Maurice Roëves
Also Known As: Maurice Roëves
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Maurice Roëves is a Scottish actor, born in Sunderland, County Durham (now Tyne and Wear) on 19 March 1937. His television roles include Danger UXB (1979), The Nightmare Man (1981), the 1984 Doctor Who serial The Caves of Androzani, Days of our Lives (1986), Tutti Frutti (1987), Rab C. Nesbitt (1990), The New Statesman (1990), Spender (1991), Star Trek: The Next Generation, the BBC adaptation of Vanity Fair (1998) and EastEnders (2003). He also played Chief Superintendent David Duckenfield in the 1996 television film Hillsborough, in which his character patrolled the FA Cup semi-final in the Liverpool F.C. game where a crush (blame on loss of police control) led to the deaths of 96 fans. In 2006 he starred in the BBC docudrama Surviving Disasters, portraying Sir Matt Busby in the story of the Munich air disaster. He starred as Robert Henderson in BBC Scotland's drama River City. His film roles include Oh! What a Lovely War, Ulysses, Hidden Agenda, the 1992 version of The Last of the Mohicans, the Judge Dredd movie (1995) and Beautiful Creatures (2000). In 2003 he appeared in May Miles Thomas's film Solid Air. Description above from the Wikipedia article Maurice Roëves, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Sunderland, Tyne-and-Wear, England, UK
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Birthday: March 19, 1937
Age: 88 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: July 14, 2020
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The Dark
Overview: In an attempt to pull her family together, Adèlle travels with her young daughter Sarah to Wales to visit her father. The morning after they arrive, Sarah mysteriously vanishes in the ocean. Not long after, a little girl bearing a striking resemblance to their missing daughter reveals that she has retuned from the dead — and that Sarah has been taken to the Welsh underworld.
Genres: Horror Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-28
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Hallam Foe
Overview: Hallam's talent for spying on people reveals his darkest fears-and his most peculiar desires. Driven to expose the true cause of his mother's death, he instead finds himself searching the rooftops of the city for love.
Genres: Drama Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-02-16
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David
Overview: A distinguished military leader whose reign was touched by great scandal, shocking betrayals and rousing victories. A simple shepherd boy chosen to be king, under the watchful eyes of prophet Samuel.
Genres: Adventure Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-03-23
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Oh! What a Lovely War
Overview: The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the three boys of the family witness the harsh reality of trench warfare.
Genres: Comedy Music War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-03-10
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The Eagle Has Landed
Overview: When the Nazi high command learns in late 1943 that Winston Churchill will be spending time at a country estate in Norfolk, it hatches an audacious scheme to kidnap the prime minister and spirit him to Germany for enforced negotiations with Hitler.
Genres: Adventure Drama Action Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-24
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The Damned United
Overview: Taking over Leeds United, Brian Clough's abrasive approach and his clear dislike of the players' dirty style of play make it certain there is going to be friction. Glimpses of his earlier career help explain both his hostility to previous manager Don Revie and how much he is missing right-hand man Peter Taylor.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-03-27
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Making The Last of the Mohicans
Overview: Interviews with the cast and crew of the 1992 Michael Mann film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-10-03
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The Acid House
Overview: A surreal triptych adapted by "Trainspotting" author Irvine Welsh from his acclaimed collection of short stories. Combining a vicious sense of humor with hard-talking drama, the film reaches into the hearts and minds of the chemical generation, casting a dark and unholy light into the hidden corners of the human psyche.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-12-31
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Judge Dredd
Overview: In a dystopian future, Dredd, the most famous judge (a cop with instant field judiciary powers) is convicted for a crime he did not commit while his murderous counterpart escapes.
Genres: Science Fiction Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-06-30
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The Last of the Mohicans
Overview: In war-torn colonial America, in the midst of a bloody battle between British, the French and Native American allies, the aristocratic daughter of a British Colonel and her party are captured by a group of Huron warriors. Fortunately, a group of three Mohican trappers comes to their rescue.
Genres: Action History Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-08-26
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Family
Overview: Marion loses her job as a psychiatric nurse, but cannot let go of her responsibility for former patient, Thomas. When he goes on the run, Marion sets out to find him and learns a painful truth about her marriage and her life as a carer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-08-22
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Beautiful Creatures
Overview: When Petula and Dorothy cover up the accidental murder of one jerk boyfriend, they hatch a hilarious scheme to collect a huge ransom.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-08-23
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Cock, Hen and Courting Pit
Overview: A couple revisit a past love affair when they meet again ten years later.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-06-22
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Who Dares Wins
Overview: When SAS Captain Peter Skellen is thrown out of the service for gross misconduct due to unnecessary violence and bullying, he is soon recruited by The People's Lobby, a fanatical group aiming to hold several US dignitaries hostage. But Skellen's dismissal is a front to enable him to get close to the terrorist group. Can he get close enough to stop the Lobby from creating an international incident?
