Bernard Kay
Also Known As: Bernard Frederic Bemrose Kay
Biography: Bernard Kay was a British actor with an extensive theatre, television and film repertoire.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Bolton, Lancashire, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: February 23, 1928
Age: 97 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: December 25, 2014
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Joy Division
Overview: A teenage orphan fights against the Red Army at the end of WWII and in the aftermath is 'adopted' by a Commissar. Years later he is sent to London during the Cold war to work for the KGB, where he questions his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-11-17
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Witchfinder General
Overview: England, 1645. The cruel civil war between Royalists and Parliamentarians that is ravaging the country causes an era of chaos and legal arbitrariness that allows unscrupulous men to profit by exploiting the absurd superstitions of the peasants; like Matthew Hopkins, a monster disguised as a man who wanders from town to town offering his services as a witch hunter.
Genres: Drama History Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-05-17
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Sakharov
Overview: Biography of Russian physicist & dissident Andrei Sakharov focuses on his first acts in his civil rights.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-06-20
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They Came from Beyond Space
Overview: A group of scientists are possessed by an alien force when they investigate a meteor shower in a rural field.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-05-01
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Trog
Overview: Anthropologist Dr. Brockton unearths a primitive troglodyte -- an Ice Age "missing link": half-caveman, half-ape -- in a local cave. Through medical experimentation, she manages to communicate with him and domesticate him before he's let loose by an irate land developer and goes on a rampage, terrorizing the local citizenry.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-10-24
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The Hiding Place
Overview: Corrie and Betsie ten Boom are middle-aged sisters working in their father's watchmaker shop in pre-World War II Holland. Their uneventful lives are disrupted with the coming of the Nazis. Suspected of hiding Jews and caught breaking rationing rules, they are sent to a concentration camp, where their Christian faith keeps them from despair and bitterness.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-05-04
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Bomber Harris
Overview: Biography of Arthur Harris (aka "Bomber Harris") of RAF Bomber Command, during WW2 - in particular his strategy of heavy bomber "Millenium Raids" on German cities.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-03
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Harlan County War
Overview: A Kentucky woman whose mine-worker husband is nearly killed in a cave-in, and whose father is slowly dying of black lung disease, joins the picket lines for a long, violent strike.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-05-19
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Luther
Overview: An epic drama of the 16th Century Catholic monk Martin Luther who started the Reformation.
Genres: History Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-29
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The Case of Marcel Duchamp
Overview: A witty, feature-length drama-documentary in which Marcel Duchamp, who once compared his own mind to that of a master criminal, is investigated by Sherlock Holmes. Holmes comes out of retirement, and with the assistance of Dr. Watson, proceeds to delve into the mystery of Duchamp’s major work, the once-notorious Large Glass (The Bride Stripped Bare by the Bachelors, even) 1915-23.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-04-08
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Kremlin Farewell
Overview: A drama of intrigue and betrayal in Stalin's Russia. Stepan grows up in an orphanage, learning to love Stalin as 'a father to all children'. He retains disturbing memories of the disappearance of his real father and, when a strange message is delivered to him, he's determined to find out the truth.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-04-01
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Interlude
Overview: A young female journalist in London falls in love with a married orchestra conductor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-05-01
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Spy Story
Overview: A nuclear war specialist returns from a mission gathering data on Soviet communications and electronic warfare techniques in the Arctic Ocean to find that his flat has been broken into and mysteriously re-decorated.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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The Hunting Party
Overview: A ruthless rancher, and his gang, use extremely long range rifles to kill the men who kidnapped his wife.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-07-16
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Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger
Overview: Princess Farah refuses to marry Sinbad until Prince Kassim, her brother, is able to give his consent. However, the Prince's wicked stepmother, Queen Zenobia, has changed Kassim into a baboon in order to have her own son crowned as caliph. Sinbad, his crew, the Princess and the transformed Prince travel to a distant land, fighting every obstacle Zenobia places in their path, to seek the advice of a legendary wise man who can possibly tell how to end the spell.
Genres: Action Adventure Family Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-07-15
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Torture Garden
Overview: Five people visit a fairground sideshow run by the sinister Dr. Diabolo. Having shown them a handful of haunted-house-style attractions, he promises them a genuinely scary experience if they will pay extra.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-11-01
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The Cellar and the Almond Tree
Overview: The Countess lives in her East European palace, oblivious to the new regime that has moved in. After the war Volubin, a Marxist writer, is instructed to obtain from her the keys to her wine-cellar, which are needed for a celebration dinner. First shown in 1970, this play charts the transition of dictatorial power in the 20th century.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-03-04
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South Riding
Overview: An adaptation of Winifred Holtby's classic novel
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-09-16
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Come Buttercup, Come Daisy, Come......?
