Michael Elwyn
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Welsh character actor of stage and screen. Since 1995, Elwyn has been the partner of the actress Alison Steadman.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Pontypridd, Glamorgan, Wales, UK
Birthday: August 23, 1942
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Gender: Male
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National Theatre Live: Under Milk Wood
Overview: A community is sleeping. If you listen closely, you can hear their dreams. The retired sea captain yearning for his lost love. The landlady living in terror of her guests. A father who can no longer access his memories. A son in search of redemption. As they awake to boiled eggs and the postman, the residents of a small Welsh village juggle old secrets and new realities.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-06-16
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Shadow Man
Overview: An intelligence operative discovers that no one is what they seem in the shadowy world of espionage.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-09-05
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National Theatre Live: The Audience
Overview: For sixty years, Elizabeth II has met each of her twelve Prime Ministers in a weekly audience at Buckingham Palace, a meeting like no other in British public life, it is private.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-06-12
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Decline and Fall ...of a Birdwatcher
Overview: A young man's attempts at seduction and social climbing lead to mayhem.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-10-30
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A Pleasant Terror: The Life and Ghosts of M.R. James
Overview: A biopic on the author M. R. James. If M.R. James wrote his ghost stories purely to entertain his friends, why do they seem to strike such resonances in readers? Why are they so terrifying? Clive Dunn's fifty minute documentary sets out to try to answer this question. In the words of its fictional narrator, nicely played by Dangerfield's Bill Wallis, "was there something that made [Monty James] believe that evil and malice could become palpable?"
Genres: Documentary Horror History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-28
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One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing
Overview: Escaping from China with a microfilm of the formula for the mysterious "Lotus X", Lord Southmere, a Queen's Messenger, is chased by a group of Chinese spies.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Drama Family Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-07-09
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Surveillance 24/7
Overview: Our hero Adam gets drawn into a web of intrigue as evidence is planted on him of a gay royal affair.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-06-11
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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).
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-30
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Byron
Overview: Life and adventures of lord George Gordon Byron. BBC dramatization of the poet's final thirteen years
Genres: Drama Romance History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-27
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U Be Dead
Overview: A doctor and his girlfriend are stalked by a woman who claims to be in love with him. Meanwhile, the man falls in love with a younger woman. Based on a true story
Genres: Thriller TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-07-05
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Bertie and Elizabeth
Overview: The duke of York, nicknamed Bertie, was born as royal 'spare heir', younger brother to the prince of Wales, and thus expected to spend a relatively private life with his Scottish wife Elisabeth Bowes-Lyon and their daughters, in the shadow of their reigning father, George V, and next that of his elder brother who succeeded to the British throne as Edward VIII. However Edward decides to put his love for a divorced American, Wallis Simpson, above dynastic duty, and ends up abdicating the throne, which now falls to Bertie, who reigns as George VI.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-06-04
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A Touch of Class
Overview: Steve, a happily married American man living in London meets Vicki, an English divorcée and run off to Marbella for a rollicking week of sex. They then return to London to set up a cozy menage, despite the fact that he loves his wife and children, and now realize that he and Vicki have also fallen in love.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-05-25
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The Queen's Sister
Overview: An in-depth biopic of Princess Margaret from the days following her father's death in 1952 until the 1970s. She was known to be a flamboyant royal but she remained a stickler for protocol. She had many controversial romances and also infamously kissed the daughter of the US ambassador. Also the film gives some focus on what others thought of Margaret, from normal people of the era to a backbench MP opposed to her 1961 wedding. Written by Reece Lloyd
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-11-26
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Land of Green Ginger
Overview: Faced with the prospect of being sent to work abroad, Sally Brown returns home from London to Hull, to see if she still feels the same attachment for her home town - and for her old boyfriend Mike Thurlow. Will she decide to take the job abroad or return to live with Mike in Hull?
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-15
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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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The Mallen Curse
Overview: The fourth and final instalment of the Mallen family saga. Barbara, rejected by Michael, enters into a loveless marriage with a son of the Benshams, who now own Squire Thomas' former home, High Banks. Meanwhile, Mr Bensham proposes to Anna Brigmore, Barbara's former governess, who has a burning ambition to become mistress of the house.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-06-18
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The Pilgrims
Overview: Arguably one of the most fateful and resonant events of the last half millennium, the Pilgrims journey west across the Atlantic in the early 17th century is a seminal, if often misunderstood episode of American and world history. The Pilgrims explores the forces, circumstances, personalities and events that converged to exile the English group in Holland and eventually propel their crossing to the New World; a story universally familiar in broad outline, but almost entirely unfamiliar to a general audience in its rich and compelling historical actuality. Includes the real history of the "first thanksgiving".
Genres: History Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-11-24
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Sharpe's Challenge
Overview: Sean Bean is back as the swashbuckling hero in Sharpe's Challenge, an action packed mini-series to be shot on location in Rajasthan, India. Two years after the Duke of Wellington crushes Napoleon at Waterloo, dispatches from India tell of a local Maharaja, Khande Rao, who is threatening British interests there. Wellington sends Sharpe to investigate on what turns out to be his most dangerous mission to date. When a beautiful general's daughter is kidnapped by the Indian warlord, the tension mounts, leaving Sharpe no option but to pursue the enemy right into its deadly lair. Deep in the heart of enemy territory he also has to keep at bay the beautiful but scheming Regent, Madhuvanthi, who is out to seduce him. The fate of an Empire and the life of a General's daughter lie in one man's hands...
