Frank Williams
Also Known As: Frank John Williams
Biography: Frank Williams was an actor best known for playing the Reverend Timothy Farthing in the BBC television sitcom Dad's Army.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Edgeware, Middlesex, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: July 02, 1931
Age: 93 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: June 26, 2022
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Dad's Army
Overview: Dad's Army was a 1971 feature film based on the BBC television sitcom Dad's Army. Directed by Norman Cohen, it was filmed between series three and four and was based upon material from the early episodes of the television series. The film told the story of the Home Guard platoon's formation and their subsequent endeavours at a training exercise.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-03-12
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The Square Peg
Overview: Norman Pitkin and Mr Grimsdale are council workmen mending the road outside an Army base when they come into conflict with the military. Shortly afterwards, they get drafted and fall into the clutches of the Sergeant they have just bested. They are sent to France to repair roads in front of the Allied advance but get captured. Pitkin takes advantage of a useful similarity to impersonate General Schreiber and manages to return a hero
Genres: War Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-12-04
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Bachelor of Hearts
Overview: A German scholar has girl troubles while studying at Cambridge.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-12-12
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Trial and Error
Overview: After nearly 40 years of waiting for his big chance, Wilfred Morgenhall is given the case of defending Herbert Fowle who is accused of murdering his wife. Despite Fowle's insistence of guilt, Moregenhall will not let go of the opportunity to plead his client as innocent and be a star in the courtroom.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-09-25
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Inn for Trouble
Overview: Peggy Mount and David Kossoff star as Ada and Alf Larkin in this big screen version of the hugely popular 1950s TV comedy. Alf Larkin has finally made good his dream to own a pub. The trouble is, it's got no customers. But leave it to the Larkins to find unorthodox ways to bring in the punters.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-01-31
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One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing
Overview: Escaping from China with a microfilm of the formula for the mysterious "Lotus X", Lord Southmere, a Queen's Messenger, is chased by a group of Chinese spies.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Drama Family Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-07-09
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The Yellow Rolls-Royce
Overview: One Rolls-Royce belongs to three vastly different owners, starting with Lord Charles, who buys the car for his wife as an anniversary present. The next owner is Paolo Maltese, a mafioso who purchases the car during a trip to Italy and leaves it with his girlfriend while he returns to Chicago. Finally, the car is owned by American widow Gerda, who joins the Yugoslavian resistance against the invading Nazis.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-12-31
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Oh! Heavenly Dog
Overview: Browning is a PI with a bad cold, who's sent to investigate a case by a mysterious client. He stumbles across the body of a young woman and is stabbed to death, and when he wakes up in heaven, they tell him he's "marginal material," and they can only decide on his final destination through one last assignment: to go back and solve his own murder. As a dog. A cute fluffy little dog (Benji). Undaunted, Browning begins to investigate the case as best he can around his canine disabilities (dialing the phone presents a special challenge) to solve the murders, save the girl, and see justice done.
Genres: Comedy Thriller Crime Mystery Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-07-11
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What's Up Nurse
Overview: When Dr. Robert "Sweeney" Todd arrives to fill his post at a new hospital, he is shocked to see the lengths that the nurses go to in caring for their patients.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-06-30
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Atlantic Wall
Overview: 1944. Léon Duchemin owns a restaurant with his sister. His clients are Germans, Résistance et black marketeers. Léon unwillingly joins the Résistance when a British pilot is shot down and hides in his attic and, through a series of mishaps, he accidentally steals the plans for Hitler's V1 missiles.
Genres: Adventure Comedy War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-10-14
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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 V.I.P.s
Overview: Wealthy passengers fogged in at London's Heathrow Airport fight to survive a variety of personal trials.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-09-01
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Hide and Seek
Overview: A professor of astronomy helping on a missile development program. An old friend of his is a Russian chess champion. The Russian is working with shady businessman Marek and they plan to kidnap the professor and make it look as though he has defected to the Soviet Union.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-06-21
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The Bulldog Breed
Overview: Norman Puckle, a well-meaning but clumsy grocer's assistant, can't seem to do anything right. After being rejected by Marlene, the love of his life, he attempts suicide, but can't even do that. He is saved from jumping off a cliff at 'Lover's Leap' by a Royal Navy petty officer. He persuades Puckle to join the Royal Navy, where he'll meet 'lots of girls'. Life in the Navy proves not to be as rosy as it's been described, and Puckle fails at every task during basic training. But despite this, he's regarded by the Admiral in charge of a rocket project to be a 'typical average British sailor', and chosen to be the first man to fly into outer space in an experimental rocket.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-12-13
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The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan
Overview: The career of W. S. Gilbert, a barrister turned comic librettist, and Arthur Sullivan, a composer turned against his will to light music, who together wrote fifteen comic operas between 1871 and 1896, to great public acclaim.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-02-14
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Derby Day
Overview: Entertaining ensemble piece dealing with several characters who are on the way to the races on Derby day. It cleverly blends dramatic, romantic and comic elements, including the woman and lover who have murdered her husband, and the working class couple who are excited about their chance to go to the races, but end up listening to it on the radio in the car-park because they've got such a bad view.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-06-09
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The Extra Day
Overview: Director William Fairchild's 1956 British comedy takes a peek into the private lives of various performers employed as extras in a new film that's currently shooting.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-01-01
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The Glass Cage
Overview: A circus barker stages a sensational new act, the world's longest fast undertaken by “Sapolio”, on view in a glass cage. But this act also results in several murders, a kidnapping, and a poisoning!
