James Laurenson
Also Known As: James Lawrenson, James Laurensen
Biography: James Laurenson (1940-2024) was a New Zealand born actor predominantly based in the UK.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Marton, New Zealand
Birthday: February 17, 1940
Deathday: April 18, 2024
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Pink Floyd: The Wall
Overview: A troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation from everyone.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-07-14
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The Monster Club
Overview: A vampire attacks a horror author on the street and then invites him to a nearby club as a gesture of gratitude, which turns out to be a meeting place for assorted creatures of the night. The vampire then regales him with three stories, each interspersed with musical performances at the club.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-04-11
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The Cold Light of Day
Overview: A troubled detective befriends a single woman and her daughter with the intention of using them as bait for a serial killer.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-08-20
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The Riot Club
Overview: Two first-year students at Oxford University join a secret society and learn that their reputations can be made or destroyed over the course of one evening.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-09-19
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Sharpe's Siege
Overview: Sharpe, with his new commanding officer, is sent to capture a castle when news comes of locals who will rise against Bonaparte. However, he is somewhat distracted by thoughts of his wife whom he was forced to leave while stricken with fever.
Genres: War Action Adventure TV Movie History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-05-08
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Sharpe's Mission
Overview: Sharpe is teamed with a Colonel he helped promote and they are tasked to destroy a powder magazine, but an alliance with the French may threaten their success. Meanwhile, Jane is wearying of the army life and Harper and Ramona are at odds.
Genres: War Action Adventure History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-05-15
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Sharpe's Regiment
Overview: Told his battalion is to be split up due to lack of recruits at home, Sharpe and Harper return to England to investigate. What should have been a simple query turns politically explosive as they come nearer to exposing profiteering on the home front that could jeopardize the Wellington's war.
Genres: War Action Adventure History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-05-01
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Heartbreakers
Overview: Blue, a yet-to-be discovered painter, is left by his longtime girlfriend because she considers him too immature for a lasting relationship. Eli, Blue's best friend, works for his father's garment business and is still searching for a woman who's interesting enough to spend more than one night with. Blue and Eli's friendship is put to the test when they both fall for Liliane, Blue's exotic gallerist.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-09-28
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Assault
Overview: After a schoolgirl is raped while taking a short cut through the local woods, and another murdered a few days later, the police are baffled. With the help of a reporter, and against the wishes of a local psychologist, a young schoolteacher uses herself as bait to lure the perpetrator out.
Genres: Crime Drama Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-02-11
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Sharpe's Revenge
Overview: Sharpe is framed as the thief who stole Napolean's gold, and he must clear his name to avoid execution. Meanwhile his wife Jane - urged on by a friend - makes some questionable choices.
Genres: War Action Adventure History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-05-07
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The Man Who Fell to Earth
Overview: An alien lands on Earth, and decides that he needs to a job in order to raise money to build a spaceship so he can return to his home planet.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-08-22
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The Care of Time
Overview: A thriller directed by John Davies.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-08-26
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Women in Love
Overview: Growing up in the sheltered confines of a 1920s English coal-mining community, free-spirited sisters Gudrun and Ursula explore erotic love with a wealthy playboy and a philosophical educator, with cataclysmic results for all four.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-09-13
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AfterLife
Overview: High-flying journalist Kenny Brogan (Kevin McKidd) is working on the story that could make his career when he is told his mother is terminally ill. With his father no longer in the picture, this means that the responsibility for looking after his Down's Syndrome sister Roberta (Paula Sage) falls to him. Conflicted by career aspirations and the difficulties in caring for his sister, Kenny at first begins to resent Roberta, until he realizes just how much she means to him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-08-19
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The Comedy of Errors - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
Overview: Basing his plot on a farce by Plautus, Shakespeare caps the mayhem of his Roman original to build up a hectic tale of violent cross-purposes, furious slapstick and social nightmare.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-06-25
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This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper
Overview: This is a dramatisation of the real-life investigation into the notorious Yorkshire Ripper murders of the late 1970s, showing the effect that it had on the health and career of Assistant Chief Constable George Oldfield who led the enquiry.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-26
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Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical
Overview: An extraordinary young girl discovers her superpower and summons the remarkable courage, against all odds, to help others change their stories, whilst also taking charge of her own destiny. Standing up for what's right, she's met with miraculous results.
Genres: Family Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-11-25
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Private Peaceful
Overview: Set in the fields of Devon and the WW1 battlefields of Flanders, two brothers fall for the same girl while contending with the pressures of their feudal family life, the war, and the price of courage and cowardice.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-12
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Old Man March Is Dead
Overview: In rural New Zealand an alcoholic ex-soldier is desperate to obtain more liquor. His family try to keep liquor away from him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-05-15
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Edward II
Overview: The reign of Edward II, King of England, is troubled from the start when he brings his male lover, hated by the nobles, out of exile.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-08-06
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Sharpe: The Legend
Overview: Several years after the battle of Waterloo, a former soldier from Shoreditch sits in a London inn reminiscing about the brave and determined officer who took him to hell and back. The narrator is Rifleman Cooper, and the officer whose fame he recalls is the legendary Richard Sharpe.
Genres: War Action Adventure History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-13
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The Magic Christian
Overview: Sir Guy Grand, the richest man in the world, adopts a homeless man, Youngman. Together, they set out to prove that anyone--and anything--can be bought.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-12
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Paint Me a Murder
Overview: Luke Lorenz is a artist whose paintings don't sell. His imaginative wife Sandra reasons that sales of his works would increase tenfold if he were to die, so they fake his death.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-10-29
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The Cry
Overview: Psychological thriller about a woman child-protection officer tramautized by her stillbirth who befriends a woman in hospital and then becomes convinced that the daughter is being abused.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-04-08
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Rainbow Drive
Overview: A Hollywood multiple murder is investigated by a homicide cop, despite high-placed efforts to cover up the crime.
