William Mervyn
Also Known As: William Mervyn Pickwoad
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. William Mervyn (3 January 1912 – 6 August 1976) was an English actor best known for his portrayal of the Bishop in the clerical comedy All Gas and Gaiters. Description above from the Wikipedia article William Mervyn, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Nairobi, Kenya
Adult: No
Birthday: January 03, 1912
Age: 113 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: August 06, 1976
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The Long Arm
Overview: Scotland Yard detectives attempt to solve a spate of safe robberies across England beginning with clues found at the latest burglary in London. The film is notable for using a police procedural style made popular by Ealing in their 1950 film The Blue Lamp. It is known in the US as The Third Key.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-06-01
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Murder Ahoy
Overview: During an annual board of trustees meeting, one of the trustees dies. Miss Marple thinks he’s been poisoned after finding a chemical on him. She sets off to investigate at the ship where he had just come from. The fourth and final film from the Miss Marple series starring Margaret Rutherford as the quirky amateur detective.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-09-22
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Carry On Follow That Camel
Overview: Bertram Oliphant 'Bo' West wants to clear his unjustly smeared reputation, so he joins the Foreign Legion—with Simpson his manservant in tow. But the fort they get posted to is full of eccentric legionnaires, and there's trouble brewing with the locals too. Unbeknown to Bo, his lady love has followed him in disguise.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-08-10
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Carry On Henry
Overview: Henry VIII has just married Marie of Normandy, and is eager to consummate their marriage. Unfortunately for Henry, she is always eating garlic, and refuses to stop. Deciding to get rid of her in his usual manner, Henry has to find some way of doing it without provoking war with Marie's cousin, the King of France. Perhaps if she had an affair...
Genres: Adventure Comedy History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-06-03
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Circus of Horrors
Overview: A plastic surgeon and his nurse join a bizarre circus to escape from the police. Here he befriends deformed women and transforms them for his "Temple of Beauty". However, when they threaten to leave, they meet with mysterious accidents.
Genres: Horror Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-04-01
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The Railway Children
Overview: After the enforced absence of their father, the three Waterbury children move with their mother to Yorkshire, where they find themselves involved in several unexpected dramas along the railway by their new home.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-12-21
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Up the Front
Overview: In Frankie Howerd's third Up... film it's World War I and he plays Lurk, an absolute cowerd, er coward. He's evading the call-up for all he's worth. But one evening he's hypnotised by a drunken hypnotist (Stanley Holloway) into being brave, but he fails to be released from it. So with his yellow streak gone Lurk is down that army office before you can say "titter ye not." Off to war he goes, mingling with sexy spies like Zsa Zsa Gabor and before long, the spellbound recruit is heading hot-foot back to Blighty with the Germans' plan of attack tattooed on his bum, and the Germans are bringing up the rear...! Full of sauce, knowing real-life references and witty remarks to camera, this is a cheeky incorrigible final instalment.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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Now Let Him Go
Overview: A world-class painter is taken ill and lies in the bedroom of an inn, while people down below squabble over his paintings and inheritance. The wily old man is unperturbed, even regarding the infernal trumpet sound which plays throughout.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-09-15
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Carry On Again Doctor
Overview: Dr. Nookey is disgraced and sent to a remote island hospital. He is given a secret slimming potion by a member of staff, Gladstone Screwer, and he flies back to England to fame and fortune. But others want to cash in on his good fortunes, and some just want him brought down a peg or two.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-05
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Blood Suckers
Overview: A group of friends search for a young English Oxford student who has disappeared whilst researching in Greece. They are shocked to find that, wherever he has been, certain unsolved murders have taken place. Not believing that their friend could be the perpetrator of such acts, they press on with their search, finding him under the spell of a beautiful Vampire, whose blood-sucking methods include the use of sado-masochism. Believing they have killed her, the group return home, unaware that their friend is now a Vampire.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-05-14
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The Jokers
Overview: Brothers Michael and David Tremayne decide to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London, not for criminal purposes, but to make themselves famous.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-05-15
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Atlantic Wall
Overview: 1944. Léon Duchemin owns a restaurant with his sister. His clients are Germans, Résistance et black marketeers. Léon unwillingly joins the Résistance when a British pilot is shot down and hides in his attic and, through a series of mishaps, he accidentally steals the plans for Hitler's V1 missiles.
Genres: Adventure Comedy War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-10-14
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Watch It, Sailor!
Overview: Sailor Albert gets a message from the Navy saying he can't marry for certain unexplained legal reasons. Everyone, including his domineering mother-in-law to be, jumps to the conclusion that there must be another woman involved.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-08-14
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The Blue Lamp
Overview: P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the easy-going night beat. Dixon is a classic ordinary hero but also anachronistic, unprepared and unable to answer the violence of the 1950s.