Genres: War Action Adventure History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-04-23
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Jinnah
Overview: Biography of Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the founder of modern Pakistan is told through flashbacks as his soul tries to find eternal rest. The flashbacks start in 1947 as Jinnah pleads for a separate nation for the Muslim minority, infuriating Lord Mountbatten. Mountbatten then tries to enlist Gandhi & Nehru to persuade Jinnah to stop his efforts. Gandhi sides with Jinnah, which upsets Nehru. However, Jinnah turns down the offer to become prime minister and the film takes another slide back to 1916, which reveals all of the political implications that have occurred.
Genres: History War Drama
Original Language: ur
Release Date: 1998-11-07
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Florence Nightingale
Overview: This is the fact-based story of an aristocratic woman who defies Victorian society to reform hospital sanitation and to define the nursing profession as it is known today. After volunteering to travel to Scutari to care for the wounded soldiers, who are victims of the Crimean war, she finds herself very unwelcome and faces great opposition for her new way of thinking. However through her selfless acts of caring, she quickly becomes known as 'The Lady with the Lamp', the caring nurse whose shadow soldiers kiss.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-04-07
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Rare Beasts
Overview: Mandy is a mother, a writer, a nihilist. Mandy is a modern woman in a crisis. Raising a son in the midst of a female revolution, mining the pain of her parents' separation and professionally writing about a love that no longer exists, she falls upon a troubled man, Pete, who’s searching for a sense of worth, belonging and ‘restored’ Male identity.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-05-21
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Plain Jane
Overview: Drama set in 1911 about a love triangle concerning a father, his son and their maid, Jane.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-05-27
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Half Moon Street
Overview: Dr. Lauren Slaughter, a research fellow at the Arab-Anglo Institute in London is utterly frustrated by her job. To supplement her income, she starts moonlighting at the Jasmine Escort Service, where she has more control over men and money than she does at the office. On one of her 'dates', Lauren meets the politician Lord Bulbeck who is trying to mediate a peace accord between the Arabs and Israelis. Bulbeck falls in love with his escort, and unwittingly, Lauren becomes a pawn in some very dirty politics.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-08-13
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The French Lieutenant's Woman
Overview: In this story-within-a-story, Anna is an actress starring opposite Mike in a period piece about the forbidden love between their respective characters, Sarah and Charles. Both actors are involved in serious relationships, but the passionate nature of the script leads to an off-camera love affair as well. While attempting to maintain their composure and professionalism, Anna and Mike struggle to come to terms with their infidelity.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-08-28
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7lives
Overview: A disgruntled married man called Tom believes that there is a better life for him out there somewhere. On his way home one night he gets attacked and falls into a parallel world where he lives 6 other lives including a Rock-Star, A homeless person and the 'hoody' that attacked him. These lives help him to re-evaluate his priorities and values but in order to get home he must face some of his deepest fears and desires. Will he make it home or is the grass greener on the other side?
Genres: Drama Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-09-18
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Doctor Who: The Highlanders
Overview: The time travellers arrive in Scotland just after the Battle of Culloden. The Second Doctor gains the trust of a small band of fleeing Jacobites by offering to tend to their wounded Laird, Colin McLaren. While Polly and the Laird's daughter, Kirsty, are away fetching water, he and the others are all captured by Redcoat troops commanded by Lieutenant Algernon Ffinch.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-01-07
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The Folk Singer
Overview: A successful folk singer and his entourage are locked down in a Belfast hotel during the Troubles, as the authorities demand he identifies himself as either a Catholic atheist or a Protestant atheist.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-11-07
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Crimestrike
Overview: What would happen if the nation’s criminals decided to go on strike? A comedy drama based on an idea by Czech writer Jaroslav Hasek.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-10-01
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The Mallens
Overview: Adaptation of the Mallen series of novels by Catherine Cookson.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-06-10
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The Late Nancy Irving
Overview: A famous US golfer with an extremely rare blood type is taken to a private hospital after falling ill. Her recovery prolongs and she befriends the people there. One day, she sees a TV news report on her death and realizes she's trapped.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-11-26
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Dot the I
Overview: Young lovers in London are wrapped up in a love triangle that may not be exactly what it seems. Carmen, a beautiful Spanish woman with a tendency to lose her temper at the drop of a hat, is about to be married to Barnaby, a caring, wealthy, but slightly boring Englishman. While out with friends on her 'hen night' she encounters a stranger who suddenly sparks a passion that has been sleeping within her. As her wedding date approaches, she finds herself struggling to put this newcomer out of her mind, but his effect on her keeps growing stronger. What is it that he sees in her, and why does she feel like she's being pushed inevitably into his arms?
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-18
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The Iron Lady
Overview: A look at the life of Margaret Thatcher, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, with a focus on the price she paid for power.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-12-26
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