Bob Peck
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Robert Peck was an English stage, television and film actor who was best known for his roles as Ronald Craven in the television serial Edge of Darkness and as gamekeeper Robert Muldoon in the film Jurassic Park.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: August 23, 1945
Age: 79 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: April 04, 1999
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Lord of the Flies
Overview: When their plane crashes, 25 schoolboys find themselves trapped on a tropical island, miles from civilization.
Genres: Adventure Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-03-16
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The Miracle Maker
Overview: A mother and father in search of help for their sick daughter cross paths with an extraordinary carpenter named Jesus, who has devoted his life to spreading God's word. An amazing miracle brings to light the true meaning of Christ, and the sacrifices he endured for the deliverance of mankind. A compelling story of faith, trust, and devotion.
Genres: Animation Family Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-03-31
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Slipstream
Overview: In the near future, where Earth has been devastated by man's pollution and giant winds rule the planet, bounty hunter Matt kidnaps a murderer out of the hands of two police officers, planning to get the bounty himself.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-06-22
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Waiting at the Field Gate
Overview: Lightning Gallat is the village slaughterer and a man of distinction. Where does he draw the line?
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-04-03
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Macbeth
Overview: Macbeth is a 1978 videotaped version of Trevor Nunn's Royal Shakespeare Company production of the play by William Shakespeare. Produced by Thames Television, it features Ian McKellen as Macbeth and Judi Dench as Lady Macbeth. The TV version was directed by Philip Casson. The original stage production was performed at The Other Place, the RSC's small studio theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon. It had been performed in the round before small audiences, with a bare stage and simple costuming. The recording preserves this style: the actors perform on a circular set and with a mostly black background changes of setting are indicated only by lighting changes.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-02-02
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An Ungentlemanly Act
Overview: Based on actual accounts, this film portrays the days and hours before and during the invasion of the Falkland Islands by Argentina, which eventually lead to the Falklands War. As the Argentine forces land on the main island and make their way towards Government House, the handful of British defenders batten down the hatches and prepare to defend Governor Rex Hunt, his family, and their fellow islanders from the invaders.
Genres: War History Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-06-13
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Shoot the Revolution
Overview: During the Romanian Revolution in December 1989, a young girl is shot in the head by Tudor Barbu, a member of the Securitate. His brother Octavian was the girl's teacher who "filled her head with the ideas of truth". The question isn't how did she die, but why?
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-16
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The Making of 'Jurassic Park'
Overview: This documentary treats film fans to a behind-the-scenes look at the making of "Jurassic Park," one of the 90's biggest hits and a milestone in special effects development. Narrated by James Earl Jones, it includes footage of the filming process, as well as interviews with director Steven Spielberg, and other members of the cast and crew, who give their insights into what it was like working together on this project and the efforts it took to bring the film to completion.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-04-23
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The Black Velvet Gown
Overview: In the 1830's in northern England, Riah Millican, a widow with three children, takes a job as housekeeper to a reclusive former teacher, Percival Miller. Miller makes Riah the gift of a black velvet gown, and even educates her children. But when Riah discovers the reason behind Miller's gifts, she vows to leave his house, but Miller has a hold on her, even after his death, when he leaves his house to her on the condition that she never marry. Riah's daughter, Biddy, grows up and becomes a laundress in a large house where her education keeps her from fitting in and makes her a target. But it also catches the eye of a son of the house, and with Miller's legacies, Biddy may yet find her way to happiness.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1991-06-02
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The Scold's Bridle
Overview: Detective Cooper investigates the bizarre circumstances surrounding the murder of Matilda who was found dead in her bath wearing the Scold's Bridle.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-04-10
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After Pilkington
Overview: The quiet life of Oxford professor James Westgate is shattered when he is introduced to Penny, the wife of his crass new colleague.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-25
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Children Crossing
Overview: Is Joe really having an affair - or is Rosie imagining it all? A story of sexual jealousy, betrayal and vengeance - an emotional journey which keeps you guessing to the bitter end.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-03-25
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Carlo Levi Stopped Here
Overview: The deep North-South divide in Italy is explored through the eyes of northern anti-fascist writer and painter, Carlo Levi, who is exiled by Mussolini to a remote village in Southern Italy. Levi falls in love with the ancient traditions of Southern peasant culture and becomes a passionate advocate, fighting for justice for the impoverished South.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-07-28
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The Merchant of Venice