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-08-26
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Ulysses
Overview: Dublin; June 16, 1904. Stephen Dedalus, who fancies himself as a poet, embarks on a day of wandering about the city during which he finds friendship and a father figure in Leopold Bloom, a middle-aged Jew. Meanwhile, Bloom's day, illuminated by a funeral and an evening of drinking and revelry that stirs paternal feelings toward Stephen, ends with a rapprochement with Molly, his earthy wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-03-14
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Forgive and Forget
Overview: David O'Neil, a plasterer and mature student Theo have been best mates for fourteen years and are practically inseparable. However, their friendship has become strained as Theo is about to move in with his long-term girlfriend, photographer Hannah. A raging jealousy awakes in David and he starts scheming to break up the loving couple using Hannah's insecurities against them. When the couple eventually separate David is in a quandary about his next move and is forced to confront his long-hidden homosexuality and feelings towards Theo. Eventually, David decides to reveal his sexual orientation and deep love for Theo very publicly by arranging for them both to appear as guests on Judith Adams' talk-show, "forgive and forget", with tragic consequences for their friendship and David's family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-06-12
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The Journal of Bridget Hitler
Overview: An Irishwoman married to a German in pre-First World War Liverpool prepares to meet her brother-in-law – a young man named Adolf Hitler. Years later she is interviewed on television about her life. Part of the BBC2 Playhouse strand.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-02-06
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Highlands
Overview: The industries of the Scottish Highlands.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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919 Fifth Avenue
Overview: When Ben Constant agreed to write a biography on the wealthy Van Degan family, he never suspected the depth of scandal and intrigue surrounding them.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Mackintosh
Overview: The life and work of the Scottish architect and artist Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Doctor Who: The Caves of Androzani
Overview: Arriving on the barren world of Androzani Minor, the Doctor and Peri find themselves embroiled in a long running, literal underground war. At the heart of the conflict is a substance called Spectrox - both valuable and deadly! The Doctor & Peri wind up being poisoned by the material, which is killing them slowly and painfully unless they can find a cure. As the conflict heats up and the situation gets more desperate, the Doctor realises time is running out - both for Peri and himself...
Genres: Adventure Drama Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-03-16
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S.O.S. Titanic
Overview: The Titanic disaster as seen through the eyes of one couple in each of the three classes on board.
Genres: History Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-02-29
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Murder: The Third Voice
Overview: When Rafe Carey’s body is washed up by the River Tweed, it looks like he’s drowned in a tragic accident on a day of extreme weather. He and his brother-in-law Leo Durridge were swept away when the section of riverbank they were fishing from collapsed. Leo fought his way to the shallows and is in hospital with cuts and bruises - Rafe wasn’t so lucky. But when detective Corinne Evans investigates, she finds the cause of Rafe’s death isn’t drowning at all - he’s been stabbed through the heart, and Leo is the prime suspect. While he claims that he and Rafe were the only ones by the river on that stormy day, but a witness says he heard three voices, and forensic examination of the scene reveals three sets of bootprints.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-03-03
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Hillsborough
Overview: Drama based on the real life events of April 1989, when ninety-six Liverpool supporters were crushed to death during an F.A. Cup Semi-Final match against Nottingham Forest at Sheffield Wednesday's Hillsborough Stadium. This movie follows three Liverpudlian families before the match, during the tragedy and at the ensuing court battles which tried to decide who was to blame and what went wrong.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-11
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Hidden Agenda
Overview: In Ireland, American lawyer Ingrid Jessner and her activist partner, Paul Sullivan, struggle to uncover atrocities committed by the British government against the Northern Irish during the "Troubles." But when Sullivan is assassinated in the streets, Jessner teams up with Peter Kerrigan, a British investigator acting against the will of his own government, and struggles to uncover a conspiracy that may even implicate one of Kerrigan's colleagues.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-11-21
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A Day at the Beach
Overview: Bernie is a silver tongued wanderer with a fondness for drink and no clear goal in life. What was supposed to be a day of fun at the seaside turns to dust as he drinks his way through a seaside resort community, trailing his little niece Winnie.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-05-01
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Brighton Rock
Overview: Charts the headlong fall of Pinkie, a razor-wielding disadvantaged teenager with a religious death wish.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-09-13
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Macbeth
Overview: Feature film adaptation of Shakespeare's Scottish play about General Macbeth whose ambitious wife urges him to use wicked means in order to gain power of the throne over the sitting king, Duncan.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-09-22
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The Big Man
Overview: An unemployed Scottish miner is forced into bare-knuckle boxing to make ends meet.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-08-31
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When Eight Bells Toll
Overview: In a vein similar to Bond movies, a British agent Philip Calvert is on a mission to determine the whereabouts of a ship that disappeared near the coast of Scotland.