Genres: Thriller Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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National Theatre Live: The Cherry Orchard
Overview: Madame Ranevskaya is a spoiled, aging aristocratic lady who returns from a trip to Paris to face the loss of her magnificent Cherry Orchard estate after a default on the mortgage. In denial, she continues living in the past, deluding herself and her family, while the beautiful cherry trees are being axed down by the re-possessor Lopakhin, her former serf, who has his own agenda.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-06-30
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One Day
Overview: A romantic comedy centered on Dexter and Emma, who first meet during their graduation in 1988 and proceed to keep in touch regularly. The film follows what they do on July 15 annually, usually doing something together.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-03-02
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National Theatre Live: Hamlet
Overview: A 2010 broadcast of Hamlet returns to cinemas as part of the NT's 50th anniversary celebrations. Following his celebrated performances at the National Theatre in Burnt by the Sun, The Revenger's Tragedy, Philistines and The Man of Mode, Rory Kinnear plays Hamlet in a dynamic new production of Shakespeare’s complex and profound play about the human condition, directed by Nicholas Hytner. He is joined by Clare Higgins (Gertrude), Patrick Malahide (Claudius), David Calder (Polonius), James Laurenson (Ghost/Player King) and Ruth Negga (Ophelia).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-12-09
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The Witches of Pendle
Overview: A BBC dramatization of the Pendle witch trials of Lancashire, England that occurred in 1616.
Genres: Drama Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-06-19
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A House in the Hills
Overview: An aspiring actress gets a housesitting job and finds herself in a cat-and-mouse game with a deadly ex-con.
Genres: Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-20
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The Man in the Sidecar
Overview: Examines the relationship between Edith, a famous and successful novelist, and her writer husband, and how her own domestic situation is paralleled in her latest book about a woman enjoying the self-destruction of her husband.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-05-27
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The Turn of the Screw
Overview: An English governess is hired to take care of two adorable orphans, who turn out to be not exactly what they seem to be.
Genres: Drama Thriller Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-04-15
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The Prison
Overview: A successful Paris magazine proprietor embarks on a destructive voyage of self-discovery after his wife shoots dead her own sister, with whom he has had an affair for several years.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-05-24
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Codename: Kyril
Overview: At the height of the cold war, a known Russian spy ("Kyril") is sent to the UK under falsely reported pretenses in order to hopefully indirectly spark an unknown mole in the KGB to reveal himself; the endeavor eventually has repercussions which none of the initial players could have predicted.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-03-29
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The Cat's Meow
Overview: Semi-true story of the Hollywood murder that occurred at a star-studded gathering aboard William Randolph Hearst's yacht in 1924.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller Crime History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-08
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Project: Tinman
Overview: A mechanical man with a moral code and soul looking for adventure and his creator after escaping the military. He attempts to discover the reasons why he was created. An action-adventure pilot for ABC, a series that never happened.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Dead Bolt Dead
Overview: Dead Bolt Dead takes a twisted look at the dark underworld of organised crime, with its assassins, its bosses, its drivers and its sharply suited thugs. Set in two locations in and outside London, it charts the night after a bold attempt to take out a rival gang fails.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Thieves in the Night
Overview: "But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night." Experiences in a kibbutz, it sets up a stage in describing the historical roots of the conflict between Arabs and Jewish settlers in the British ruled Palestine.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-10-11
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Children of the Sun
Overview: A group of travellers find themselves stranded at a strange airport.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-11-18
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The Vanishing Man
Overview: While Nick Cameron is returning to England from the continent with mysterious cargo in the cabin section of his small aircraft, he is thrown off-course by a severe electrical storm and loses radio contact. To his surprise and horror, he is arrested upon landing and accused of being a traitor in connection with the cargo he has been carrying - which, unknown to him, contained plutonium. Although he pleads innocent, Nick is not believed and is sentenced to a long term in prison. While in prison, he is subjected to special experimentation at a mysterious laboratory - with one unnerving, and unexpected, side-effect of the experiments being intermittent invisibility. —David McAnally
Genres: Comedy Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-04-02
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The Tragedy of King Richard II
Overview: The Tragedy of King Richard II, by William Shakespeare. The actions and repercussions of a proud King, whose vanity and selfishness lead to his downfall.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-07-30
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Countdown to War
Overview: Based on a play, the story details the dramatic negotiations between UK, France, Poland, Nazi-Germany and USSR from the day Czechoslovakia fell, until Britain's declaration of war on Germany caused by Hitler's invasion of Poland.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-04-07
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Jude
Overview: Twelve-year-old Jude has never met Dick, his father. One Sunday afternoon Dick impulsively engineers a meeting, which has distressing consequences.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-02
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Three Blind Mice
Overview: Thomas is a talented computer programmer living in a vibrant, urban metropolis. Lonely and unsure about life, he finds solitude in the world of internet chat rooms, webcam sites and virtual communication. One evening, Thomas witnesses the brutal murder of a webcam friend and in a vain attempt to protect her he becomes the prime suspect in the homicide. Determined to prove his innocence, Thomas teams up with Claire, a specialist in internet crimes to uncover the truth. To expose the murderer, Claire and Thomas decide to set up their own webcam site using Claire as the cyber bait. Somewhere down the line the truth becomes blurred and Thomas no longer knows where to turn or who to trust. As his life starts to spiral out of control, he has to face the terrifying reality that he could be the next victim.........the virtual nightmare has only just begun.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-10-08
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