Research. The Russians then send aid as well to show that they too are for the internationalization of space. While the grand Duke is dreaming of hot baths, their one scientist is slapping together a rocket. The U.S. and Soviets get wind of the impending launch and try and beat them to the moon.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-05-07
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Flight of the Doves
Overview: While fleeing across the Irish countryside, two orphans are pursued by their villainous uncle, a master of disguises.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-04-02
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Moussaka & Chips
Overview: Getaway driver Miles Foster is placed in witness protection after the murder of his friend Andres by Astin Brody, a shady underworld boss. Miles is hidden on the Greek Island of Zanthi with a recently graduated female MI6 officer, Charlotte Green. Shalom Godsall, Brody's disgruntled number two, has recommended two Irish assassins take out Miles, much to their surprise as a father and son assassin team they h ave a terrible track record. Godsall, however, is working with American secret service to oust his rival Astin Brody and take the top job. Nothing is going to plan; the assassins have found their target and are getting close. Miles and Charlotte are not getting on at all and the special relationship between the British and American secret service is at breaking point.
Genres: Crime Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-11-13
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David Copperfield
Overview: A made for TV movie of the Charles Dickens' classic novel, turns Dickens' picaresque tale into an extended flashback, with David Copperfield Robin Phillips as a young man, brooding on a deserted beach, recalling his youth. The characters are all trotted out in choppy flashbacks as David remembers his life as a young orphan, brought to London and passed around from relatives, to guardians, to boarding school.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-01
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Dominique
Overview: The wife of a greedy man comes back to haunt him after he scares her to death.
Genres: Drama Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-06
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Where Is Parsifal?
Overview: Tucked away in his castle, a hypochondriac inventor plays generous host to a revolving cast of wacky guests. But to pay off his mounting debts, he must sell either a powerful businessman or a rich gypsy on his latest creation: a laser skywriter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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San Ferry Ann
Overview: A motley crew of British characters ride The San Ferry Ann to the shores of France where they embark on a weekend of calamity. The campervan family led by Dad and Mum (David Lodge and Joan Sims) create chaos from the moment they set their tires on the shore resulting in frequent run-ins with the Gendarme, while Lewd Grandad (Wilfred Brambell) finds his own misadventures with a newly acquainted friend, a mad German ex-soldier (Ron Moody). Also aboard for the ride is a saucy hitchhiker (Barbara Windsor) who causes a few heads to turn including that of a fellow traveller (Ronnie Stevens) who pursues her affection with comic results. By the end of this weekend the French may well be wishing to say 'au revoir' to these trouble-making tourists. San Ferry Ann is a humorous take on the tradition of the British get-away. A classic sound effect comedy that sits with the likes of similarly praised titles such as 'The Plank', 'Futtock's End' and 'Rhubarb Rhubarb'.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-07-01
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Othello
Overview: Adaptation of Shakespeare's play.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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Dogpound Shuffle
Overview: A man who has lost his beloved pet dog enlists the help of a young drifter in finding the animal. This leads to a series of misadventures, including a confrontation with a hulking dog-pound worker and a stint providing the entertainment at a millionaire's party.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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Every Day's a Holiday
Overview: A group of teenagers take jobs at a holiday camp for the summer and enter a TV talent show
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-07-14
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Ladies Who Do
Overview: The "Ladies Who Do" are office cleaners. One of them discovers some hot stock tips and they make a fortune. They then make good use of it to save their old neighbourhoods from the wicked developer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-11-01
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A Kid in King Arthur's Court
Overview: A Southern California kid named Calvin Fuller is magically transported to the medieval kingdom of Camelot through a crack in the ground caused by an earthquake. Once there, he learns he was summoned by the wizard Merlin, who needs Calvin to save Camelot. Using dazzling modern inventions, can Calvin help King Arthur retain his crown and thwart the evil Lord Belasco?
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-08-11
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Dial M for Murder
Overview: A London businessman concocts an intricate plan to murder his unfaithful wife for her money.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-04-09
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Who's a Good Boy Then? I Am!