Overview: Henry Wilkes cultivates rare tropical plants.The length to which he goes to propagate and nurture new hybrids alarms his wife.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-11-08
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Doctor Zhivago
Overview: The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-12-22
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In Possession
Overview: A terrified couple becomes trapped in what seems to be a replay of a sinister event that happened in their apartment in the past.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-10-22
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Carry On Sergeant
Overview: Sergeant Grimshawe wants to retire in the flush of success by winning the Star Squad prize with his very last platoon of newly called-up National Servicemen. But a motley bunch they turn out to be, and it's up to Grimshawe to put the no-hopers through their paces.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-08-31
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Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman
Overview: Following in his father's footsteps, Albert Pierrepoint becomes one of Britain's most prolific executioners, hiding his identity as a grocery deliveryman. But when his ambition to be the best inadvertently exposes his gruesome secret, he becomes a minor celebrity & faces a public outcry against the practice of hanging. Based on true events.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-12-07
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The Shuttered Room
Overview: In a small island off the American coast, the Whateleys live in an old mill where a mysterious bloody being creates an atmosphere of horror. After her parents get killed by lightning, young Susannah is sent to New York by her aunt Agatha, who wants her to avoid the family curse. Years later Susannah, now married, persuades her husband to spend a holiday in the abandoned mill. Once on the island, Susannah and Mike soon find themselves exposed to the hostility of a gang of thugs led by Ethan, Susannah's brutal cousin.
Genres: Drama Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-06-27
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The Great Riviera Bank Robbery
Overview: A group of fervent right wing French nationalists plan to finance a government coup and smash communists by pulling off a daring bank robbery.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-05-13
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Lady Caroline Lamb
Overview: Lady Caroline Lamb, dissatisfied in her marriage, has an affair with the dashing Romantic poet Lord Byron.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-11-22
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Sweeney!
Overview: When one of Regan's snouts complains that his girlfriend's recent suicide was murder, the flying squad detective feels compelled to investigate. He uncovers a conspiracy that reaches the heart of the government, and finds himself fitted up, suspended and under the scrutiny of Special Branch.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-01-14
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Voyage of the Damned
Overview: A luxury liner carries Jewish refugees from Hitler's Germany in a desperate fight for survival.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-22
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A Ghost in Monte Carlo
Overview: A chance meeting between British nobleman and lovely young Mistral foils a plot by her manipulating Aunt Emilie to avenge the death of her sister, Mistral's mother, who died in childbirth. But when an unscrupulous blackmailer and a rapacious Rajah enter the plot, the growing attraction between Lord and convent girl becomes yet more fraught with Danger.
Genres: Romance History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-04-02
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Doctor Who: The Dalek Invasion of Earth
Overview: The TARDIS arrives in a desolate future London, where the Doctor discovers his old enemies the Daleks have taken control of Earth.
Genres: Drama Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-12-26
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Doctor Who: The Crusade
Overview: In 12th century Palestine, the Doctor and his friends are drawn into the holy war between the forces of King Richard the Lionheart and the Saracen ruler Saladin.
Genres: History Action Adventure Science Fiction Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-04-17
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Doctor Who: The Faceless Ones
Overview: The TARDIS arrives on Earth in July, 1966, on a runway at Gatwick Airport. Polly witnesses a murder in a nearby hangar and is then kidnapped by the perpetrator, Spencer of Chameleon Tours. Ben also vanishes. The Second Doctor and Jamie are left to convince the sceptical airport Commandant there has been foul play.
Genres: Drama Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-05-13
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Doctor Who: Colony in Space
Overview: When the Master steals the Time Lords' secret file on the Doomsday Weapon, they grant the Doctor a temporary reprieve from his exile on Earth to deal with the crisis. He and Jo arrive on the planet Uxarieus and become enmeshed in a struggle between an agrarian colony and a powerful mining corporation.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-05-15
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Running Scared
Overview: When an undergraduate commits suicide, his best friend is sent down from university because he did nothing to prevent the death, which he felt was a choice his friend had a right to make.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-05-01
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Darling Lili
Overview: World War I. Lili Smith is a beloved British music hall singer, often providing inspiration for the British and French troops and general populace singing rallying patriotic songs. She is also half German and is an undercover German spy, using her feminine wiles to gather information from the high ranking and generally older military officers and diplomats she seduces.
Genres: Music War Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-06-18
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Harry Hill's TV Burp Gold 2
Overview: Harry Hill returns to DVD for a second volume of TV Burp Gold, with a brand new selection of the funniest bits from the Multi BAFTA winning, hit series, TV Burp. Some of TV's biggest shows such as Coronation Street, East Enders, Dancing On Ice and The X Factor get the full Harry treatment. It's crammed with hilarious jokes, funny clips and silly sketches plus a host of extras including "unseen" TV Burp and side-splitting out-takes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-11-09
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