Stephen Tompkinson
Also Known As: استیون تامپکینسون
Biography: Stephen Phillip Tompkinson is an English actor, known for his television roles as Marcus in Chancer (1990), Damien Day in Drop the Dead Donkey (1990–1998), Father Peter Clifford in Ballykissangel (1996–98), Trevor Purvis in Grafters (1998–1999), Danny Trevanion in Wild at Heart (2006–2013) and Alan Banks in DCI Banks (2010–2016). He won the 1994 British Comedy Award for Best TV Comedy Actor. He also starred in the films Brassed Off (1996) and Hotel Splendide (2000).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Stockton-on-Tees, Durham, England
Birthday: October 15, 1965
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Gender: Male
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Brassed Off
Overview: A Yorkshire coal mine is threatened with closure and the only hope is for the men to enter their Grimley Colliery Brass Band into a national competition. They believe they have no hope until Gloria appears carrying her Flugelhorn. At first mocked for being a woman, she soon becomes the only chance for the band to win.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-11-01
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Marian, Again
Overview: School teacher Chris Bevan is a dutiful husband to his dull wife, Josie, and ingrate daughters. His best friend knows Chris' heart always belonged to Marian, his vibrant, flippant fiancée, who mysteriously disappeared years ago. Suddenly he sees her in a shop and can't help following her. He gives up as she has a new identity, as wife of plumber Bernie Sullivan. Bernie's real passion is Houdini-era 'real' magic, while in fact she's his terrified captive, forced to replace his late assistant. Furthermore one of Bevan's daughters has a phone-relationship he forbids, deeming it dangerous on principle, ignoring this is real and ties in to Marian's plight.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-05
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Hotel Splendide
Overview: A chef seeks reconciliation with her brother by helping him run a decaying resort and health spa.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-21
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Staying Up
Overview: Set in 1990 on an Air Force base in the mid-Atlantic. Billy is desperate to listen to his team Middlesborough, play Newcastle United. But Billy's quest for diversion masks an unspoken trauma in his past which he is forced to confront.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-05-07
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The Flint Street Nativity
Overview: With angels crying in the toilets all because of a jealous Angel Gabriel, it could only be the eagerly awaited performance of the Primary school nativity play - this time with a twist! The UK's finest comedy actors take the leading roles as the eight year old performers. Through the inevitable mishaps, misunderstandings, young egos, fears of failure and fallings out, the children's characters evolve into mirror images of thier parents, the nativity play's audience. You'll be drawn into the amusing and enchanting worlds and minds of young children and reminisce about your own childhood performances!
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-22
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Bob the Builder: A Christmas to Remember - The Movie
Overview: Near Christmas, Robert "Bob The Builder" McGraw Jr. and his machine team gang of talking construction vehicles are preparing for the Winter Christmas Holiday celebration season. Bob's twin brother Thomas "Tom The Zoologist" McGraw (who lives in the Arctic Circle near the North Pole) is coming for Christmas, Spud The Scarecrow is trying to be good to get presents and a big Christmas concert is coming up with the rock band Lenny Lazenby and the Lasers (including Elton John). but unfortunately, a huge ULTIMATE DISASTER has happened with the Christmas tree and the town hall has nearly smashed to SMITHEREENS!!. will the concert work out? will Tom get there for Christmas? will Spud be on the nice list? will the tree and the town hall be alright??? find out these answers, in "A CHRISTMAS TO REMEMBER".
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-22
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Harrigan
Overview: Amongst the desperation and fear growing in a crime ridden estate in northern England, one man becomes embroiled into saving what community life exists.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-20
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The Deep Blue Sea
Overview: Hester Collyer is rescued by a neighbor after attempting suicide in the flat she shares with her young lover, ex-RAF pilot Freddie Page. The neighbors alert her husband, who arrives at the flat only to find her fully recovered...
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-11-12
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Bob the Builder: Christmas With Bob and the Crew
Overview: Christmas With Bob and the Crew is a Blockbuster Exclusive video Featuring the two videos Bob's White Christmas and A Christmas to Remember
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-30
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Stumped
Overview: This brilliantly witty new play starring Stephen Tompkinson as Samuel Beckett and Andrew Lancel as Harold Pinter, gives a wonderful insight into what the friendship between these two great men may have looked like. As well as being a beautiful tribute to their writing, the theatre of the absurd, and of course their love for the game of cricket.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-09-27
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Amnesty International's Big 30
Overview: In the tradition of the acclaimed series of British concerts known as The Secret Policemen's Ball, Amnesty International celebrates its 50th Anniversary live at Radio City Music Hall.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-12-28
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In Denial of Murder
Overview: Dramatisation of the Stephen Downing case which involved the conviction and imprisonment in 1974 of a 17-year-old council worker, Stephen Downing, for the murder of a 32 year old legal secretary, Wendy Sewell, in the town of Bakewell in the Peak District in central England. Following a campaign by a local newspaper, his conviction was overturned in 2002, after Downing had served 27 years in prison. The case is thought to be the longest miscarriage of justice in British legal history, and attracted worldwide media attention.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-02-29
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A Dark Reflection
Overview: A journalist digs deep into the world of aviation and discovers some uncomfortable truths. And a conspiracy trail dating back to 1954. But why is no one saying anything?