Overview: The uneasy relationship between elderly couple Thora Hird and Ron Moody and a cheerful stranger who moves in with them (Ronald Lacey). Written by Richard Harris (not the actor, but the future creator of Man in a Suitcase
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-02-09
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Is That Your Body, Boy
Overview: Follows a PE teacher, whose attempt to impress the need for self-control on his pupils verges on the sadistic.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-05-09
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Revelation
Overview: Since A.D. 50, a mysterious sacred artifact known as the Loculus has been at the center of a bloody clandestine war. Missing for a few hundred years, the puzzling relic has suddenly reappeared in the present day, bringing with it a terrible secret that could spell doom for all of mankind. Now it's up to Magnus Martel to subvert a murderous secret society and uncover the truth behind the ancient treasure.
Genres: Fantasy Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-04-12
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Alice Through the Looking Box
Overview: A Christmas TV special in which Alice does not go through a looking glass, but through a TV set.
Genres: TV Movie Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-12-25
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Follow a Star
Overview: Norman Truscott is a store worker who dreams of stardom. Vernon Carew is a singer whose star is fading. Vernon manages to get a recording of Norman singing and passes it off as himself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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Benji's Very Own Christmas Story
Overview: While on a publicity tour in Switzerland, Benji, Cindy Smith, and Patsy Garrett convince Kris Kringle that his place on Christmas Eve is delivering presents to all "his" families all over the world.
Genres: TV Movie Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-07
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The Sandwich Man
Overview: A man with a sandwich-board (advert) wanders around London meeting many strange characters.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-07-01
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Bing Crosby's Merrie Olde Christmas
Overview: Bing Crosby and his family spend Christmas at the estate of a distant relative in England.
Genres: Music Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-11-30
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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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Emily's Ghost
Overview: Emily, a young Edwardian girl stifled by the constraints put on the women of her time, moves with her family to the ancestral home in the country, and begins to see the ghost of another girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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How's Business
Overview: During World War II a young city boy is evacuated to the country.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-12
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A Sense of Carol Reed
Overview: The film director, Carol Reed, is the subject of this documentary short. The illegitimate son of the famous stage actor, 'Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree' , Reed was brilliant with actors, especially child actors, making him the perfect person to bring Oliver! to the screen. Reed is best known for three films he made in the late 1940s, and the documentary offers generous clips from Odd Man Out, The Fallen Idol, and the most famous of all, The Third Man. The film director, John Boorman, the assistant director, Guy Hamilton, the actors, Ron Moody and Bryan Forbes and the cinematographer, Oswald Morris, are among the interviewees.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-11-07
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A Pair of Briefs
Overview: She's new in chambers, and he's a troublemaker. But what 'is' the true status of the old lady's wartime marriage, and can the two young legal minds find the answer?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-03-01
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The Rise and Fall of Nellie Brown
Overview: A delightful Christmas musical about a young Jamaican woman who flees her humdrum Liverpool lodgings in search of her glamorous London cousin. Broadcast live on 28 December 1964, this rare TV musical is one of few to have survived from the 1960s. A tale of Afro-Caribbean immigration, the show is unusual for its time in that it doesn't labour the issues around racial tensions in Britain, but simply celebrates Christmas and family.
Genres: Drama Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-12-28
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A Ghost in Monte Carlo
Overview: A chance meeting between British nobleman and lovely young Mistral foils a plot by her manipulating Aunt Emilie to avenge the death of her sister, Mistral's mother, who died in childbirth. But when an unscrupulous blackmailer and a rapacious Rajah enter the plot, the growing attraction between Lord and convent girl becomes yet more fraught with Danger.
Genres: Romance History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-04-02
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Rocky Marciano Is Dead
Overview: Boxing's lost its soul. The noble art is now big business, and Harry's a has-been manager. But his dream remains-to find a champion, a new Louis, a new Marciano.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-09-28
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Lost Dogs
Overview: New age travelers kidnap the prized dog of a Bristol Antiques dealer, with dire consequences.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-06-01
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Davy
Overview: The Mad Morgans are a family song and dance act touring the British Music Halls. Young Davy is the star of the act but should he stay with his family or strike out on his own ? The last comedy to be produced at Ealing Studios.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-01-02
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The Caucasian Chalk Circle
Overview: The hardships faced by a woman trying to survive a bloody civil war while caring for the abandoned child of the deposed former ruler.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Five Golden Hours
Overview: A petty crook gallantly consoles wealthy widows and is doing all right in his chosen profession until he meets and falls in love with a lovely baroness, who knows all about get-rich-quick schemes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-02-01
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