Norman Shelley
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Chelsea, London, England, UK
Birthday: February 16, 1903
Deathday: August 22, 1980
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Gender: Male
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Gulliver's Travels
Overview: Based on the novel of the same name by Jonathan Swift and built around the Lilliput and Blefuscu episode. It was made partly in live action and partly animated.
Genres: Fantasy Family Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-05-06
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I Know Where I'm Going!
Overview: Plucky Englishwoman Joan Webster travels to the remote islands of the Scottish Hebrides in order to marry a wealthy industrialist. Trapped by inclement weather on the Isle of Mull and unable to continue to her destination, Joan finds herself charmed by the straightforward, no-nonsense islanders around her, and becomes increasingly attracted to naval officer Torquil MacNeil, who holds a secret that may change her life forever.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-11-16
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The Angry Silence
Overview: When the union in his factory walks out on strike, a family man refuses to participate, risking the wrath — and retaliation — of his fellow workers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-03-10
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Dancing with Crime
Overview: When his best friend is murdered inside a London dancehall, a cab driver and his girlfriend involve themselves in the investigation and discover a major criminal operation hiding behind the club's friendly facade.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-06-25
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Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed
Overview: Blackmailing a young couple to assist with his horrific experiments the Baron, desperate for vital medical data, abducts a man from an insane asylum. On route the abductee dies and the Baron and his assistant transplant his brain into a corpse. The creature is tormented by a trapped soul in an alien shell and, after a visit to his wife who violently rejects his monstrous form, the creature wreaks his revenge on the perpetrator of his misery: Baron Frankenstein.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-05-22
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Daughter of Darkness
Overview: In Ballyconnen, Emmy Baudine is a beautiful but disturbed young woman who works for the local priest. When the carnival comes to town, she encounters a handsome young boxer called Dan and lays his face open with her fingernails when he expects sexual favors from her. Hurriedly packed off by Father Corcoran to Yorkshire, Emmy is taken in by a farming family and manages to suppress the strange feelings of fascination and repulsion that she experiences in the presence of the opposite sex. Until, that is, the carnival comes to town and brings with it the vengeful Dan...
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-01-21
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Strange Stories
Overview: 'Strange Stories' consists of two stories, 'The Strange Mr Bartleby' and 'The Strange Journey'. The stories were sometimes shown individually on television.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-01-01
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Blind Man's Bluff
Overview: Young Anthony Pendrell plays the precocious son of Scotland Yard inspector Norman Shelley. Pendrell's efforts to emulate his father usually results in nothing but irritation for his elders. But when a boarding house becomes the headquarters for a criminal gang, it is Pendrell who cracks the case.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-01-01
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A Place to Go
Overview: Set in contemporary Bethnal Green in east London, A Place to Go charts the dramatic changes that were happening in the lives of the British working-class at the time.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-07-01
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The Blue Lamp
Overview: P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the easy-going night beat. Dixon is a classic ordinary hero but also anachronistic, unprepared and unable to answer the violence of the 1950s.
Genres: Crime Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-01-19
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The Furry Folk on Holiday
Overview: Animal puppet cartoon demonstrating three aspects of accident prevention, not swimming whilst the tide goes out, not burying broken glass in the sand and remembering kerb drill. Produced as part of the Tufty child safety campaign.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-01-02
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Thread o' Scarlet
Overview: 'Innocent blacksmith hanged on circumstantial evidence.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-22
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Whatever Became of Me?
Overview: Peter feels his life has to change, but should he risk his marriage with another woman?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-08-29
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Her Favourite Husband
Overview: While casing a bank he intends to rob, gangster Leo discovers one of the clerks, Antonio, is his exact double. He kidnaps Antonio and robs the bank, posing as Antonio. But Leo hadn't accounted for the involvement of Antonio's wife, Dorothy.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-05-11
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They Came to a City
Overview: People from different walks of life mysteriously find themselves at the gate of an unknown city
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-08-21
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The General's Day
Overview: When Mrs Hinch, the sinister charlady, decides to move in, General Suffolk fights his last battle.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-11-20
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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 Iron Duke
Overview: The life and times of the Duke of Wellington
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-30
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Down River
Overview: A murderous skipper involved in dope trafficking.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-05-08
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East Lynne on the Western Front
Overview: During the First World War a group of British soldiers serving on the Western Front stage a comic performance of the play East Lynne to entertain their comrades.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-07-13
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Otley
Overview: A petty crook finds himself mistaken for a murderer and a secret agent.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-03-11
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The Monkey's Paw
Overview: A curio dealer sells a monkey's paw that can grant the possessor three wishes but warns that disaster will follow.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-06-01
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Vote for Huggett
Overview: A firm of solicitors do battle with the head of the local council over a parcel of river front land, owned by the Huggett family, in order to build a lido/community center.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-01
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Private Information
Overview: A woman suspects that the local council is corrupt and building defective drains that could cause public health issues.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-03-26
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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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Power Lines
Overview: The manufacture of cables for transmitting electric power is shown. Copper bars are rolled and drawn into wire, which is twisted into strands, and covered for insulation and protection with layers of rubber, lead, cloth and paper. The completed cables are then given high-voltage tests before being dispatched from the factory.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-04-08
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The Price of Silence
Overview: Roger Fenton has been released from prison and stared to build a new life. But his past catches up when an elderly visitor is murdered in his office.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-06-06
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I See a Dark Stranger
Overview: Proud Irishwoman Bridie Quilty journeys to Dublin while World War II rages across Europe. During her travels, she encounters J. Miller, who recruits her as a Nazi spy. She acquires the necessary information that leads to the breakout of a German spy who holds key information about the Allies' newest offensive plans. However, the arrival of British officer David Baynes and his romancing of Bridie lead to unexpected consequences.
Genres: Drama Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-07-04
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Strawberry Roan
Overview: Farmer Chris Lowe meets and falls in love with Molly , a chorus-girl. Despite the fact that she is a city girl through and through, she accepts his proposal of marriage and after the wedding goes to live on the farm. Chris realises that the transition for Molly will be difficult, and in an attempt to ease her into farm life, buys her a strawberry roan calf to look after. Unfortunately Molly finds the adjustment to rural life extremely difficult and does not settle down. She fails to integrate into the local community and starts to feel she has made a big mistake.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-12-31
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Religion and the People
Overview: Documentary by Andrew Buchanan illustrating a time when faith lay at the heart of the British Experience.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-01
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Lessons from the Air
Overview: Behind-the-scenes documentary about the making and broadcasting of pedagogical radio shows on the BBC.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-01
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Wuthering Heights
Overview: Adaptation of the novel by Emily Brontë.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-10-28
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The Blakes Slept Here
Overview: The story of a family house through four generations
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-09-08
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Enterprise
Overview: A BAFTA Special award nominated animated documentary that's based on the animated look at the annual report of ICI as shown in "Balance 1950" from 1951.
Genres: Animation Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-01-01
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