Anthony Newley
Also Known As: Antony Newley, Anthony George Newley
Biography: Anthony Newley was born in Hackney, London, England, to Frances Grace Newley and George Kirby, a shipping clerk. He was attracted to acting, after seeing an ad for a child actor in a Fleet Street window. He attended the Italia Conti Stage School from the age of 14 and, two years later, played the Artful Dodger in David Lean's film, Oliver Twist (1948). Newley was called up to the Army for his National Service and, by the late 1950s, had a hit song Idol on Parade (1959), while in the movie of the same name. He married his first wife, Tiller Girl Ann Lynn in 1956 but it was a rocky marriage and they divorced in 1963. He was in the pop charts seven times in 1960, twice at Number One with "Why?" and "Do You Mind?" written by Lionel Bart. In 1961, he collaborated with Leslie Bricusse on the hit stage show, Stop the World: I Want to Get Off (1966). After long runs in London and on Broadway, it was made into a film, starring Millicent Martin, with the hit song "What Kind of Fool Am I?".
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Birthday: September 24, 1931
Deathday: April 14, 1999
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Gender: Male
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Oliver Twist
Overview: When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and his criminal mentor, Fagin. When kindly Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver in, Fagin's evil henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy.
Genres: Drama Adventure Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-06-28
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X the Unknown
Overview: Army radiation experiments awaken a subterranean monster from a fissure that feeds on energy and proceeds to terrorise a remote Scottish village. An American research scientist at a nearby nuclear plant joins with a British investigator to discover why the victims were radioactively burned and why, shortly thereafter, a series of radiation-related incidents are occurring in an ever-growing straight line away from the fissure.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-09-21
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The Garbage Pail Kids Movie
Overview: Seven disgusting kids but nevertheless of interesting personality are being made of the green mud coming out of garbage can. Once alive their master gives them rules to obey although they think that life is funnier without following stupid regulations like no television or no candy. Naturally this will cause some conflicts.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-08-22
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Doctor Dolittle
Overview: A veterinarian who can communicate with animals travels abroad to search for a giant sea snail.
Genres: Music Family Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-12-05
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The Cockleshell Heroes
Overview: During WW2, German ships are "safely" docked upriver at Bordeaux, but the British send a team of kayakers to attack them.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-11-16
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David Bowie & The Story of Ziggy Stardust
Overview: BBC documentary telling the story of how David Bowie arrived at one of the most iconic creations in pop history - Ziggy Stardust - with contributions from colleagues and famous fans.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-06-22
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The Beatles Forever
Overview: A musical salute to The Beatles.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-11-24
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The Small World of Sammy Lee
Overview: The compère of a seedy strip club struggles to keep one step ahead of the bookies to whom he owes money.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-04-20
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Sweet November
Overview: A woman refuses to let her romances last longer than one month.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-02-08
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How to Murder a Rich Uncle
Overview: A broke British nobleman targets his Canadian uncle, but other relatives get in the way.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-06-01
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Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?
Overview: Heironymus Merkin is an internationally successful singer approaching middle age who retells his life story in a series of production numbers on a seashore in front of his two toddlers and aged mother. Merkin's promiscuous relationships with women are explored, particularly Polyester Poontang and the adolescent Mercy Humppe. Merkin is constantly surrounded by a Satan-like procurer, Goodtime Eddie Filth, and an angelic 'Presence' who interrupts Merkin's biography with cryptic Borscht Belt-level jokes to denote births and deaths in Merkin's life. Newley periodically steps out of character to complain about his 'Merkin' role with an unseen director, two screenwriters, the film's producers and a trio of blasé movie critics who are turned off by the story's eroticism and lack of plot.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-03-19
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The Man Inside
Overview: A detective tracking a stolen gem begins to suspect there's more to the case than just theft.
Genres: Adventure Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-09-07
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It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time
Overview: Sweeney is a playwright on a career decline. He spends much of his time wheedling money and beer out of his artistic friend Moriarty. One of his few highlights is weekly sex with his ex-wife Georgia. She is remarried to a rich but vile construction developer, but Sweeney and Gorgina are still in love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-09-11
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Jazz Boat
Overview: A bumbling gang of thieves crash a jazz party.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-06-01
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The Bandit Of Zhobe
Overview: British soldiers in India must contend with an outlaw bandit.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-04-01
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Killers of Kilimanjaro
Overview: An American engineer reaches Mombasa to finish the works of an African railroad and to find his predecessor, who has mysteriously disappeared. While the work continues, will have to face several obstacles, especially violent local tribes, Arabs slave traders and wild animals.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-10-01
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Idol on Parade
Overview: A rock'n'roll idol is drafted into the wrong regiment.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-03-24
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Tank Force!
Overview: During World War II, members of a British tank unit in northern Africa are captured and held prisoners by Germans.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-04-22
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The Old Curiosity Shop
Overview: A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of dusty treasures. Evicted and with no way to pay his debts, he and his granddaughter flee.
