Jason Salkey
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Biography: Jason Salkey (born 24 April 1962) is an English actor, best known for playing Harris, the "educated rifleman", in the television series Sharpe.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
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Birthday: April 24, 1962
Age: 63 years old
Gender: Male
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The Road to Guantanamo
Overview: Part drama, part documentary, The Road to Guantánamo focuses on the Tipton Three, a trio of British Muslims who were held in Guantanamo Bay for two years until they were released without charge.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-03-09
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The Steal
Overview: A young American computer hackeress is hired by a liberal British lawyer to right the wrong done to a third world country by a London investment company. Even the expertise of her building inspector sidekick can not prevent a surprising development though.
Genres: Thriller Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-05-05
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The Turn of the Screw
Overview: A governess put in charge of two young children begins to see the ghost of her dead predecessor.
Genres: Drama Thriller Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-26
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Sharpe's Rifles
Overview: During the Peninsular War in Spain against the French, Sergeant Richard Sharpe saves the life of Arthur Wellesley, the future Duke of Wellington and is promoted to Lieutenant. In order to pay the troops Wellesley needs a money draft from the banker Rothschild, but fears he has been captured by the French and sends Sharpe behind enemy lines to find him. Sharpe is given command of a platoon of crack riflemen, led by the surly Irishman Harper and including Hagman and Harris, who resent Sharpe as not being a 'proper officer'.
Genres: War Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-05
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Sharpe's Company
Overview: Spain 1812 The Duke of Wellington plans to lay siege to Badajoz. A murderous figure from Sharpe's past uses a beautiful woman revenge himself on Sharpe, now the father of her child. Sharpe has reason to be happy, he holds his daughter for the first time and is given command of the Light Company again, together with his captaincy. But will his happiness be short lived?
Genres: War Adventure History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-05-25
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Sharpe's Gold
Overview: Sharpe is sent on a mission to exchange rifles for deserters with a strange band of Spanish guerillas. He also has to chaperone two women looking for their missing husband.
Genres: War TV Movie Adventure Action History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-04-01
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Sharpe's Sword
Overview: Sharpe is tasked to protect the most important spy in Lord Wellington's network, but domestic issues, a traumatized young girl, and possible French spies all threaten his success
Genres: War History Action Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-04-26
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Bring Me the Head of Mavis Davis
Overview: Marla Darland is blessed with the voice of an angel, a singing legend. But when her agent, Marty Starr, finds his agency in trouble, he concocts a sinister plot to bring up her record sales. Amazed at the posthumous record sales of Elvis and Jimi Hendrix, Marty becomes determined to arrange a similar fate for Marla, staging the perfect tragic demise. But he didn't count on Marla not being quite ready to go.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-16
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In America
Overview: A family of Irish immigrants adjusts to life on the mean streets of Hell's Kitchen while also grieving the death of a child.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-10-31
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Sharpe's Mission
Overview: Sharpe is teamed with a Colonel he helped promote and they are tasked to destroy a powder magazine, but an alliance with the French may threaten their success. Meanwhile, Jane is wearying of the army life and Harper and Ramona are at odds.
Genres: War Action Adventure History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-05-15
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Sharpe: The Legend
Overview: Several years after the battle of Waterloo, a former soldier from Shoreditch sits in a London inn reminiscing about the brave and determined officer who took him to hell and back. The narrator is Rifleman Cooper, and the officer whose fame he recalls is the legendary Richard Sharpe.
Genres: War Action Adventure History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-13
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The Infidel
Overview: Based in a London suburb Mahmud Nasir lives with his wife, Saamiya, and two children, Rashid and Nabi. His son plans to marry Uzma, the step-daughter of Egyptian-born Arshad Al-Masri, a so-called 'Hate Cleric' from Waziristan, Pakistan. Mahmud, who is not exactly a devout Muslim, he drinks alcohol, and does not pray five times, but does agree that he will appease Arshad, without whose approval the marriage cannot take place. Shortly thereafter Mahmud, while going over his recently deceased mother's documents, will find out that he was adopted, his birth parents were Jewish, and his name is actually Solly Shimshillewitz.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-02-18
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The Russia House
Overview: Barley Scott Blair, a Lisbon-based editor of Russian literature who unexpectedly begins working for British intelligence, is commissioned to investigate the purposes of Dante, a dissident scientist trapped in the decaying Soviet Union that is crumbling under the new open-minded policies.
