Max Adrian
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: November 01, 1902
Deathday: January 19, 1973
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Boy Friend
Overview: The assistant stage manager of a small-time theatrical company is forced to understudy for the leading lady at a matinée performance at which an illustrious Hollywood director is in the audience scouting for actors to be in his latest "all-talking, all-dancing, all-singing" extravaganza.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-16
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The Devils
Overview: In 17th-century France, Father Urbain Grandier seeks to protect the city of Loudun from the corrupt establishment of Cardinal Richelieu. Hysteria occurs within the city when he is accused of witchcraft by the sexually repressed Sister Jeanne.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-07-16
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Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
Overview: Five strangers board a train and are joined by a mysterious fortune teller who offers to read their Tarot cards. Five separate stories unfold: An architect returns to his ancestoral home to find a werewolf out for revenge; a doctor discovers his new wife is a vampire; a huge plant takes over a house; a musician gets involved with voodoo; an art critic is pursued by a disembodied hand.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-02-23
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Pool of London
Overview: Jewel thieves, murder, and a manhunt swirl around a sailor off a cargo ship in post-war London.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-02-20
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The Deadly Affair
Overview: Charles Dobbs is a British secret agent investigating the apparent suicide of Foreign Office official Samuel Fennan. Dobbs suspects that Fennan's wife, Elsa, a survivor of a Nazi Germany extermination camp, might have some clues, but other officials want Dobbs to drop the case. So Dobbs hires a retiring inspector, Mendel, to quietly make inquiries. Dobbs isn't at all sure as there are a number of anomalies that simply can't be explained away. Dobbs is also having trouble at home with his errant wife, whom he very much loves, having frequent affairs. He's also pleased to see an old friend, Dieter Frey, who he recruited after the war. With the assistance of a colleague and a retired policeman, Dobbs tries to piece together just who is the spy and who in fact assassinated Fennan.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-01-26
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The Music Lovers
Overview: Composer, conductor and teacher Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky struggles against his homosexual tendencies by marrying, but unfortunately, he chooses wacky nymphomaniac Nina, whom he is unable to satisfy.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-02-12
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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 Terrornauts
Overview: A group of scientists are kidnapped and taken to an outer space outpost in order to save Earth from destruction.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-02-01
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Song of Summer
Overview: The last five years of Frederick Delius's life through the eyes of a young composer and aide, Eric Fenby.
Genres: TV Movie Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-09-15
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Kipps
Overview: A young tradesman learns that money doesn't necessarily bring happiness. Drama.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-28
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Charley Junior's Schooldays
Overview: A soon-to-be born baby learns about the kinds of schools he will attending in the years following his birth.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-01-02
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Robinson Charley
Overview: No man is an island, but Charley represents his nation in this economical cartoon tale of Britain’s economics.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-07-16
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Twelfth Night
Overview: Twins Viola and Sebastian are separated by a shipwreck. Viola lands in Illyria, where she disguises herself as a man and enters the service of Duke Orsino. Orsino sends her to help woo the Lady Olivia, who doesn't want the Duke, but finds she likes the new messenger. When Sebastian reappears, with Viola now his exact double, merry hell breaks loose. Meanwhile, Olivia's uncle and his cohorts are trying to find some way to get back at Olivia's officious majordomo, Malvolio.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-12-15
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As You Like It
Overview: One of the earliest hits for the newly established RSC, Michael Elliott’s sparkling version of Shakespeare's comedy is still remembered with joy by a generation of theatre-goers. The design was dominated by a huge oak tree, but the production is most memorable for Vanessa Redgrave’s luminous Rosalind, supported by Max Adrian and Ian Bannen.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-03-21
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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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The Young Mr. Pitt
Overview: This biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of 24.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-21
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Macushla
Overview: Released in the US in 1940 while a drive was being staged in Ireland to stop the smuggling of munitions across the Ulster border. The story involves a family, the Muldoons, living in a village on the Ulster border. Pamela Wood, the daughter, is being romanced (and romancing back) border-guard Lian Gaffney. A damper is dumped on the romance when her brother, Max Adrian, is recognized as one of the rebels. He is caught by the guards, but manages to escape after saving the life of Gaffney.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-01
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The Happy Family
Overview: A mother and father who, in order to shock their extended family out of their idle spendthrift ways, pretend to have lost all their money.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-01
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Midsummer Nightmare
Overview: Puck is introduced to the twentieth century and is as amused by the contemporary obsession with television as he was by the lovers' antics.
Genres: Animation Fantasy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-08-10
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Henry V
Overview: In the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.
Genres: History Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-11-24
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Alma Mater
Overview: Jimmy Nicholson returns from working in the Middle East to visit his son at boarding school. He went to the same public school himself and is disturbed to find that things have changed and the traditions by which he has always lived and been guided now seem to be obsolete.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-01-07
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Uncle Vanya
Overview: Adaptation of Chekhov's play from the Chichester Festival.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-11-20
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The Pickwick Papers
Overview: The Pickwick Club sends Mr. Pickwick and a group of friends to travel across England and to report back on the interesting things they find...
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-11-14
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Penn of Pennsylvania
Overview: Penn of Pennsylvania is a 1941 British historical drama film directed by Lance Comfort and starring Deborah Kerr, Clifford Evans, Dennis Arundell, Henry Oscar, Herbet Lomas and Edward Rigby. The film depicts the life of the Quaker founder of Pennsylvania, William Penn. It portrays his struggle to be granted a colonial charter in London and attracting settlers to his new colony as well as his adoption a radical new approach with regard to the treatment of the Native Americans. It is also known by the alternative title Courageous Mr. Penn.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-24
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Doctor Who: The Myth Makers
Overview: When the TARDIS arrives on the plains of Asia Minor not far from the besieged city of Troy, the Doctor is hailed by Achilles as the mighty god Zeus and taken to the Greek camp. He meets Agamemnon and Odysseus. Forced to admit he is a mere mortal — albeit a traveller in space and time — he is given two days to devise a scheme to capture Troy. Steven and Vicki, meanwhile, have been taken prisoner by the Trojans. Vicki, believed to possess supernatural powers, is given two days to banish the Greeks to prove she is not a spy.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-11-06
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Talk About Jacqueline
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-11-30
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Eight Cylinder Love
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-01
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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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