Kika Markham
Also Known As: Erika S.L. "Kika" Markham, Erika S.L. Markham
Biography: Erika S.L. "Kika" Markham (born 1940) is an English actress. Markham is a daughter of actor David Markham and writer Olive Dehn (1914–2007). She has three sisters: Petra, Sonia and Jehane Markham. Markham has had a long career in the cinema, television and theatre as an actress. Among her television appearances are roles in Edward & Mrs. Simpson, The Life and Times of David Lloyd George, A Very British Coup, Van der Valk, The Line of Beauty, Minder, Cracker, Agatha Christie's Poirot (The Double Clue), Sherlock Holmes' Wisteria Lodge and Mr Selfridge. Her films include Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965), Futtocks End (1970), François Truffaut's Two English Girls (1971), Operation Daybreak (1975), Noroît (1976), The Blood of Hussain (1980), High Tide (1980), Outland (1981, as Sean Connery's wife), The Innocent (1985), Wonderland (1999), Esther Kahn (2000), Killing Me Softly (2002) and Franklyn (2008). Markham married actor Corin Redgrave in Wandsworth, London, in 1985. The couple have two sons, Harvey (b. 1979) and Arden (b. 1983). Markham and Redgrave appeared together twice on screen: first in Lynda La Plante's Trial and Retribution (2000) as a judge and barrister, respectively; and later in the BBC's Waking The Dead (episode "Special Relationship: Part 1") as lovers suspected of the murder of a government advisor. They also appeared on stage together in an acclaimed revival of Noël Coward's A Song at Twilight, along with sister-in-law Vanessa Redgrave. Her sisters are the actress Petra Markham; the poet and dramatist Jehane Markham, widow of actor Roger Lloyd-Pack; and Sonia.[citation needed] In April 2020, she appeared in an episode of the BBC soap opera Doctors as Grace Wilson. Markham's memoir of her husband, Our Time of Day: My Life with Corin Redgrave, was published in 2014.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Macclesfield, Cheshire, England, UK
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Outland
Overview: An honest marshal in a corrupt mining colony on Io, Jupiter's sunless third moon, is determined to confront a violent drug ring even though it may cost him his life. After his wife angrily deserts him, he waits alone for the arrival of killers hired by the company to eliminate him.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-05-22
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Coup
Overview: A documentary film about the 1960, 1971, 1980, and 1997 military interventions and coups d'etat in Turkey.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1999-11-23
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Futtocks End
Overview: Entirely silent, with a musical score, sound effects and incoherent mutterings, the story revolves around a weekend gathering at the decaying country home of the eccentric and lewd General Futtock (Ronnie Barker) and the series of saucy mishaps between the staff (Michael Hordern plays the lecherous butler) and his guests.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-02-01
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Franklyn
Overview: Set between the parallel worlds of contemporary London and the futuristic faith dominated metropolis of Meanwhile City, Franklyn weaves a tale of four souls, whose lives are intertwined by fate, romance and tragedy. As these worlds collide, a single bullet determines the destiny of these four characters.
Genres: Fantasy Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-16
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Wonderland
Overview: There's little wonder in the working-class lives of Bill, Eileen, and their three grown daughters. They're lonely Londoners. Nadia, a cafe waitress, places personal ads, looking for love; Debbie, a single mom, entertains men at the hair salon after hours; her son spends part of the weekend with her ex, a man with a hair-trigger temper. Molly is expecting her first baby and its father acts as if the responsibility is too much for him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-05-13
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Two English Girls
Overview: At the beginning of the 20th century, Claude Roc, a young middle-class Frenchman, befriends Ann, an Englishwoman. While spending time in England with Ann’s family, Claude falls in love with her sister Muriel, but both families lay down a year-long separation without contact before they may marry.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-11-18
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Edward & Mrs. Simpson
Overview: While still the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII meets the married American socialite, Wallis Simpson. Their relationship causes furor in the palace and in parliament, especially when King George V dies, Mrs. Simpson gets divorced, and King Edward announces his intentions to marry her.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-11-06
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Miss A and Miss M
Overview: Young Lizzie Cole and her newly widowed mother go to stay in the country at a small guesthouse occupied by spinsters, retired schoolmasters and young schoolmistresses. Lizzie becomes quite fond of two particular schoolmistresses who live together in a small cottage. Their lifestyle and living arrangement is a constant source of interest and challenge for Lizzie. However, what she ends up experiencing is beyond the comprehension of a young girl. The story of Miss A And Miss M is a very sensitively performed portrayal of the boundaries of love and friendship.