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-02-27
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Spike Milligan I told you I was ill... A live tribute
Overview: One of many tributes following the death of Spike Milligan. Comedians, actors and musicians join forces to present a live tribute featuring a selection of comic highlights from Spike's life. From recreations of his most famous sketches to readings of Milligan's own poems and extracts from his controversial wartime memoirs, these are all interspersed with archive film clips of the great man himself, showcasing his inimitable comic genius.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-10-05
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Hector
Overview: Hector has been living on the motorways for years. His once comfortable family life has been replaced by a never-ending tour of service stations that offer him shelter, anonymity, washing facilities and food. The story follows his journey south from Scotland on his annual pilgrimage to a temporary Christmas shelter in London where he finds comfort, friendship and warmth. Over the course of his Homeric journey, Hector decides to reconnect with his long estranged past. As his previous life catches up with him, the story of how he came to be leading a marginal life begins to emerge.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-12-11
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Lucky Jim
Overview: A rollicking adaptation of Kingsley Amis's first novel, Lucky Jim stars Stephen Tompkinson as Jim Dixon, a luckless lecturer at a provincial British university, trying to make a splash with his pompous boss, Professor Neddy Welch (Robert Hardy). Jim is also trying to make it with the woman of his dreams, Christine Callaghan (Keeley Hawes, Othello and Wives and Daughters), while simultaneously being pursued by the woman of his nightmares, fellow lecturer Margaret Peel (Helen McCrory, Anna Karenina). One (of many) complications is that Christine is the girlfriend of Professor Welch's egotistical artist son, Bertrand. Another is that Margaret keeps attempting suicide to get Jim's attention. But despite his misadventures, Jim keeps his eyes on the prize: a leg up on the ladder to a professorship in medieval history.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-04-11
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And a Nightingale Sang
Overview: Set in working class Newcastle, the Stott family fight their private battles against the backdrop of the conflict of World War II. Helen Stott, over thirty and with a limp, is resigned to being left on the shelf until she meets and falls in love with Norman, a serviceman from London. In contrast, her younger sister Joyce has quite a way with men, and finds herself a little too popular with the troops, especially when her husband pops up on leave from his regiment.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-04-17
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Walk Like a Panther
Overview: A group of 1980s wrestlers are forced to don the lycra once last time when their beloved local pub is threatened with closure.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-03-09
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Eric, Ernie and Me
Overview: For over a decade, an ex-market stall trader from Liverpool called Eddie Braben wrote the scripts that made the nation take Morecambe and Wise to their hearts. But for Braben, it wasn't all sunshine. Beginning in 1969 with the birth of the 'golden triangle' of Eric, Ernie and Eddie, this film chronicles the grind that pushed the perfectionist Braben to the brink of exhaustion, culminating in the triumphant Christmas Day show of 1977.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-12-29
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A Very Open Prison
Overview: The Home Secretary has his eye on the Prime Minister's job. But an experiment in the way the prisons are run leads to embarrassment - and escaped murderers! The fore runner of Crossing The Floor
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-09
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Torvill & Dean
Overview: Biopic of the British ice dancers and British, European, Olympic and World champions, Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-12-25
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The Taming of the Shrew
Overview: A young harridan MP marries a title in order to advance towards her goal of becoming party leader.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-11-21
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Treacle
Overview: Old Blackpool comedian Alfie Duffell allegedly wrote a song called 'Put a Bit of Treacle on my Pudding Mary-Ann', which might have made him famous, had he not sold it years ago, for five pounds. Now it is up to his grandson Stephen to take the song into the eighties.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-12
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Once More for Bobby
Overview: On November 10th, Robbie Elliott and Phil Gray cycled across the Tyne Bridge in Newcastle (UK) and into St. James' Park to complete an epic 3500 mile journey in only 25 days. It saw them visit every club that SIR BOBBY ROBSON managed throughout his career. This feature film follows the duo's journey across Europe and tells the story of Sir Bobby Robson's life.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-12-18
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When Snooker Ruled the World
Overview: Taking a look back at the golden era of snooker in the 1970s and 80s.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-04-28
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Sunday For Sammy 2016
Overview: Sunday For Sammy 2016, a feast of North East talent in a spectacular show held in memory of Sammy Johnson, raising money to train and assist the next generation of regional performers.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-02-01
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