Kenneth Haigh
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Mexborough, Yorkshire, England, UK
Birthday: March 25, 1931
Deathday: February 04, 2018
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Gender: Male
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Cleopatra
Overview: Determined to hold on to the throne, Cleopatra seduces the Roman emperor Julius Caesar. When Caesar is murdered, she redirects her attentions to his general, Marc Antony, who vows to take power—but Caesar’s successor has other plans.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-06-12
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Shuttlecock: Sins of a Father
Overview: At the memorial for his father, WWII hero Major James Prentis (Alan Bates), John (Lambert Wilson) confesses a dark family secret to his own son Martin (David Oakes), something that he has harbored for over twenty years. A suspense drama, it explores the complex nature of heroism, betrayal, and father-son relationships. This is a reworking of the director's original 1993 film entitled simply, Shuttlecock.
Genres: Action War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-12-31
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The Deadly Affair
Overview: Charles Dobbs is a British secret agent investigating the apparent suicide of Foreign Office official Samuel Fennan. Dobbs suspects that Fennan's wife, Elsa, a survivor of a Nazi Germany extermination camp, might have some clues, but other officials want Dobbs to drop the case. So Dobbs hires a retiring inspector, Mendel, to quietly make inquiries. Dobbs isn't at all sure as there are a number of anomalies that simply can't be explained away. Dobbs is also having trouble at home with his errant wife, whom he very much loves, having frequent affairs. He's also pleased to see an old friend, Dieter Frey, who he recruited after the war. With the assistance of a colleague and a retired policeman, Dobbs tries to piece together just who is the spy and who in fact assassinated Fennan.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-01-26
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And Did Those Feet ?
Overview: Lord Fountain hates his illegitimate twin boys as he does not seem to be able to produce legitimate heirs.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-06-02
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The Voices in the Park
Overview: The life and passions of a speaker at Hyde Park Corner.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-04-05
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Wild Geese II
Overview: A group of mercenaries is hired to spring Rudolf Hess from Spandau Prison in Berlin.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-10-18
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The Bitch
Overview: The owner of a trendy disco starts having problems with the men in her life and the Mafia, which is trying to move in on her place.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-09-19
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A Lovely Way to Die
Overview: A cop quits the force after too much disappointment in the system. He becomes a bodyguard of a rich recent widow. She is on trial for her husband's murder. He decides to help her clear her name... and get over her husband.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-04-19
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Lorna Doone
Overview: A feisty 17th-century Scotswoman falls in love with a despised landowner, to the dismay of her father.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-26
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Eagle in a Cage
Overview: 1815. A soldier becomes the governor of St. Helena and jailer of Napoleon
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-09
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Man at the Top
Overview: Northerner Joe Lampton becomes involved with Lord Ackerman, the powerful chairman of a pharmaceutical concern, his beautiful wife Alex, and daughter Robin. But trouble starts when Joe is made Managing Director of one of Ackerman’s companies and makes a shocking discovery: his predecessor committed suicide...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Companions in Crime
Overview: Two stories, in the Scotland Yard Series to show that crime does not pay. This was a compilation of two episodes from the television series Stryker of the Yard (1954) featuring Clifford Evans
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-01-01
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High Flight
Overview: The Commanding Officer of an RAF Training School must deal with a difficult cadet, but the cadet reminds the C.O. of himself when young.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-09-17
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Overview: TV-movie version of the Victor Hugo novel.
Genres: Drama Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-30
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A State of Emergency
Overview: This story is about a crusading scientist out to stop nuclear testing who is motivated by scientific fact, conscience and faith. Dr. Alex Carmody (Martin Sheen) is a physicist who becomes convinced that if the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. continue to test nuclear weapons, eventually one of these tests will set off an atomic chain reaction that will obliterate the world. Carmody travels to Portugal where he tries talks to one of the women who in 1911 saw a vision of the Virgin Mary that spoke to her and her two companions about the future. Carmody is certain that the Virgin Mary predicted the very chain reaction he and his co-worker Dr. Kenneth Parrish (Peter Firth) envision. Failing in his attempt to talk to the woman, Carmody then travels to Paris and elsewhere, warning Soviet and American officials that the tests they are planning should be cancelled before they become their last.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-11-01
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My Teenage Daughter
Overview: Magazine editor Valerie Carr lives in London with her two daughters Jan, aged seventeen, and Poppet, thirteen. When Jan is invited to a party at the Savoy, she meets dashing young Tony Ward Black mad about jive, owner of a Bentley, and supposedly running through a legacy. Attracted to the daring young man, she rejects Mark, a young farmer who is in love with her. But it soon becomes apparent to everyone but Jan that neither Tony's fortune nor even his name may be his own, and her association with him will lead her into delinquency and danger.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-06-20
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The Creditors
Overview: Gustave meets Adolph who tries to show him that Gustave’s fiancée doesn’t love him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-10-10
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The Act
Overview: Eastern Europe, February 1944: Johann Frink and Otto Hansen, once famous Berlin cabaret artists, are summoned to take part in a special 'entertainment', devised by a mysterious Nazi captain. When they discover where they are to perform, they find themselves with an appalling dilemma.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-08-09
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Journey to Murder
Overview: Television movie that consists of two episodes from the UK TV series Journey to the Unknown (1968): Do Me a Favor and Kill Me (1968) and The Killing Bottle (1969).