Genres: Comedy Drama History Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-11-07
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The Adventures of Dusty Bates
Overview: Dusty Bates observes some smuggled jewels hidden in a crate aboard a ship; he is pursued by low-lifes when the crate is put ashore.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-09-01
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Those People Next Door
Overview: The Twiggs are a typical working-class family: Sam (Jack Warner) and Mary (Marjorie Rhodes) are trying to bring their family up in the shadow of the Blitz whilst taking everything in good humour. Their neighbours Joe (Charles Victor) and Emma (Gladys Henson) are constantly in the Twiggs house, borrowing a cup of sugar or using their Anderson shelter and between them the two working class families put the world to rights. But when their daughter falls for an upper class RAF pilot the Twiggs are asked by his mother, Lady Diana Stephens to tell their daughter to call the romance off, as the social gap between the families is too large. Incensed by Lady Diana s offer of money, Sam Twigg throws her out of the house. But events take a sudden turn as the war enters the Twiggs own living room. Will the two families manage to overcome their disdain for each other and let true love find its way?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-02-01
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Polly: Comin' Home!
Overview: Broadway style songs are used to tell this interesting story of an ingenious orphan who gets involved in matchmaking and striving for inter-racial understanding in 1956 Alabama.
Genres: Family Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-11-18
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Happy Birthday, Las Vegas
Overview: Hosted by Don Meredith & Cindy Williams with Eddy Arnold, David Brenner, Foster Brooks, Charo, Norm Crosby, Rodney Dangerfield, John Davidson, Sammy Davis Jr., Lola Falana, Redd Fox, Robert Goulet, Jack Jones, the Lennon Sisters, Liberace, Don Rickles, Joan Rivers, Doc Severinson, Rip Taylor, Dionne Warwick, Andy Williams and many more.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-10-23
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Port Afrique
Overview: An army veteran with a shattered leg returns to his home in Port Afrique after war only to find his wife has been murdered. He's determined to find the killer, even if it means uncovering family secrets he never knew about.
Genres: Romance Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-06-18
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The Heart of a Man
Overview: Sailor Frankie Martin is offered a thousand pounds by a millionaire in disguise if he can earn a hundred pounds in a week by honest means. Frankie tries his hand as a boxer, a bouncer and a commissionaire, and finally finds success as a singer. He also falls for the charms of night club chanteuse Julie, and this leads to further success when he wins a recording contract.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-08-06
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A Boy, a Girl and a Bike
Overview: The lives of the members of a West Yorkshire cycling club are complicated by romantic entanglements and a series of bike thefts.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-05-23
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Fire Down Below
Overview: Tony and Felix own a tramp boat, and sail around the Caribbean doing odd jobs and drinking a lot. They agree to ferry the beautiful but passportless Irena to another island. They both fall for her, leading to betrayal and a break-up of their partnership. Tony takes a job on a cargo ship. After a collision he finds himself trapped below deck with time running out (the ship is aflame), and only Felix, whom he hates and has sworn to kill, left to save him.
Genres: Drama Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-05-30
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Vice Versa
Overview: Businessman Paul Bultitude is sending his son Dick to a boarding school. While holding a magic stone from India, he wishes that he could be young again. His wish is immediately fulfilled and the two change bodies with each other. Mr Bultitude becomes a school boy who smokes cigars and has a very conservative view on child upbringing, while his son Dick becomes a gentleman who spends his time drinking lemonade and arranging children's parties.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-01-28
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This Is Joan Collins
Overview: A feature-length documentary on the life of one of the last surviving actresses from the golden age of Hollywood – Joan Collins. This epic film is told from the ringside as Joan narrates her rollercoaster life story with her inimitable wit and verve. A worldwide television phenomenon with her decade-defining role in Dynasty, Collins shares her extraordinary archive and never before seen home movie footage, giving an intimate glimpse into one of the world’s most iconic figures. Against a backdrop of Collins’s own narration, her story showcases the extraordinary life of a woman who has lived through the glitz, the glamour and the enduring moments of Hollywood history, and survived it all with panache.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-01-01
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Coins in the Fountain
Overview: In this remake of the Oscar-winning film, "Three Coins in the Fountain," three vacationing American women find fun and romance during their visit to Rome.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-28
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Blade in Hong Kong
Overview: Joe Blade is an unclaimed TV pilot film. An American, Blade works in Hong Kong, the home of his adoptive father Chang Chin-tzu. When Chang Chin-tzu is killed and a wealthy man is kidnapped, Blade springs into action.