Overview: A TV schools version of the play by William Shakespeare, filmed in the studio and on location in Venice.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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The Kitchen Toto
Overview: The son of a priest slain by the Mau Mau moves in with a police officer and his wife in 1950 Kenya.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-04-29
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Smilla's Sense of Snow
Overview: Smilla Jaspersen attempts to understand the death of a small boy who falls from the roof of her apartment building. Suspecting wrongdoing, Smilla uncovers a trail of clues leading towards a secretive corporation that has made several mysterious expeditions to Greenland.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-02-28
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Hard Times
Overview: Charles Dickens' bleak, passionate novel about the challenges of life in 19th-century London comes to life with an outstanding cast and brilliant cinematography.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-04-29
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Ladder of Swords
Overview: An escaped convict, pursued by an obsessive policeman, hides out in a travelling circus
Genres: Fantasy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-12
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FairyTale: A True Story
Overview: In 1917, two children take a photograph, which is soon believed by some to be the first scientific evidence of the existence of fairies. Based on the true story of the Cottingley Fairies.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Mystery Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-24
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The Three Sisters
Overview: Olga, Masha, and Irina Prozoroff lead lonely and purposeless lives following the death of their father who has commanded the local army post. Olga attempts to find satisfaction in teaching but secretly longs for a home and family. Masha, unhappy with her marriage to a timid schoolmaster, falls hopelessly in love with a married colonel. Irina works in the local telegraph office but longs for gaiety. Their sense of futility is increased by their brother's marriage to Natasha, a coarse peasant girl. She gradually encroaches on the family home until even the private refuge of the sisters is destroyed. They dream of starting a new life in Moscow but are saddled with the practicalities of their quiet existence. Despite their past failures, they resolve to seek some purpose and hope when the army post is withdrawn from the town.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-12-29
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Who Bombed Birmingham?
Overview: Docudrama film exploring the efforts of World in Action researchers Ian MacBride and Chris Mullin in proving that the "Birmingham Six" only admitted to the bombing under extreme duress, and that the five IRA members were in fact responsible for the deadly attacks
Genres: Documentary Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-04-22
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One Way Out
Overview: James Carlisle is a successful architect who sees his children every weekend following his divorce from Lyn. When Lyn falls in love with the unstable Bernard, James is forced to take drastic action.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-10
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A TV Dante
Overview: A TV Dante is an experimental mini-series directed by Tom Phillips and legendary filmmaker Peter Greenaway. It covers eight of the thirty-four cantos in Dante Alighieri's Inferno, part of his 14th century epic poem The Divine Comedy. The eight cantos of the film are not conventionally dramatised, rather they are illuminated with layered and juxtaposed imagery while the text is read entirely in "talking head" fashion, and punctuated with a kaleidoscopic blend of both newly shot and archival footage.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-06-13
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Natural Lies
Overview: An advertising executive investigating the death of an old girlfriend uncovers a conspiracy to cover up the spread of BSE in humans.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-05-31
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Jurassic Park
Overview: A wealthy entrepreneur secretly creates a theme park featuring living dinosaurs drawn from prehistoric DNA. Before opening day, he invites a team of experts and his two eager grandchildren to experience the park and help calm anxious investors. However, the park is anything but amusing as the security systems go off-line and the dinosaurs escape.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-06-11
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Seasick
Overview: Eco-terrorists attack a ship carrying toxic waste.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-04-05
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In Time's Shadow
Overview: Drawing upon eye-witness accounts from survivors and participants in the bombing of Hiroshima, this programme shows how both Japan and the United States are still facing enormous problems in coming to terms with the legacy of that fateful August day.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-08-08
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The War That Never Ends
Overview: The Peloponnesian Wars (Athens versus Sparta for twenty-seven years) told in the format of news broadcast-like monologues by Theucydides, Plato, and others.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-03-28
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The Disputation
Overview: In 1263, King James I of Aragon organizes a debate between representatives of Judaism and Christianity regarding whether or not Jesus was the Messiah.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-12-21
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Masks of Evil
Overview: A top secret mission for French Intelligence brings Indy to Istanbul during the first world war. Exploring the city's dark and dangerous streets, he is thrust into a web of betrayal and murder when he discovers a vile Turkish plot to assassinate French espionage agents. Evil of a more enduring kind awaits him in Transylvania where he engages in a mortal combat with bloodthirsty Vlad the Impaler and his horrific army of the living dead. With his life at stake, Indy must garner all his strength and wits in order to defeat the fiend and save mankind.