Genres: Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-09-11
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Noroît
Overview: After her brother was killed by a notorious all-female pirate gang, Morag dedicates her life to bringing the murderers to justice. Soon, she has become an important member of the pirate gang and has begun acquiring the loyalty of key members. Eventually, she makes her move and challenges the leader, a demi-god, known as "The Daughter of the Sun."
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-11-17
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Bukovsky
Overview: Alan Clarke's documentary about Soviet writer and dissident Vladimir Bukovsky, who had left the Soviet Union in 1976 after years spent in their prisons and psychiatric wards. The film was completed in 1977 but never broadcast, subject only to private screenings. The documentary appears publicly for the first time as a special feature of the BFI's 'Dissent and Disruption: Alan Clarke at the BBC (1969-1989)' box set, alongside 50 minutes of outtakes.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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Arms and the Man
Overview: First produced on the London stage in 1894, "Arms and the Man" immediately established Shaw's reputation as one of the greatest wits in London drama. This beautifully remastered BBC production brings to life an uproarious comedy that still resonates in its critique of warfare and romance.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-04-16
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Cross Now
Overview: In Cross Now, during a blazing row with his boss, strangely enough architect Michael Ponsford still gets his promotion. However, he does not get much time to enjoy it, because, in the middle of the argument, his boss suffers a heart attack. And he is not the only one to die. Ponsford is haunted by death: the woman with whom he had been flirting for too long, his wife's father, one of his competitors, they all succumb. Finally, Ponsford's young son also dies.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-10-30
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Double Dare
Overview: Martin Ellis (Alan Dobie) is a blocked screenwriter who invites Helen, an actress (Kika Markham), to a hotel in central London to discuss an idea for a play he is writing with her in mind. As they discuss the play, Martin discovers that a businessman and an escort named Carol are sat at a nearby table and appear to be speaking lines from the as yet unwritten piece. Martin becomes anxious at what will eventually become of the girl, already knowing that the play will not have a happy resolution
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-04-06
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News from Nowhere
Overview: In 1880, William Morris travels with his family and friends, as they navigate the Thames en-route to Oxford. Their journey is punctuated by champagne breakfasts, musings on matters aesthetic and socialist, flashbacks to Rossetti and the Pre-Raphaelites, and glimpses of Morris stomping about Iceland.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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Michael Redgrave: My Father
Overview: Corin Redgrave presents a portrait of his father, Michael Redgrave, exploring his personality, nature and what he was like as a father. He uses family photographs and letters and his father's diaries and autobiography, and produces a picture of a complicated and troubled man who was bisexual, a heavy drinker and emotionally distant and cold as a father. Includes contributions from Vanessa and Lynn Redgrave and Rachel Kempson, as well as Harold Pinter and Diana Menuhin. Also contains clips from several of Michael Redgrave's films.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-07-13
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Dirty Filthy Love
Overview: A man's life falls apart as a result of his affliction with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Tourette's Syndrome in this touching and funny tale.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-05-24
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Operation: Daybreak
Overview: Czechoslovakia, 1942. Three brave Czech patriots risk everything to rid their country of its brutal Nazi leader, SS-General Reinhard Heydrich.
Genres: Action War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-11-01
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Us & In Between
Overview: Two long-lost lovers in their 80s, Agnes and Eddie, reignite their flame against all odds with hilarious and touching consequences.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-08-15
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High Tide
Overview: Ian McShane stars as Peter Curtis, who has just been released from prison after serving four years for manslaughter. His victim's mysterious last words lead him on a frantic quest for answers in the tidal estuaries of the West of England, where he finds himself on a collision course with other parties who are as eager to solve the mystery as he is, and are seemingly even prepared to kill to find the answer.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-11
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The Old Oak
Overview: A pub landlord in a previously thriving mining community struggles to hold onto his pub. Meanwhile, tensions rise in the town when Syrian refugees are placed in the empty houses in the community.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-09-29
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A Woman at War
Overview: Helene Moskiewicz, a young Jewish woman living in pre-World War II Belgium, is forced to suffer through German occupation by watching her parents arrested and her life destroyed. To fight back, Regine joins the underground resistance movement and strikes the Nazis from within...by joining the infamous Gestapo.
