Jill Balcon
Also Known As: Jill Angela Henriette Balcon
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Westminster, London, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: January 03, 1925
Age: 100 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: July 18, 2009
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Saraband for Dead Lovers
Overview: Sophie Dorothea is a young woman forced into a loveless marriage with Prince George Louis of Hanover. George Louis is later crowned King George I of England. Despairing of ever experiencing true love, the depressed queen finds life at court no solace. Sophie then falls for a dashing Swedish soldier of fortune, Count Konigsmark.
Genres: Romance History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-04
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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Overview: A fatherless boy tries to make his fortune despite interference from his rich uncle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-03-12
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Wittgenstein
Overview: A dramatization, in modern theatrical style, of the life and thought of the Viennese-born, Cambridge-educated philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, whose principal interest was the nature and limits of language. A series of sketches depict the unfolding of his life from boyhood, through the era of the first World War, to his eventual Cambridge professorship and association with Bertrand Russell and John Maynard Keynes. The emphasis in these sketches is on the exposition of the ideas of Wittgenstein, a homosexual, and an intuitive, moody, proud, and perfectionistic thinker generally regarded as a genius.
Genres: Drama History Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-03-26
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Forever Ealing
Overview: This is a history of the England's Ealing Film Studios, from its beginnings in 1902. It follows the studio's successes through the 1930's, World War II dramas, the well-known 'Ealing comedies' with Alec Guinness, and the BBC's television productions
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-12-05
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The Lost People
Overview: Set in a German theatre after the Second World War, two British soldiers are holding a disparate and hostile band of refugees in this theatre, prior to returning them to their homelands. The soldiers have difficulty dealing with the rivalries between Serb and Croat, resistance fighter and collaborator, Pole and Russian, etc. The threat of plague briefly unites them, but eventually even this wears off and the refugees unite in their hostility to the British.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-08-22
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A View of Harry Clark
Overview: Harry Clark is a social worker on the verge of cracking up. His job is to help other people: who is there to help him?
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-03-21
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Selling Hitler
Overview: In 1981, Gerd Heidemann, a war correspondent and reporter with the German magazine Stern, makes what he believes is the literary and historical scoop of the century: the personal diaries of Adolf Hitler. Over the next two years, Heidemann and the senior management figures at Stern secretly pay 10 million German marks to a mysterious 'Dr Fischer' for the sixty volumes of 'Hitler's diaries'. However, to the dismay of all, it is discovered after the publication of first extract that the diaries are crude forgeries, faked by Stuttgart criminal Konrad Kujau.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-06-11
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Edward II
Overview: England, 14th century. King Edward II falls in love with Piers Gaveston, a young man of humble origins, whom he honors with favors and titles of nobility. The cold and jealous Queen Isabella conspires with the evil Mortimer to get rid of Gaveston, overthrow her husband and take power…
Genres: History Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-11
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Good-Time Girl
Overview: Sent to a home for "problem" girls, incipient juvenile delinquent Gwen receives a crash course in petty crime. Back on the outside, she falls in with the usual bad crowd, and suffers spectacularly as a result.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-04-28
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The Fools on the Hill
Overview: This is a dramatisation of the events surrounding the opening night of British television on November 2, 1936 at Alexandra Place in London. It was produced to commemorate its 50th anniversary.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-10-27
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Highly Dangerous
Overview: A US newsman and a British entomologist spy on germ-warfare research in a mythical country.
Genres: Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-06
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Kitty Clive
Overview: A comedy about the celebrated 18th century comedienne, Kitty Clive.
Genres: Family Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-03-27
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