Fulton Mackay
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Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Fulton Mackay OBE (12 August 1922 - 6 June 1987) was a Scottish actor and playwright, best known for his role as prison officer Mr. Mackay in the 1970s sitcom Porridge. Description above from the Wikipedia article Fulton Mackay, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Paisley, Scotland, UK
Birthday: August 12, 1922
Deathday: June 06, 1987
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Gender: Male
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Local Hero
Overview: An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things don't go as expected.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-02-17
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Britannia Hospital
Overview: Britannia Hospital, an esteemed English institution, is marking its gala anniversary with a visit by the Queen Mother herself. But when investigative reporter Mick Travis arrives to cover the celebration, he finds the hospital under siege by striking workers, ruthless unions, violent demonstrators, racist aristocrats, an African cannibal dictator, and sinister human experiments.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-05-27
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Gumshoe
Overview: A would be private eye gets mixed up in a smuggling case.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-01
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Nothing But the Night
Overview: When various trustees of the Van Traylen Orphanage begin dying in close order, it's at first written off as a coincidence. But, when a school bus accident very nearly takes out three more of them along with a group of orphans, Col. Bingham and his pathologist friend, Mark, begin looking into the deaths. They come to think the answer lies with one of the girls on the bus, who has vivid memories of things she could not possibly have seen.
Genres: Crime Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-02-16
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Defence of the Realm
Overview: A reporter named Mullen 'stumbles' onto a story linking a prominent Member of Parliament to a KGB agent and a near-nuclear disaster involving a teenage runaway and a U.S. Air Force base. Has there been a Government cover-up? Mullen teams up with Vernon Bayliss, an old hack, and Nina Beckam, the MP's assistant, to find out the truth.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-05-09
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A Sense of Freedom
Overview: The true story of Jimmy Boyle, who was reputed to be Scotland's most violent man.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-10-18
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I'm A Stranger
Overview: When his grandfather dies, George Westcott (Patrick Doonan) returns home from India to collect his inheritance -- only to find that the will has mysteriously gone missing. As his greedy relatives try to seize the estate, George gets the help of a movie star (Greta Gynt), a window cleaner (James Hayter and a police inspector (Herbert Ross) to track down the missing will. It seems that justice will prevail -- but is George Wescott really George Wescott?
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-07-01
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Porridge
Overview: Times are hard for habitual guest of Her Majesty Norman Stanley Fletcher. The new prison officer, Beale, makes MacKay look soft and what's more, an escape plan is hatching from the cell of prison godfather Grouty and Fletcher wants no part of it.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-08-12
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Hitler: The Comedy Years
Overview: A documentary about the portrayal of Adolf Hitler in popular culture.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-05-10
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The South Bank Show: 'Local Hero'
Overview: A documentary about the making of Bill Forsyth's 1983 film "Local Hero."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-02-27
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If You Go Down in the Woods Today
Overview: A Boy Scout troupe led by their scoutmaster (Sykes) is on a field trip to a seemingly-peaceful English woodland. However, the woods are actually teeming with strange characters, some of whom turn out to be disguised police officers and others criminals. The police are searching for £2,000,000 in stolen banknotes and hope that the criminals will lead them to them. The criminals, on the other hand, are aware that the police are looking for them and doing their best to avoid betraying the location of their stash.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-04-29
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Sleepwalker
Overview: Saxon Logan's extraordinary 49 minute featurette pitches four people into a class war situation with a vicious sting in the tale.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-07-05
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Fraggle Rock - Live by the Rule of the Rock
Overview: Catch a Tail by the Tiger: Gobo has not received his usual postcard from his Uncle Traveling Matt. He eventually comes to realize that he must venture out into outer space to look for him – a trip that would terrify and Fraggle. Believe It or Not: Red and Wembley discover a creature who is whatever you believe hi is. The trouble starts when Ma Gorg believes him into being a monster in the basement of the castle. All Work and All Play: Cotterpin Doozer decides she’d rather be a Fraggle, like Red, than spend the rest of her life building with the Doozers. Approx. Run Time: 170 minutes (including bonus features).