Genres: Adventure Horror Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-26
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Sunset Across the Bay
Overview: A married couple, after a life time of work and bringing up a family, retire and awaken to the fast changing world around them, the habitual nature of their relationship, and what they have left.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-02-20
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Hospital!
Overview: Comedy about a brilliant young brain surgeon set in an unorthodox hospital. A "Naked Gun" type comedy from Britain, this one-off special was made specifically for the launch of Channel 5 in 1997.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-03-30
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Royal Flash
Overview: Cowardly rogue Harry Flashman's (Malcolm McDowell) schemes to gain entry to the royal circles of 19th-century Europe go nowhere until he meets a pair of devious nobles with their own agenda. At their urging, Flashman agrees to re-create himself as a bogus Prussian nobleman to woo a beautiful duchess. But the half-baked plan quickly comes unraveled, and he's soon on the run from several new enemies who are all calling for the rapscallion's head.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-10-10
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The Opium War
Overview: The story of the Opium War between China, in the waning days of the Qing Dynasty, and the British Empire, in the 1830s, and the subsequent takeover of Hong Kong by Britain; through the eyes of the key figures, fiercely nationalistic Lin Zexu, and opportunistic British naval diplomat Charles Elliot.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1997-06-09
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Parker
Overview: An Aussie businessman is trying to find out why and by whom he was kidnapped and then later released with no explanation.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-05-03
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In Lambeth
Overview: All is peaceful in the garden of William Blake - a sanctuary from the stirrings of revolution on the streets. The arrival of an unexpected visitor, Thomas Paine , provokes an impassioned debate between the visionary artist and the political activist.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-07-04
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Surviving Picasso
Overview: The passionate Merchant-Ivory drama tells the story of Francoise Gilot, the only lover of Pablo Picasso who was strong enough to withstand his ferocious cruelty and move on with her life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-04
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Bavarian Night
Overview: The dynamic young headmaster of St Peter's Primary School decides to liven up a parents' fundraising social by hiring a Bavarian band.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-03-31
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A TV Dante (Cantos 9 to 14)
Overview: These six video segments (10 minutes each) were originally developed for broadcast on Channel 4 as the second installment in the larger, never completed, series comissioned for Peter Greenaway and Tom Philips' A TV Dante (1989). But it was never aired. Ruiz's treatment of the six Cantos can be taken together as a bridge between his previous visions of hell in Mémoire des apparences AKA Life is a Dream (1986) and La Chouette aveugle (1987) and themore recent series of essay videos that he has made for Chilean television under the title Cofralandes (2002).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-03-06
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On the Black Hill
Overview: The story covers eighty years in the lives of a pair of Welsh identical twins with an unusual bond, as they go through war, love affairs, and land disputes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-12
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The Making of Slipstream
Overview: The making of Steven Lisberger's 1989 Sci-Fi film Slipstream
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-10-25
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