Ian Hendry
Also Known As: Ian Mackendrick Hendry
Biography: Ian Hendry (13 January 1931 – 24 December 1984) was an English film and television actor. He is best known for his work on several British TV series of the early 1960s such as The Avengers, and for his roles in 1970s films such as Get Carter (1971). Description above from the Wikipedia article Ian Hendry, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Ipswich, Suffolk, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: January 13, 1931
Age: 94 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: December 24, 1984
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Get Carter
Overview: Jack Carter is a small-time hood working in London. When word reaches him of his brother's death, he travels to Newcastle to attend the funeral. Refusing to accept the police report of suicide, Carter seeks out his brother’s friends and acquaintances to learn who murdered his sibling and why.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-02-03
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Children of the Damned
Overview: Six children are found spread through out the world that not only have enormous intelligence, but identical intelligence and have a strange bond to each other.
Genres: Drama Horror Mystery Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-10
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Repulsion
Overview: Beautiful young manicurist Carole suffers from androphobia (the pathological fear of interaction with men). When her sister and roommate, Helen, leaves their London flat to go on an Italian holiday with her married boyfriend, Carole withdraws into her apartment. She begins to experience frightful hallucinations, her fear gradually mutating into madness.
Genres: Drama Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-06-01
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The Hill
Overview: North Africa, World War II. British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to struggle up a brutal incline. It's not a military objective. It's The Hill, a manmade instrument of torture, a tower of sand seared by a white-hot sun. And the troops' tormentors are not the enemy, but their own comrades-at-arms.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-06-17
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The Passenger
Overview: David Locke is a world-weary American journalist who has been sent to cover a conflict in northern Africa, but he makes little progress with the story. When he discovers the body of a stranger who looks similar to him, Locke assumes the dead man's identity. However, he soon finds out that the man was an arms dealer, leading Locke into dangerous situations. Aided by a beautiful woman, Locke attempts to avoid both the police and criminals out to get him.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-02-28
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Doppelgänger
Overview: A planet is discovered in the same orbit as Earth's but is located on the exact opposite side of the sun, making it not visible from Earth. The European Space Exploration Council decide to send American astronaut Glenn Ross and British scientist John Kane via spaceship to explore the other planet.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-08-27
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Theatre of Blood
Overview: A Shakespearean actor takes poetic revenge on the critics who denied him recognition.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-16
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Room at the Top
Overview: An ambitious young accountant schemes to wed a wealthy factory owner's daughter, despite falling in love with a married older woman.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-12-29
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The Southern Star
Overview: Comedy adventure based on a Jules Verne novel about the ups and downs of jewel thieves in the wilds of Africa circa 1900. George Segal is the appealing hero-heel and Ursula Andress is visually stunning as the lady in the proceedings. Orson Welles has a small role.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-03-04
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The McKenzie Break
Overview: A German U-Boat commander plans a daring escape from a PoW camp in Scotland.
Genres: Action War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-10-28
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Tales from the Crypt
Overview: Five people find themselves in a tomb. The Crypt keeper explains why they are there through a series of frightening stories. Based on the classic comic book.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-03-09
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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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Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter
Overview: When several young girls are found dead, left hideously aged and void of blood, Dr. Marcus suspects vampirism. He enlists the help of the Vampire Hunter. Mysterious and powerful, Kronos has dedicated his life to destroying the evil pestilence. Once a victim of its diabolical depravity, he knows the vampire's strengths and weaknesses as well as the extreme dangers attached to confronting the potent forces of darkness.
Genres: Adventure Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-04-07
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Afternoon of a Nymph
Overview: An agent invites his young starlet to a party, to meet all the right people. A chance to move on from the commercials she has been doing, to bigger roles and maybe stardom. However while she is there, she realizes there is a price to pay...
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-09-30
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Girl in the Headlines
Overview: Called in to investigate the murder of a model, Chief Inspector Birkett and Sergeant Saunders soon discover that the victim had been leading somewhat of an immoral life.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-11-15
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The Internecine Project
Overview: Offered a job as a presidential adviser, a professor is forced to dispose of those who knew him when he was a spy.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-07-24
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Sink the Bismarck!
Overview: The story of the breakout of the German battleship Bismarck—accompanied by the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen—during the early days of World War II. The Bismarck and her sister ship, Tirpitz, were the most powerful battleships in the European theater of World War II. The British Navy must find and destroy Bismarck before it can escape into the convoy lanes to inflict severe damage on the cargo shipping which was the lifeblood of the British Isles. With eight 15 inch guns, it was capable of destroying every ship in a convoy while remaining beyond the range of all Royal Navy warships.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-02-11
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This Is My Street
Overview: A bored housewife has an affair with her mother's lodger.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-15
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Live Now - Pay Later
Overview: Albert, a cheeky, womanising, door-to door salesman, with a never-take-no-for-an-answer attitude, lives his life for the moment, and with no thought of his future, or the consequences of his actions on the people he encounters.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-08-31
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The Beauty Jungle
Overview: A Bristol typist joins the world of beauty contests.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-08-25
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All Coppers Are...