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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Night Train to Murder
Overview: When Eric's niece Kathy becomes one of the heirs to a considerable fortune, her life (and those of the other heirs) is placed in jeopardy by the actions of a mysterious inter-loper.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Brand
Overview: Brand's a bleak and desolate play that challenges the notion of a stern and stoic faith in the will of God. The title character is a pastor who returns to his ancestral home to find the villagers on the verge of starvation. He believes ministering to these poor people to be his calling. Over the course of the play, however, he faces many difficult choices. The decisions he makes, based on his stark and idealistic view of morality, have dire consequences for all the people he touches and, ultimately, for his own embattled soul.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-08-11
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Enchanted Isles
Overview: A trip through the Highlands and Islands of Scotland following in the footsteps of Bonnie Prince Charlie.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-01-01
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The Brave Don't Cry
Overview: The Brave Don't Cry aspires to the "feel" of a documentary, right down to the deliberate absence of background music. A mine in Scotland falls victim to a cave-in, trapping some one hundred workers. Rescue parties are formed as the tremulous families of the miners wait in agony. As in the actual incident upon which this film is based, the rescue is nip and tuck and times, but eventually successful. The faces of real-life Scottish mining folk are melded with the professional actors in The Brave Don't Cry, adding poignancy to this otherwise cut-and-dried film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-08-01
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A Prize of Arms
Overview: A criminal gang sets out to pull off the heist of a large army payroll.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-12-11
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Comedy Classics: Porridge
Overview: An homage to the prison comedy series Porridge, created by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais. This documentary examines how Ronnie Barker’s Fletch influenced Slade Prison’s characters. There is also a look at 1978’s Going Straight, Porridge: The Movie, the US remake On the Rocks, and the 2017 reboot starring Kevin Bishop and Ricky Grover.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-12-16
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Porridge: The Desperate Hours
Overview: Fletcher and Godber are in trouble for brewing liquor in the lead-up to Christmas, but are caught up in a hostage situation in the Governor's office.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-24
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Porridge: No Way Out
Overview: Fletcher discovers that his fellow inmates are planning to escape.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-12-24
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Dreamchild
Overview: Eighty-year-old Alice Hargreaves is about to visit Columbia University to attend a reception in honor of author Lewis Carroll. As a child, Alice had a close friendship with the writer, and their relationship was the creative catalyst for Carroll's most beloved work. However, as Alice reflects on her experiences with the author, she realizes the complexity of their bond has had lasting, deeply felt ramifications.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-10-04
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Going Gently
Overview: Play about two elderly cancer patients suffering in hospital.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-06-05
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Water
Overview: The British governor of a tiny island nation in the Caribbean Commonwealth finds his idyllic existence thrown into chaos when an American drilling company finds a huge source of natural mineral water there.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-11
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Doctor Who and the Silurians
Overview: Investigating mysterious power failures and a death at an underground research centre, The Doctor discovers a colony of Silurians - prehistoric, intelligent reptiles who went into hibernation before man evolved. But now they have woken up, and they are prepared to wipe out mankind with a killer plague to get their planet back.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-03-14
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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 Life and Times of David Lloyd George
Overview: The Life and Times of David Lloyd George charts the life of the controversial Liberal politician with Philip Madoc in the titular role. The title theme, Chi Mai, was by Ennio Morricone
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-03-04
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A Wreath of Roses
Overview: Period drama based on a novel. While waiting for a train, a lonely woman is witness to a suicide on the tracks. A sympathetic man strikes up a friendship with her. At first reluctant, she is drawn in by his self-assured good looks, despite an uneasy feeling that he is not what he seems. She eventually discovers that he is hiding a deadly secret.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-06
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Ill Fares the Land
Overview: The story of the last two years the inhabitants of the islands of St Kilda (far off the west coast of Scotland) spent there, before being evacuated at their own request. This film, originally shown at the London Film Festival, marked the screen debut of writer and director Bill Bryden, who made his theatre reputation directing at the Glasgow Citizens' Theatre and the National Theatre. In persuasive style.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-11-01
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Orkney
Overview: Three stories reflecting life in the Orkney Islands, two set in the past, and one in the present.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-05-13
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Laxdale Hall
Overview: A starchy parliamentary delegation is sent to a remote Scottish Highlands community, where the residents are protesting the poor condition of their road by withholding their taxes, and spend a few days among the locals.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-04-01
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To Catch a King
Overview: Robert Wagner plays an American who owns a Lisbon nightclub and Teri Garr is a slightly dippy chanteuse who has stumbled across a Nazi plot to kidnap the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, living at the time (1942) in Portugal.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-20
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Three's One
Overview: Are Maggie and Tony using each other as a means of communicating with Dr Leafer? Or are they using Dr Leafer as a means of communicating with each other?
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-06-04
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Clay, Smeddum and Greenden
Overview: TV dramatisation of the trilogy by Lewis Grassic Gibbon.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-02-24
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Willie Rough
Overview: In the dark days of 1914 Willie Rough set out to find work in Greenock. He becomes a shipbuilding shop steward and soon finds himself involved in a bitter political and industrial conflict.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-03-09
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Shapes In The Water
Overview: Highland boat-building, showing intermediate processes of clinker- and carvel built boats, as well as those involved in ferroconcrete and steel construction of boats. Footage of ferries, fishing boats, power boats, and sailing boats.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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The Clearances
Overview: A look at the causes, execution and legacy of the Highland Clearances in Scotland.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-07-28
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