Genres: Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-03-15
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In The Nick
Overview: A gang of smalltime criminals is sent to an experimental prison where inmates are to be reformed, not punished.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-06-17
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The Blue Peter
Overview: A Merchant Navy hero of the Korean War returns to England after three years of captivity in Communist hands, his mind confused by brain-washing and indoctrination at the hands of his captors, and accepts a post as an instructor at the Outward Bound Sea School.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-11-01
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The Lady is a Square
Overview: Neagle stars as Frances Baring, a socialite widow attempting to keep her late husband's symphony orchestra going. Reluctantly she enlists the help of a young pop singer (Frankie Vaughan) who has fallen for Baring's daughter Joanna, played by a young Janette Scott.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-02-03
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High Flight
Overview: The Commanding Officer of an RAF Training School must deal with a difficult cadet, but the cadet reminds the C.O. of himself when young.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-09-17
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Top of the Form
Overview: A con man hides out in a boys' school, posing as a professor. When the undisciplined and lazy boys have to pass a few tests, cheating becomes the only option.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-02-01
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Let's Get Married
Overview: A medical student who is thrown out of his university, ends up working in a laundry and rebuilds his confidence with a relationship with a fashion model.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-03-22
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Don't Ever Leave Me
Overview: Elderly crook Harry Denton, when challenged to prove he is "not past it," decides to kidnap Sheila Farlane, the 16 year old daughter of a famous actor. When Harry loses his nerve, Sheila won't let him give up.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-19
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The Battle of the River Plate
Overview: In the early years of the World War II, the Royal Navy is fighting a desperate battle to keep the Atlantic convoy routes open to supply the British Isles, facing the great danger posed by the many German warships, such as the Admiral Graf Spee, which are scouring the ocean for cargo ships to sink.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-10-30
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Up to His Neck
Overview: A maritime farce set in the South Seas. A strong supporting cast includes Brian Rix, Anthony Newley & Harry Fowler.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-01-01
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Stagecoach
Overview: Story follows a stagecoach ride through Old West Apache territory. On board are a cavalry man's pregnant wife, a prostitute with a broken heart, a Marshal taking in his prisoner Johnny Ringo, a crooked gambler, and the infamous Doc Holliday
Genres: TV Movie Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-05-18
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The Good Companions
Overview: The story revolves around the Dinky Doos, a provincial musical troupe living from hand to mouth.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-04-22
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Lucy in London
Overview: Lucy goes to hip London to experience all the current fads.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-10-24
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The Last Man to Hang
Overview: A man is tried for the murder of his neurotic wife by means of a sedative overdose.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-08-01
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The Guinea Pig
Overview: A working-class boy wins a scholarship to a public school, as part of a post-World War Two experiment in bringing boys of different social classes together.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-26
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Vote for Huggett
Overview: A firm of solicitors do battle with the head of the local council over a parcel of river front land, owned by the Huggett family, in order to build a lido/community center.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-01
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Malibu
Overview: A young couple from Milwaukee moves into the fabled, high-society Malibu beach community and becomes involved with the lives of the various people living in the community.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-23
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Outrage!
Overview: After a technicality results in the release of a man being tried for the rape and murder of a young woman, her father murders the man. Admitting his guilt and refusing to use temporary insanity, the father places his attorney in a virtual no-win situation. In an extreme effort, the attorney decides to call the judge who released the murderer originally and to challenge the entire legal system that would permit such a travesty.
Genres: TV Movie Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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The Weak and the Wicked
Overview: Jean Raymond an upper class woman with a gambling addiction, is given a twelve-month prison sentence resulting from her inability to pay her debts. At first she is overwhelmingly depressed by life in the women's prison; gradually, however, her misery is relieved by the many close friends she makes there. This sympathetic drama traces the contrasting lives and often faltering progress of the inmates of a women's prison.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-02-02
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Above Us the Waves
Overview: In World War II, the greatest threat to the British navy is the German battleship Tirpitz. While anchored in a Norwegian fjord, it is impossible to attack by conventional means, so a plan is hatched for a special commando unit to attack it, using midget submarines to plant underwater explosives.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-03-29
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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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Linda in Wonderland
Overview: “Linda In Wonderland” is Linda Lavin’s variety television special that aired on Thanksgiving Day, 1980. Special guests include; Lynn Redgrave, Anthony Newley and Ron Leibman. Her characters of “Alice Hyatt” and “Sam Butler” from her television show “Alice” also make appearances as Ms. Lavin plays dual roles for both. Ms. Lavin and her guests perform Broadway and other musical numbers in various settings and medleys, mixed in with solo performances and Linda giving us a little background about herself growing up, along with some humor and pizzazz.
Genres: Music Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-11-27
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Highly Dangerous
Overview: A US newsman and a British entomologist spy on germ-warfare research in a mythical country.
Genres: Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-06
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Boris and Natasha
Overview: Sent by Fearless Leader to America to find an important microchip, dastardly Pottsylvanian spies Boris Badenov and Natasha Fatale begin questioning who they're working for and why.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-04-17
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