Overview: A young policeman and a small-time crook are both involved with the same girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-24
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The Ginger Man
Overview: The often racy misadventures of Sebastian Dangerfield, a young American living in Dublin with his English wife and infant daughter and studying law at Trinity College.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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The Jerusalem File
Overview: An American student starts working with his Arab colleague while putting all politics aside. However, is his colleague just a regular Joe? Set around the time of Arab-Israeli Six Day War.
Genres: Thriller Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-02-02
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In The Nick
Overview: A gang of smalltime criminals is sent to an experimental prison where inmates are to be reformed, not punished.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-06-17
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The Tycoon
Overview: When millionaire businessman Guy Taylor takes up with the beautiful Rachel Bell, two years married to a struggling sculptor, he starts to question what he really wants. TV play. Third part of writer Kenneth Jupp's "Chelsea Trilogy"; see also The PHOTOGRAPHER (tx 29/1/1968) and The EXPLORER/ PLAYHOUSE (tx 14/10/1968).
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-30
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The High Game
Overview: The owner of a drinking club in London's Shepherd Market becomes invovled in a game of intrigue, blackmail and murder.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-08-03
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Miss Julie
Overview: Miss Julie has a torrid, strange relationship with her servant, Jean.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-10-03
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Intimate Games
Overview: A university professor opens a sexual Pandora's box when he hands his class an assignment to explore their deepest carnal fantasies and desires. As the students begin to plumb their secret passions, they find themselves propelled into an erotic world where theory soon yields to practice.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-05-31
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Alice Through the Looking Box
Overview: A Christmas TV special in which Alice does not go through a looking glass, but through a TV set.
Genres: TV Movie Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-12-25
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McVicar
Overview: John McVicar was a London Bad Boy. he graduated to armed bank robbery and was Britain's "Public Enemy No. 1". He was captured and put into a high security prison. Will even the highest security prison be able to hold him? This is the true story of his life, his criminal exploits and his eventual rehabilitation.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-08-01
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Assassin
Overview: When the British government orders the assassination of an Air Ministry official suspected of leaking top secret intel, their top assassin assigned to the job discovers there may be more to the hit than meets the eye.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-11-01
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Los traidores de San Ángel
Overview: Henchmen of the dictator from a South American country blackmail Nick Thomas into being a government spy. The former smuggler is to pose as a priest and enter a monastery thought to be sympathetic with rebel guerrillas. The release of the film coincided with real-life events, as Catholic priests continued to be the victims of government persecution throughout Latin America.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1967-10-16
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Damien - Omen II
Overview: Since the sudden and suspicious deaths of his parents, young Damien has been in the charge of his wealthy aunt and uncle and enrolled in a military school. Widely feared to be the Antichrist, he relentlessly plots to seize control of his uncle's business empire — and the world.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-06-09
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Vendetta for The Saint
Overview: Simon Templar is on holiday in Naples when a small uproar on a lunch table draws his attention. An English tourist attempts to greet an Italian businessman as an old friend, but the Italian refuses to acknowledge the greeting and claims never to have met him.
Genres: Thriller Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-01-05
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The Sandwich Man
Overview: A man with a sandwich-board (advert) wanders around London meeting many strange characters.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-07-01
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Cry WoIf
Overview: A highly imaginative boy involves his friends in a series of false alarms, with the result that nobody will come to his aid when he is involved in a dangerous situation.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-01
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A Splinter of Ice
Overview: Fay Weldon's play about adultery, middle age, and ambition.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-05-29
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Simon and Laura
Overview: A couple of bickering, married performers agree to star in a "Mr. and Mrs." TV show.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-11-02
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The Secret Place
Overview: British Melodrama and crime thriller that follows a group of jewel robbers after a major heist. The film makes extensive use of bombed out areas of London.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-02-06
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Casino Royale
Overview: Sir James Bond is called back out of retirement to stop SMERSH. In order to trick SMERSH, James thinks up the ultimate plan - that every agent will be named 'James Bond'. One of the Bonds, whose real name is Evelyn Tremble is sent to take on Le Chiffre in a game of baccarat, but all the Bonds get more than they can handle.
Genres: Adventure Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-04-13
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A Killer With Two Faces
Overview: A crazed killer escapes from an asylum and assumes the identity of his twin brother, a famous and respected architect.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-12-03
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Crest of a Wave
Overview: Recently made redundant, Jim takes his wife Bridget to meet his old scouting pal Nifty. As well as campfire memories to swop, there just might be the possibility of a job.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-09-18
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