Robert Stephens
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Biography: Sir Robert Stephens (14 July 1931 – 12 November 1995) was a leading English actor in the early years of England's Royal National Theatre. He was one of the most respected actors of his generation and was at one time regarded as the natural successor to Laurence Olivier. While very acting on stage his whole life, he also participated in more than 100 theatrical films and TV series episodes. He was married to actress Maggie Smith between 1967 and 1974. They had two children together, who both have become actors: Toby Stephens and Chris Larkin. Following years of ill health, he died on 12 November 1995 at the age of 64 due to complications during surgery, eleven months after having been knighted. Description above partly from the Wikipedia article Robert Stephens, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Bristol, England, UK
Birthday: July 14, 1931
Deathday: November 12, 1995
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Gender: Male
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Anyone for Denis
Overview: Anyone for Denis? is a British video-taped television version of the stage play of the same name broadcast by the ITV network on 28 December 1982. The original play, first performed at the Whitehall Theatre in 1981, was written by satirist John Wells.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-12-28
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The Search for Alexander the Great
Overview: Friends, contemporaries and even enemies of Alexander the Great gather in a tent to tell his tale through their eyes.
Genres: Documentary History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-05-06
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Overview: A headstrong young teacher in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable 12-year-old charges with her over-romanticized worldview.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-02-24
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Travels with My Aunt
Overview: At his mother's funeral, stuffy bank clerk Henry Pulling meets his Aunt Augusta, an elderly eccentric with more-than-shady dealings who pulls him along on a whirlwind adventure as she attempts to rescue an old lover.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-12-17
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The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
Overview: Holmes and Dr. Watson take on the case of a beautiful woman whose husband has vanished. The investigation proves strange indeed, involving six missing midgets, villainous monks, a Scottish castle, the Loch Ness monster, and covert naval experiments.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Crime Adventure History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-10-29
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Romeo and Juliet
Overview: Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet fall in love against the wishes of their feuding families. Driven by their passion, the young lovers defy their destiny and elope, only to suffer the ultimate tragedy.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-04-02
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A Taste of Honey
Overview: While out to avoid spending time with her narcissistic and promiscuous mother, sixteen-year-old Jo has a brief affair that leaves her pregnant and abandoned. When her mother remarries, Jo's only support becomes her friend Geoffrey, a homosexual.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-10-01
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Searching for Bobby Fischer
Overview: A seven-year-old chess prodigy refuses to harden himself in order to become a champion like the famous but unlikable Bobby Fischer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-08-13
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Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment
Overview: Morgan, an aggressive and self-admitted dreamer, a fantasist who uses his flights of fancy as refuge from external reality, where his unconventional behavior lands him in a divorce from his wife, Leonie, trouble with the police and, ultimately, incarceration in a lunatic asylum.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-04-03
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Chaplin
Overview: An aged Charlie Chaplin narrates his life to his autobiography's editor, including his rise to wealth and comedic fame from poverty, his turbulent personal life and his run-ins with the FBI.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-17
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The Asphyx
Overview: Hugo is a brilliant turn-of-the-century scientist, loved and respected by his family and friends, admired by his colleagues. But he is a man quickly becoming obsessed with a curious and frightening question... what is the mysterious apparition found in the photographs of his dying subjects?
Genres: Fantasy Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-12-05
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Ada in the Jungle
Overview: A dying man Lord Gordon asks his niece Ada to find his son in Africa whom he left many years ago.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-09-28
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At Night All Cats Are Crazy
Overview: Playwright Charles Watson entertains his niece Lily by telling her about the adventures of Philibert.Both these people have something to do with Philibert.