Genres: Action Thriller Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-03-09
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The Sight
Overview: The American successful architect Michael Lewis travels to London with his partner and friend, the builder Jake, to refurbish an old hotel. Michael is having successive nightmares, and once in London, he realizes that twenty-one spirits are trying to contact him to solve murders of a serial killer. Michael, with the support of Jake, Detective Pryce and the ghosts, try to avoid the ninth crime and find the serial-killer.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-10-29
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Luna
Overview: Renowned artist and filmmaker Dave McKean (MirrorMask) brings his distinctive blend of live action and gorgeously wrought animation to this dreamlike reverie about four people whose weekend idyll in an isolated English seaside home becomes an opportunity for spiritual healing.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-09-26
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The Nightmare Man
Overview: A heavy fog cuts the small isolated Scottish island off from the mainland, and dentist Michael Gaffikin has just discovered a dismembered corpse on the golf links. Michael and his artist girlfriend, Fiona Patterson, assist the local law enforcements in searching for the murderer. However, as the body count rises and the surrounding circumstances turn increasingly bizarre and gruesome, everyone begins to wonder if the killer is a human or an unimaginable creature...
Genres: Horror Mystery Fantasy Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-05-01
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Fast Track: No Limits
Overview: An action movie centered around a group of street racers.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-02-21
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Orkney
Overview: Three stories reflecting life in the Orkney Islands, two set in the past, and one in the present.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-05-13
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The Operation
Overview: David Adler is an operator. He strips assets, other men's wives, and his oldest friend's soul - anything for a cool million.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-02-26
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Twelfth Night
Overview: Viola and Sebastian are lookalike twins, separated by a shipwreck. Viola lands in Illyria, where she disguises herself like her brother and goes into the service of the Duke Orsino. Orsino sends her to help him woo the Lady Olivia, who doesn't want the Duke, but finds that she likes the new messenger the Duke's sending. Then, of course, Viola's brother shows up, and merry hell breaks loose. Meanwhile, Olivia's uncle and his cohorts are trying to find some way to get back at Olivia's officious majordomo, Malvolio.
Genres: Comedy Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-06
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The Negotiator
Overview: A serious heart condition puts an end to Charlie King's job as a "street copper", but he refuses the offer of a desk job and a promotion. When a secret team of negotiators approaches him with the offer of a job, he's intrigued, but who is he dealing with?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-05-31
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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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Escape to Victory
Overview: A group of POWs in a German prison camp during World War II play the German National Soccer Team in this powerful film depicting the role of prisoners during wartime.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-06-17
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Inside the Third Reich
Overview: A dramatization of the life of Albert Speer, Hitler's young architect and onetime confidant, and his meteoric rise into the Nazi hierarchy. Based upon Speer's own monograph of the same title.
Genres: History War Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-05-09
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Solid Air
Overview: Seeking refuge, compulsive gambler Robert Houston Junior comes home to his estranged father, Robert Senior. Discovering a lapsed compensation claim for asbestosis, Junior resolves to pursue the case, encountering the young, ambitious lawyer Nicola Blyth who tells him he must produce a witness to testify on his father's behalf. Beneath Junior's altruism lies an uncomfortable truth. In debt and on the run from wealthy businessman, John Doran, following a disastrous loss at the poker table, Junior's only hope is to get his hands on his father's settlement. But hope, like luck, is in short supply. As father and son set out to find the witness, suspicion turns to torment as Robert learns of his son's motives and the true cost of Junior's betrayal is revealed.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-08-22
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The Fighting Prince of Donegal
Overview: Ireland 1587. Hugh O'Donnell inherits the title of The O'Donnell, the prince of Donegal, and tries to unite Ireland to make war on England. But then Hugh is kidnapped and imprisoned by the Viceroy of Ireland and held ransom for the Clans' good behavior. Hugh must escape prison and the Viceroy's villainous henchman, Captain Leeds, before he can fight.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-10-01
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Willie Rough
Overview: In the dark days of 1914 Willie Rough set out to find work in Greenock. He becomes a shipbuilding shop steward and soon finds himself involved in a bitter political and industrial conflict.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-03-09
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Unreported Incident
Overview: Jack Lawrence and Jimmy Dunne were once, briefly, enemies at opposite ends of a gun on the Irish border; now their lives have become inextricably mixed. They are together on a chat show whose host wants a sob story with a happy ending, but gets something entirely different.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-02-23
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Heather Ann
Overview: Cornish fisherman John Lewis is waiting for a stroke of luck which will give him the money to pay his debts and rid himself of his wife and his trawler Heather Ann. One day he nets a torpedo...
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-06-30
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Young Winston
Overview: This historical drama is an account of the early life of British politician Winston Churchill, including his childhood years, his time as a war correspondent in Africa, and culminating with his first election to Parliament.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-07-20
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Guardians
Overview: Jim Reed, a detective, investigates a case of alleged child abuse. But remaining psychologically detached proves difficult. Soon, Jim finds himself questioning his relationships with his father and his two young sons Colin and Tom.
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Original Language: en
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Moses
Overview: An ordinary man is called upon by God to do the impossible in this lovingly told production of the Old Testament story. When the Pharaoh of Egypt begins to tighten the noose on his Jewish slaves, Moses leads them to freedom.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-18
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Chain Reaction
Overview: The cast and crew of The Caves of Androzani look back on the making of a legendary story.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-10-04
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