Jean Heywood
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Northumberand, England, UK
Birthday: July 15, 1921
Deathday: September 14, 2019
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Billy Elliot
Overview: County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up from Bethnal Green, starting a class war with the lower classes suffering. Caught in the middle of the conflict is 11-year old Billy Elliot, who, after leaving his boxing club for the day, stumbles upon a ballet class and finds out that he's naturally talented. He practices with his teacher Mrs. Wilkinson for an upcoming audition in Newcastle-upon Tyne for the royal Ballet school in London.
Genres: Drama Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-28
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The Healing
Overview: John believes his faith has the power to cure. When he returns to help on his father's farm, he finds it can also kill.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-11-29
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Daft Mam Blues
Overview: As sisters, Gladys and Iris never agree about anything - but on one point they're clear: their old mam can't hear a word of their arguments, can she?
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-05-17
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The Medium
Overview: "Honestly, mam, it's all a load of rubbish. I mean, I read me horoscope and things like that, for a joke... but this." A group of women gather to have their fortunes told by a drunken clairvoyant.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-10-15
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Sakharov
Overview: Biography of Russian physicist & dissident Andrei Sakharov focuses on his first acts in his civil rights.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-06-20
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Our Day Out
Overview: When a teacher takes a group of troubled school children on a school trip to Conwy in Wales, the children understand life outside of Liverpool.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-12
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Trip Trap
Overview: The Armstrong Family - Ian (Whately), Kate (Gonet) and their children Tom and Molly live in a nice country house. But beneath this seemingly normal exterior, Maggie begins to suffer violent abuse at the hands of the normally placid Ian, with dreadful consequences for all the family.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-03-09
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Flesh and Blood
Overview: A man who was adopted at birth traces his real parents, and discovers that they have severe learning disabilities and do not know he exists.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-09-25
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Dad
Overview: Lucy Gannon (Soldier, Soldier, Bramwell, Trip Trap) has written Dad, the poignant story of Larry James (Richard Briers), a cheery and independent 86-year-old who has been caring single-handedly for his beloved wife Jeannie James (Jean Heywood) who has Alzheimer's disease. When Larry falls and breaks an ankle his life with Jeannie abruptly changes forever. Jeannie is moved into residential care and Larry goes to stay with his son Oliver (Kevin Whately), his daughter-in-law Sandy (Sinead Cusack) and their teenage daughter Millie (Hannah Daniel). But love and consideration wear thin as father and son have to learn to live together all over again.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-02-24
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Night People
Overview: A classical string quartet stop at a motorway cafe in early hours. Among the people they meet are a football supporter, a commercial traveller and an elderly couple on their way to Gretna Green to get married.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-06
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Land of Green Ginger
Overview: Faced with the prospect of being sent to work abroad, Sally Brown returns home from London to Hull, to see if she still feels the same attachment for her home town - and for her old boyfriend Mike Thurlow. Will she decide to take the job abroad or return to live with Mike in Hull?
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-15
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The Locksmith
Overview: When his estranged wife is brutally attacked by a burglar, a law-abiding locksmith unconvinced that the junkie charged for the crime is the real attacker starts his own investigation.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-09-25
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Red Monarch
Overview: British comedy satirising Stalin's inner circle as an absolute monarchs court. In the face of rampant abuse of power and poisonous distrust some still manage to keep faith with the Bolshevist creed until the very end. In front of the firing squad a stalwart bolshevist of the first hour exclaims: "Even in the best democracy errors are being made!"
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-06-16
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The Last Musketeer
Overview: Steve McTear, a gifted fencer, tries to distance himself from the violent criminal activities of his family. When he finds himself pursued by gangsters, he decides to take a job as a fencing coach at a remote and exclusive school.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-03-26
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White Goods
Overview: Ian Deegan and Charlie Collins are best friends who team up to appear on TV in a popular snooker based game show. But, when they hit their jackpot, their friendship comes under tremendous strain as they find that they cannot agree on how best to split their winnings.
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Gunslinger's Revenge
Overview: The idealistic lifestyle of an old West farmer, his Indian wife, and half-breed son is interrupted when the boy's old gunslinger father returns. They are not happy with his return despite the old gunslinger's intention to retire. Things take a turn for the worse when another gunslinger arrives in town, trying to force a battle with the father.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1998-12-18
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I Bring You Frankincense
Overview: "A rites of passage drama about a mixed race boy called Sunshine who leaves Guildford in [the] 1970's and moves to London." - BFI
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-11-23
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Missing Persons
Overview: During a visit to childhood friend Edith, retired housewife Hetty Wainthropp discovers that Edith's husband, Frank, has a son by a previous marriage. Hetty decides to turn amateur detective to trace him. When this gives her a taste for detection, Hetty decides to set up a private detective agency.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-05-30
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