Genres: Thriller Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-08-10
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Romeo and Juliet
Overview: BBC Play of the Month adaptation of Shakespeare's tragic love story.
Genres: Romance Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-03-12
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Blade on the Feather
Overview: A reclusive, elderly author is visited by a young admirer … but both men are more than they claim to be.
Genres: Action Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-19
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Einstein and Eddington
Overview: A look at the evolution of Albert Einstein's theory of relativity, and Einstein's relationship with British scientist Sir Arthur Eddington, the first physicist to understand his ideas.
Genres: History Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-11-29
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The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall
Overview: After Tom Hurndall is shot in the head in Gaza, his parents Anthony and Jocelyn arrive in Israel wanting to know how it could have happened. They expect sympathy and cooperation from the Israeli authorities, but are instead met with an official explanation that fails to tally with any eye-witness accounts, and a wall of silence. When an Israeli army report attempts to whitewash the incident, the Hurndalls decide the only way to establish the truth is to launch their own investigation into the shooting, a process which brings them face to face with both the Open-Fire regulations of the Israeli army in Gaza, and the soldier who pulled the trigger.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-13
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The Innocent
Overview: A young Yorkshire boy struggles to come to grips with squabbling parents, a doctor who wants to institutionalize him because of his epilepsy, and a mother who refuses to accept that he is different in any way – and that is only the half of it. The boy, Tim, also acts as a go-between for his friend Carns, who is having an affair with a married woman. Eventually, things start to sort themselves out, and Tim sees life getting more interesting when he and his friend Win slowly get a relationship going.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-03-18
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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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Killing Me Softly
Overview: A woman grows suspicious of her controlling husband after she discovers secrets about the women in his past.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-05-10
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After Tomorrow
Overview: Returning to the village of his estranged wife, James grows increasingly concerned when the sinister owner of the guest house refuses to let him leave.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-01-01
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The Blood of Hussain
Overview: A dramatic depiction of the life of Hussain, with allegorical references to the history of the Prophet Muhammad and his descendants. It is prophesied that Young Hussain will one day lead the impoverished masses to a better life. It is his brother, Hasan, however who gains in prominence and when the government is overthrown in a military coup, he tries to adapt. Hussain in the meanwhile gets married and leads a small band of rebels in an attempt to fight the military dictatorship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-08-16
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Longford
Overview: A portrait of Lord Longford, a tireless British campaigner whose controversial beliefs often resulted in furious political debate and personal conflict.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-10-26
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song
Overview: Ireland's bloody 1916 Easter Uprising, the suffragette movement in England, a Zeppelin raid, and a meeting with a rising young British cabinet member named Winston Churchill become vivid vignettes in Indy's life. So too do his brief but impassioned romances with the sister of a clandestine Irish rebel, and with an English suffragette for whom the vote comes before love.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-07-12
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High Strung Free Dance
Overview: Zander Raines, a dazzling and tempestuous young choreographer, gives the break of a lifetime to two hopeful artists when he casts a stunning contemporary dancer, Barlow, and innovative pianist, Charlie, in New York’s most-anticipated new Broadway show: Free Dance. But the move throws off the show’s delicate creative balance when Charlie falls hard for Barlow, while Zander embraces her as his muse.
Genres: Music Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-09-13
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Esther Kahn
Overview: A Jewish girl in 19th century London dreams of becoming a stage actress.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-10-04
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Sea Song
Overview: Millionaire recluse Ray Carter takes part in a single handed race across the Atlantic - but soon discovers a stowaway.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-09-10
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The Basement
Overview: An uneasy friendship between an introspective loner and a more gregarious man is renewed when the latter turns up at the former's basement flat one rainy night accompanied by an enigmatic, beautiful, mostly silent, girlfriend.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-02-20
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The Woman In White
Overview: Based upon Wilkie Collins Victorian mystery, the gothic tale tells of a pair of half sisters whose lives end up caught in a grand conspiracy revolving around a mentally ill woman dressed in white. As the story unfolds, murder, love, marriage, and greed stand between the two women and happy lives. Their only hope is the secret the woman in white waits to tell them.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Break
Overview: Following an initial misunderstanding between an older couple and a young family, fate takes a hand in bringing both parties closer together. One small act of kindness is then reciprocated by a very big one.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-05-01
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The Fever
Overview: Tells the story of a woman who gets involved in politics with no previous contact with world events.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-23
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