Genres: Drama Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-11-23
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The Duellists
Overview: In 1800, as Napoleon Bonaparte rises to power in France, a rivalry erupts between Armand and Gabriel, two lieutenants in the French Army, over a perceived insult. For over a decade, they engage in a series of duels amidst larger conflicts, including the failed French invasion of Russia in 1812, and shifts in the political and social systems of Europe.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-08-31
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Luther
Overview: One sixteenth-century clergyman's view breaks the Catholic Church apart.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-21
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Henry V
Overview: In the midst of the Hundred Years War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-10-05
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The Small World of Sammy Lee
Overview: The compère of a seedy strip club struggles to keep one step ahead of the bookies to whom he owes money.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-04-20
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Lunch Hour
Overview: A young female designer is on the brink of an affair with a married male executive at the company where she works. The film tells the story of their illicit lunch hour rendezvous.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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Pirates of Tortuga
Overview: After a lengthy voyage, Capt. Bart docks his ship in a London harbor and is given a new mission by British Admiralty: capture the notorious Henry Morgan, a pirate who has been wreaking havoc throughout the Caribbean. After recruiting some former shipmates for his crew, Capt. Bart sets sail in search of the infamous buccaneer, and is joined by a beautiful female stowaway in the process.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-08-25
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30 Door Key
Overview: A young writer in 1939 Warsaw faces the conflict of acting his age or relapsing into childhood during the brink of World War II. Based on the famous novel Ferdydurke by Witold Gombrowicz.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-02
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High Season
Overview: On the isle of Rhodes, Katherine, an expatriate English photographer, lives with her daughter. A young local wants to encourage tourism, so he commissions a sculpture of the Unknown Tourist for the town square; the sculptor he brings to Rhodes is Kate's ex-husband. Also there to see Kate is Sharp, an aging antiquarian and her dear friend. He has something important to tell her. As Kate, her ex, and Sharp sort out things that go back years, two English tourists bumble about, one thinking he's fallen in love with Kate, his wife thinking she's found her own lover. A rare vase, a spy, old friendships, the statue's unveiling, and off-hand English sorting-out play into the resolution.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-01
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Lorna Doone
Overview: A feisty 17th-century Scotswoman falls in love with a despised landowner, to the dismay of her father.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-26
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The Inspector
Overview: At the end of WW2, a compassionate Dutch policeman helps smuggle a Jewish woman into British Palestine.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-05-24
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The Games of Countess Dolingen
Overview: This complex and puzzling French drama walks the fine wavering line between the fictional and the very real as it tells the tale of a strangely erotic event in the life of a little girl and the musings of a schizophrenic woman. Also involved is an enigmatic spouse who prepares a surprise for a burglar.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-09-01
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The Queen's Guards
Overview: Captains John Fellows and Henry Wynne-Walton finish their Army training at Sandhurst Military Academy and are sent to the Middle-East. John is to lead a parachute battalion while Henry is put in charge of a platoon of armoured cars of the Household Cavalry. John is constantly being told by his father, an ex-Guards officer that he is not as good as his brother who was killed during the war.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-10-17
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American Roulette
Overview: Carlos Quintas, the democratically-elected president of an unnamed South American country, has been deposed by a military coup. He is in London, the head of a government in exile, rallying international support. He is also a poet of talent and reputation, in love with Kate, his assistant, who has a secret of her own and keeps Carlos at a distance. The generals have a team of professionals in London bent on kidnap and assassination. Hovering around Carlos are two Russians, who may be KGB, an American book publisher, who may be CIA, an elusive Brit, probably from her majesty's secret service, and his own few supporters. Is Carlos doomed? Whom can he trust?
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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One Fine Day
Overview: Alan Bennett's play about the mid-life crisis of an estate agent.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-02-17
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The Secret Rapture
Overview: Upon her father's death, a woman comes into emotional and psychological conflict with her young lover, her overbearing sister and her alcoholic stepmother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-12
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Circle of Deception
Overview: Unbeknownst to him, a soldier is sent on a doomed mission because of the high likelihood of him divulging secrets if captured and tortured.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-11-01
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Empire of the Sun
Overview: Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured with an American sailor, who looks out for him while they are in the camp together. Even though he is separated from his parents and in a hostile environment, Jamie maintains his dignity and youthful spirit, providing a beacon of hope for the others held captive with him.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-09
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Birth of a Nation
Overview: A new teacher at a highly problematic comprehensive school feels that corporal punishment may just be inflaming the problems, and so begins to campaign against it.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-06-19
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Wings of Fame
Overview: A famous movie actor claims that he has written a book. As result, a real author, not a very well known writer, vengefully kills him but then dies as a result of an accident. Next, they both find themselves in after-life, where souls of all famous people are gathered.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-03-23
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Century