Genres: Crime Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-01-19
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The Ruling Class
Overview: When the Earl of Gurney dies in a cross-dressing accident, his schizophrenic son, Jack, inherits the Gurney estate. Jack is not the average nobleman; he sings and dances across the estate and thinks he is Jesus reincarnated. Believing that Jack is mentally unfit to own the estate, the Gurney family plots to steal Jack's inheritance. As their outrageous schemes fail, the family strives to cure Jack of his bizarre behavior, with disastrous results.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-09-13
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Barnacle Bill
Overview: A seasick sea captain commands an amusement pier despite local opposition. Released in the U.S. as 'All at Sea'
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-12-17
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The Best House in London
Overview: In Victorian London, the British Government attempts a solution to the problem of prostitution by establishing the world's most fabulous brothel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Old Man's Fancy
Overview: An aging businessman's squabbling children object to his proposed marriage to his much younger assistant, and each for his or her own selfish reasons manoeuvres against it.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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Four Men in Prison
Overview: Part of BFI collection "Police and Thieves."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-31
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The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones
Overview: Another stab at Henry Fielding's hilarious novel about the amorous misadventures of a dashing young man in 18th century England. The brilliant 1963 version, starring Albert Finney as the lusty hero, won four Oscars. Joan Collins does a great job as a Wicked Lady style highwaywoman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-08-01
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Tons of Trouble
Overview: An apartment handyman is unusually attached to a pair of boilers he names "Mavis" and "Ethel."
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-04-09
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Operation Crossbow
Overview: Allied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets and sabotage the plant. The film alternates between German developments of the V-1 missile and V-2 rocket (with a German cast speaking their own language) and discovery by British Intelligence of the weapon.
Genres: Drama War Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-04-01
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Hammerhead
Overview: An American agent has tracked down the stronghold of an evil criminal mastermind, determined to take over the world (what, another one ?).
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-09-11
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Hot Enough for June
Overview: A young man travels to Prague to join his new employer, unaware that he is being used as an espionage courier.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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Deadlier Than the Male
Overview: British agent Bulldog Drummond is assigned to stop a master criminal who uses beautiful women to do his killings.
Genres: Action Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-02-12
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A Touch of Larceny
Overview: After falling in love with an American woman, Virginia Killain, who is engaged to another man, British Naval Commander Max Easton, hatches a plan that will get him enough money to support Virginia in the lifestyle she is accustomed to. Easton's plan is to disappear for a time making it seem that he has defected to the Soviets taking important Naval secrets from his job at the Admiralty and to return and sue the newspapers for slander. Not everything goes as planned for Commander Easton.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-02-04
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Doctor Who: The War Machines
Overview: The TARDIS arrives in London in 1966 and the First Doctor and Dodo visit the Post Office Tower. There they meet Professor Brett, whose revolutionary new computer WOTAN (Will Operating Thought ANalogue) can actually think for itself and is shortly to be linked up to other major computers around the world — a project overseen by civil servant Sir Charles Summer.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-07-16
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Upstairs and Downstairs
Overview: On marrying the boss's daughter, Richard takes his father-in-law's advice to hire a live-in domestic. He soon finds good help is hard to come by. Run-ins follow with dipsomaniacs, bank robbers, a Welsh lass who takes one look at London and runs, and an Italian charmer who turns the place into a bawdy house. Then when Ingrid arrives from Sweden things actually start to get complicated.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-11-02
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Salt & Pepper
Overview: After discovering the body of a murdered female agent in their trendy Soho, London nightclub, groovy owners Charles Salt and Christopher Pepper partake in a fumbling investigation and uncover an evil plot to overthrow the government. Can our cool, yet inept duo stop the bad guys in time?
Genres: Comedy Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-07-03
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Stop Press Girl
Overview: A young woman leaves her backwards hometown to go to London to find a runaway suitor. What she doesn't know is that she has inherited a strange ability; if she's in the vicinity of a machine for more than fifteen minutes, it stops working.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-06-02
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Conflict of Wings
Overview: In rural Norfolk, villagers are spurred to action when it is announced that the nearby RAF station is taking over the Island of Children, a much-loved and untouched bird sanctuary, for rocket practice.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-03-29
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The Battle of the Sexes
Overview: Angela Barrows is a man-eating business woman sent by her American employer to investigate their export opportunities in Edinburgh. En route she meets Robert MacPherson, a businessman who asks for her help to bring his company into the 20th Century. The staff, led by Mr Martin, has other ideas—and a battle between the old and new business methods soon breaks out.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-02-25
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Carve Her Name with Pride
Overview: London, England, during World War II. After living a tragic life experience, young Violette Szabo joins the Special Operations Executive and crosses the German enemy lines as a secret agent to aid a French Resistance group.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-02-18
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The Loves of Joanna Godden
Overview: Joanna Godden falls heir to a farm when her father dies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-06-08
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The Legend of Young Dick Turpin
Overview: When a rapacious new landlord threatens to evict him, seize his horse, and leave him penniless, the young farmer Dick Turpin flees to London and reluctantly establishes himself in the underworld with the help of a street-smart boy.
Genres: Adventure Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-03-01
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Kitty Clive
Overview: A comedy about the celebrated 18th century comedienne, Kitty Clive.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-03-27
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