Genres: Drama Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-21
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The Fifth Element
Overview: In 2257, a taxi driver is unintentionally given the task of saving a young girl who is part of the key that will ensure the survival of humanity.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-05-02
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About a Boy
Overview: Will Freeman is a good-looking, smooth-talking bachelor whose primary goal in life is avoiding any kind of responsibility. But when he invents an imaginary son in order to meet attractive single moms, Will gets a hilarious lesson about life from a bright, but hopelessly geeky 12-year-old named Marcus. Now, as Will struggles to teach Marcus the art of being cool, Marcus teaches Will that you're never too old to grow up.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-04-26
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Anna Lee: Headcase
Overview: A bright, pretty and determined young lady named Anna Lee quits the police department in search of adventure, and joins a small and somewhat stuffy detective agency, whose members don't look particularly kindly on her short skirts, somewhat cavalier attitude toward agency rules--like showing up for work on time--and her overall demeanor. However, the agency's owner takes a shine to her and assigns her to what seems to be a relatively straightforward case: finding a young girl who's gone missing and whose family is worried about her. As it turns out, the case involves quite a bit more than just a missing girl.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-10
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Going Off Big Time
Overview: After surviving prison, a man has to forge a career in the crime world
Genres: Comedy Thriller Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-21
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Kick-Ass
Overview: Dave Lizewski is an unnoticed high school student and comic book fan who one day decides to become a super-hero, even though he has no powers, training or meaningful reason to do so.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-03-26
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Sharpe's Battle
Overview: When Sharpe is ordered to whip the King of Spain's Irish Royal Brigade into shape, he faces dissent from the men who believe the British are slaughtering their relatives in Ireland and a spy from within.
Genres: War Adventure History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-04-19
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Sharpe's Waterloo
Overview: Based on the novel by Bernard Cornwell, "Sharpe's Waterloo" brings maverick British officer Lt. Col. Richard Sharpe to his last fight against the French, in June of 1815.
Genres: War Action Adventure TV Movie History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-05-27
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Sharpe's Eagle
Overview: Sharpe is a Captain saddled with the South Essex, a battalion run by incompetents and filled with soldiers who have never been in battle. When the South Essex loses its colours (its regimental flag), Sharpe vows to save the honor of the regiment by capturing a French Imperial standard: an eagle.
Genres: War Action Adventure History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-12
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Sharpe's Enemy
Overview: Portugal 1813. A band of deserters, including Sharpe's old enemy, Obadiah Hakeswill, have captured two women, one the wife of a high-ranking English officer, and are holding them hostage for ransom. Sharpe is given the 60th Rifles and a Rocket troop, as well as his majority to rescue the women. But while Sharpe may be able to deal with his old enemy, he has yet to face a newer threat, the French Major Pierre Ducos.
Genres: War History Action Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-06-01
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Sharpe's Honour
Overview: 1813. Major Sharpe's old enemy, Major Ducos manipulates a beautiful young marquesa into falsely accusing Sharpe of rape. Her husband calls Sharpe out in a duel. But when the husband is found dead the next morning, Sharpe is arrested and brought before a court martial, and it seems not even Patrick Harper and the Chosen Men can save Sharpe from a hanging, or rescue his honour
Genres: War History Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-06-08
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Sharpe's Siege
Overview: Sharpe, with his new commanding officer, is sent to capture a castle when news comes of locals who will rise against Bonaparte. However, he is somewhat distracted by thoughts of his wife whom he was forced to leave while stricken with fever.
Genres: War Action Adventure TV Movie History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-05-08
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Forgiven
Overview: Suburban housewife Liz discovers that husband Stephen is abusing their daughter. She confronts him and reports him to the authorities, but also decides to try to help him recover from what must be "a sickness". Stephen is tried and imprisoned. When he leaves prison, Liz arranges for him to receive treatment at a residential clinic for sex offenders, where he undergoes intensive therapy. Stephen finally faces his guilt and the consequences of his abuse. The family decide to rebuild their lives together. Is this right? Is it even possible? And – if they do - what's the emotional cost?
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-08-15
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