Overview: Turn-of-the-century love story centered around a young doctor and the emergence of modern science.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-12-31
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Adam Bede
Overview: Rich and languorous, this adaptation of George Eliot's classic tale perfectly evokes rural England in the 18th Century. But beneath the tranquil surface of this pastoral idyll run deep passions and the bitter gall of betrayal.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-03-01
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Much Ado About Nothing
Overview: Dame Maggie Smith stars in the 1967 screen version of Franco Zeffirelli's exuberant National Theatre production of Shakespeare's romantic comedy, in which young lovers Hero and Claudio conspire to make sharp-tongued rivals Beatrice and Benedick fall in love with each other.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-02-05
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The Fruit Machine
Overview: Eddie and Michael are two 16-year-old gay friends from Liverpool. Berated by his father for his camp behavior, Eddie runs away from his Liverpool home and joins Michael, a streetwise hustler, who is also on the run.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-04
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Overview: Mistaken identity, unrequited love, and the supernatural are combined in Shakespeare's classic set in the woods of Greece on a moonlit night.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-09-26
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Ten Days That Shook the World
Overview: An epic presentation of the turbulent days leading to the Russian Revolution. Based on the classic work by John Reed, this important documentary makes use of rare footage and little-known information, stirringly narrated by Orson Welles.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Horizontal Hold
Overview: A woman writes a book about sex and marriage and it becomes a best seller.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-05-27
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Puccini
Overview: In Torre del Lago, by Lake Massaciuccoli, Puccini is writing "The Girl of the Golden West" when his wife Elvira accuses him of a dalliance with their maid, Doria Manfredi, a young women from town. Although the maestro is frequently unfaithful, he denies the affair; Elvira insists she's right and publicly hounds Doria. Between scenes in this domestic drama that turns tragic, we watch a Scottish company rehearse and stage "Turandot," Puccini's last opera. The film finds parallels between the two stories and suggests that in the opera, Puccini expresses love for his wife and guilt in Doria's fate. Three local gentlemen provide a spoken chorus as Puccini's score plays throughout.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Julius Caesar
Overview: The play by William Shakespeare.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-04-13
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The Children
Overview: Rose Sellars is a middle-aged woman who falls in love with a widower. However, his children believe that their father is too old to start a new relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-05-18
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Afraid of the Dark
Overview: A little boy, obsessed with blindness and violence, slowly gets trapped in his own delusions.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-10
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England, My England
Overview: The story of Henry Purcell.
Genres: History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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The Winter's Tale
Overview: The jealous King Leontes falsely accuse his wife Hermione of infidelity with his best friend, and she dies. Leontes exiles his newborn daughter Perdita, who is raised by shepherds for sixteen years and falls in love with the son of Leontes' friend. When Perdita returns home, a statue of Hermione "comes to life", and everyone is reconciled.
Genres: Romance Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-02-08
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Cleopatra
Overview: Determined to hold on to the throne, Cleopatra seduces the Roman emperor Julius Caesar. When Caesar is murdered, she redirects her attentions to his general, Marc Antony, who vows to take power—but Caesar’s successor has other plans.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-06-12
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Ill Fares the Land
Overview: The story of the last two years the inhabitants of the islands of St Kilda (far off the west coast of Scotland) spent there, before being evacuated at their own request. This film, originally shown at the London Film Festival, marked the screen debut of writer and director Bill Bryden, who made his theatre reputation directing at the Glasgow Citizens' Theatre and the National Theatre. In persuasive style.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-11-01
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The Pope Must Die
Overview: A less-than-qualified and far-from-perfect priest is mistakenly named the new pope. As the pontiff, he must deal with Vatican corruption, the Mob and the reappearance of his old lover.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-06-21
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Comrades
Overview: The story of "The Tolpuddle Martyrs". A group of 19th century English farm labourers who formed one of the first trade unions and started a campaign to receive fair wages.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-08-23
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The Shout
Overview: A traveller by the name of Crossley forces himself upon a musician and his wife in a lonely part of Devon, and uses the aboriginal magic he has learned to displace his host.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-06-16
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The Executioner
Overview: Jan and Meg Citron are on holiday in Germany. Their car is stopped by the police. A simple traffic offence? But their seemingly innocent past is ripped open and life will never be the same again.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-04-17
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Nothing Like a Dame
Overview: BBC Arena's documentary on the Dames of British Theatre and film featuring Maggie Smith, Elieen Atkins, Judi Dench and Joan Plowright on screen together for the first time as they reminisce over a long summer weekend in a house Joan once shared with Sir Laurence Olivier.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-05-02
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The Bonfire of the Vanities
Overview: After his mistress runs over a black teen, a Wall Street hotshot sees his life unravel in the spotlight; A down-and-out reporter breaks the story and opportunists clamber to use it to their advantage.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-21
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Hesther for Example
Overview: Cousin, W. Clifford Mill, ran a dirty postcard business; which brings Paul to the country in search of a profitable afternoon. Hesther knows the value of most things and, when evening falls, she turns his visit to her own advantage.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-02-16
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