Genres: TV Movie Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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The Zoo Story
Overview: Peter and Jerry meet on a park bench in New York City's Central Park. Peter is a wealthy publishing executive with a wife, two daughters, two cats, and two parakeets. Jerry is an isolated and disheartened man, desperate to have a meaningful conversation with another human being. He intrudes on Peter's peaceful state by interrogating him and forcing him to listen to stories about his life and the reason behind his visit to the zoo.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-01-12
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Night Train to Murder
Overview: When Eric's niece Kathy becomes one of the heirs to a considerable fortune, her life (and those of the other heirs) is placed in jeopardy by the actions of a mysterious inter-loper.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Troilus & Cressida
Overview: The bitter Trojan War drags on - the Greeks blame Achilles' apathy for low morale, while Troy's hero Hector challenges one of the enemy to a personal duel. And after her father exchanges Cressida for a Trojan prisoner, the war becomes personal for her distraught lover Troilus.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-11-07
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A Hard Day's Night
Overview: Capturing John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr in their electrifying element, 'A Hard Day's Night' is a wildly irreverent journey through this pastiche of a day in the life of The Beatles during 1964. The band have to use all their guile and wit to avoid the pursuing fans and press to reach their scheduled television performance, in spite of Paul's troublemaking grandfather and Ringo's arrest.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-07-07
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George Grosz: Enemy of the State
Overview: Dramatized documentary about the life of the painter George Grosz.
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Original Language: en
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Theban Plays: Oedipus at Colonus
Overview: Oedipus's wanderings come to an end when he finds his final resting place, as foretold by the gods. But his brother-in-law and his son each try to take him away.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-09-17
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Robin and Marian
Overview: Robin Hood, aging none too gracefully, returns exhausted from the Crusades to woo and win Maid Marian one last time.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-03-11
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Weekend at Dunkirk
Overview: In June 1940, during the Dunkirk evacuation of Allied troops to England, French sergeant Julien Maillat and his men debate whether to evacuate to Britain or stay and fight the German troops that are closing-in from all directions.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-12-18
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A Walk in the Sun
Overview: Tore Andersson is a depressed 43 year old sport journalist living in Stockholm. His girlfriend has left him so he decides to take a vacation in Cyprus.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1978-12-25
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Saint Joan
Overview: Young Joan of Arc comes to the palace in France to make The Dauphin King of France and is appointed to head the French Army. After winning many battles she is not needed any longer and soon she is thought of as a witch.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-05-08
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Shuttlecock
Overview: Major James Prentis VC is a British spy of World War II and war hero who goes under the code name of "Shuttlecock". Alienated from his family and children, he ends up in a mental institution in Lisbon, Portugal.
Genres: Drama Mystery War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-04-07
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A Good Human Story
Overview: A trio of journalists look into the murder of a young girl in a seaside town. For the men though it’s more about who gets the big story than solving the crime. (Memorable TV)
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-07-17
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The Last Invasion
Overview: A film following Harold II at the Battle of Hastings
Genres: History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-08-24
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Ten Little Indians
Overview: Ten strangers are invited to a mansion on a remote island, where they are killed one by one by a mysterious assailant. Based on the Agatha Christie novel, also known by the title And Then There Were None.
Genres: Mystery Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-01-18
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Weekend
Overview: A weekend at a winter seaside hotel, which includes a chance meeting with the elegant Liz Perrin, could help playwright David Austin to recharge his creative batteries. Maybe there are other things in his life that need recharging, or indeed rethinking.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-20
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Dad
Overview: 'Listen Dad, it's me, Tom. I know you recognise me. Why don't you speak? Just say my name. Tom.' Dad's bewildering silence forces the family to face truths they would rather forget.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-04-23
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