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-04-15
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One Good Turn
Overview: Norman is the oldest orphan at Greenwood Children's Home and now acts as their caretaker. All the orphans are very happy and well cared for. The adventures start when a nasty property developer (boo hiss) who is also the chairman of the orphanage board wants to close the orphanage and build a factory on the site. The children are sent to Brighton for the day and Norman is very excited because he's "Never seen the Sea". When they get back they discover the plan to close the orphanage and have to decide what to do
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-01-04
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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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Atlantic Wall
Overview: 1944. Léon Duchemin owns a restaurant with his sister. His clients are Germans, Résistance et black marketeers. Léon unwillingly joins the Résistance when a British pilot is shot down and hides in his attic and, through a series of mishaps, he accidentally steals the plans for Hitler's V1 missiles.
Genres: Adventure Comedy War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-10-14
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Dad's Army
Overview: A cinema remake of the classic sitcom Dad's Army (1968). The Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard platoon deal with a visiting female journalist and a German spy as World War II draws to its conclusion.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-02-05
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Katherine of Alexandria
Overview: The life of Katherine of Alexandria. Constantine joins the Roman army to find his missing childhood friend. Once alerted to his friend's whereabouts, he prepares for an all out war between the East and the West. Contains the last film role of Peter O'Toole, who died before the film was released.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-02-01
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Jabberwocky
Overview: After the death of his father, young Dennis Cooper goes to town where he has to pass several adventures. The town and the whole kingdom is threatened by a terrible monster called 'Jabberwocky'. Will Dennis make his fortune? Is anyone brave enough to defeat the monster?
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-03-28
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Anna Karenina
Overview: Anna, the wife of government minister Alexei Karenin, visits Moscow to help straighten out a family quarrel. There, Count Alexei Vronsky falls in love with her. Television adaptation of a play based on Leo Tolstoy's novel by Marcelle Maurette.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-11-03
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The Human Factor
Overview: When a leak of information in the African section of British Intelligence is discovered, a security man is brought in to investigate.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-18
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The One That Got Away
Overview: Based on the true story of Oberleutnant Franz von Werra, the only German prisoner of war captured in Britain to escape back to Germany during the Second World War.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-11-22
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The Comedy of Errors
Overview: Aegeon of Syracuse has come to Ephesus to seek his son, who went in search of his missing twin and mother months ago. Too bad that Ephesus has just declared war on Syracuse, and will instantly put to death any Syracusean found within their borders unless a ransome's paid. Meanwhile, the son, Antipholus, and his servant, Dromio (also an identical twin), keep running into strangers who seem to know them...
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-12-24
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Revenge of the Pink Panther
Overview: Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau is dead. At least that is what the world—and Charles Dreyfus—believe when a dead body is discovered in Clouseau's car after being shot off the road. Naturally, Clouseau knows differently and, taking advantage of not being alive, sets out to discover why an attempt was made on his life.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-08
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How Many Miles to Babylon?
Overview: Wealthy Alexander Moore and working-class Jerry Crowe are childhood friends and in 1914 find themselves in the same Army unit - Alex as an officer and Jerry as a private. They still remain close, however, until Jerry is court-martialed for desertion, and Alex is put in charge of the firing squad.
Genres: Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-02-26
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Robbery
Overview: In this fictionalised account of the Great Train Robbery, career criminal Paul Clifton plans an audacious crime: the robbery of a mail train carrying millions in cash.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-08-01
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The Island of Adventure
Overview: Four British teens on vacation visit an island and discover that a terrorist group is using it as their headquarters.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-12-01
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Just for Fun
Overview: When the government cuts the quota of musical programs permitted on television, teenagers Mark and Cherry lead others youngsters in forming their own political party.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-02-01
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Love's Labour's Lost
Overview: When the King of Navarre and three of his cronies swear to spend all their days in study and not to look at any girls, they've forgotten that the daughter of the King of France is coming on a diplomatic visit. And the lady herself and her attendants play merry havoc with their intentions.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-05
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A Stitch in Time
Overview: An accident in the butchers shop leads Norman Pitkin and Mr Grimsdale to the hospital where, after causing the normal ammount of chaos, Pitkin finds Lindy, a little girl who hasn't spoken or smiled since her parents were killed in an aeroplane accident. Pitkin decides to help.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-12-01
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The Mountain and the Molehill
Overview: It is May 1944, two weeks before D-day. Britain stands poised for the long-awaited invasion of France - thousands of troops wait anxiously for the orders to come for embarkation. MI5 is horrified to discover the top-secret codewords for the invasion suddenly appearing as clues in the Daily Telegraph crossword. Two agents are immediately dispatched to confront the culprit, the headmaster of a boys' school in southern England.
Genres: Drama History War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-10-15
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