Jay Simpson
Also Known As: Джей Симпсон
Biography: Jay Simpson is a prolific English film, television and stage actor. Most recently, he has appeared in Chernobyl and Frontier. Simpson is perhaps best known in television for portraying cockney desk sergeant Ian 'Brookie' Brooke in Foyle's War, and he has also appeared on television in Recovery with David Tennant and Sarah Parish, Hot Money, Bad Crowd, A Touch of Frost, Casualty, Primeval, The Bill, Peep Show, Rome, Ashes to Ashes, Murder in Suburbia and Soundproof. Jay also uses his charm and voice skills as he is the voice of 'The Tree of Temptation' in Big Brother. His films include Hush Your Mouth, The Holiday, Pride and Prejudice and Erik the Viking and the 1988 TV film The Firm with Gary Oldman. He also voiced a major character, Flea, in the 2008 English language DVD re-release of the cult 2006 Norwegian animated film, Free Jimmy, alongside Woody Harrelson and with dialogue written by Simon Pegg. The character of Flea was something of comedy relief in the film, with a character partly inspired by Sean Ryder. In 2008 he appeared alongside Ross Boatman and Roger Lloyd-Pack in Patrick Marber's play Dealer's Choice for a run on the West End. In 2011 he appeared as George Redman in the television film The Suspicions of Mr Whicher for ITV. In 2011, he appeared in "The National Anthem", an episode of the anthology series Black Mirror On 13 April 2012, he appeared as Stretch in the sitcom Not Going Out and appeared in the ITV series Mrs Biggs as one of the great train robbers, Bruce Reynolds.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
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Shifty
Overview: Shifty, a young crack cocaine dealer in London, sees his life quickly spiral out of control when his best friend returns home. Stalked by a customer desperate to score at all costs, and with his family about to turn their back on him for good, Shifty must out-run and out-smart a rival drug dealer, intent on setting him up for a big fall.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-24
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Ferryman
Overview: A beautiful, reckless woman joins a secret club whose sinister but brilliant premise seems to provide the solution to her problem. But when she falls for a haunted young soldier, his desperation to keep her alive pulls him deeper into his own demons and threatens to destroy their relationship. A dark, poignant love story where every moment matters.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-01-31
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The Murder at Road Hill House
Overview: In 1860, Inspector Jack Whicher of Scotland Yard is sent to rural Wiltshire to investigate the murder of the three-year-old boy Saville Kent, who was snatched from his bed at night and murdered.
Genres: Drama Mystery TV Movie Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-04-25
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The Critic
Overview: Jimmy Erskine is the most feared theatre critic of the age. He lives as flamboyantly as he writes and takes pleasure in savagely taking down any actor who fails to meet his standards. When the owner of the Daily Chronicle dies, and his son takes over, Jimmy quickly finds himself at odds with his new boss and his position under threat. In an attempt to preserve the power and influence he holds so sacred, Jimmy strikes a Faustian pact with a struggling actress, entangling them and the boss in a thrilling but deadly web of desire, blackmail, and betrayal.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-09-13
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Tuesday
Overview: A mother and her teenage daughter must confront Death when it arrives in the form of an astonishing talking bird.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-06-07
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Hot Money
Overview: Three women, Bridget, Liz and Jackie, embark on a plan to steal thousands of pounds of banknotes that were due to be destroyed at the Bank of England's incinerating plant in Essex. Fictionalised account of a real-life case.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-12-12
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Mrs In-Betweeny
Overview: After the death of their parents, three children are put into the care of their aunt Brandon - unaware of the fact she is a transgender woman. Over time, as they get used to the idea, the kids use Mrs In-Betweeny to their advantage - with disastrous results and comical laughter.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-03-03
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Recovery
Overview: Alan and Tricia Hamilton are blissfully happy. Until one day their perfect life is torn apart when Alan steps in front of a passing car, and he is left with a brain injury that completely transforms his personality.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-02-25
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Wall of Silence
Overview: The tale of a gang killing near a south-east London council estate.
Genres: TV Movie Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-12
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The I Inside
Overview: When Simon awakens in the hospital after surviving a near-fatal accident, amnesia has erased the last two years from his memory. He learns that his brother was killed, he has married a woman he doesn't remember and he's haunted by strange visions of the woman he loved.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-03-21
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Death of a Son
Overview: The true story of Pauline Williams, who struggled to bring the people who supplied her son with the illegal drugs that caused his death to justice.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-08
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Age of Heroes
Overview: The true story of the formation of Ian Fleming's 30 Commando unit, a precursor for the elite forces in the U.K.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-05-19
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Erik the Viking
Overview: Erik the Viking gathers warriors from his village and sets out on a dangerous journey to Valhalla, to ask the gods to end the Age of Ragnorok and allow his people to see sunlight again. A Pythonesque satire of Viking life.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-01
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The Holiday
Overview: Two women, one American and one British, swap homes at Christmastime following bad breakups. Each woman finds romance with a local man but realizes that the imminent return home may end the relationship.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-12-05
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South West 9
Overview: Five very different characters are thrown together in one weird, mashed up day. It started out like any other, but 24 hours later everything had changed. South West 9 takes you through the windscreen of the new millenium. The death of idealism, capitalism, religion and hippies. Even the drugs don't work anymore. The 'summer of love' generation have come down and they're ready to riot. Seattle. Stockholm. Paris. Genoa. May Day riots.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-12
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The Guvnors
Overview: The Guvnors is a violent thriller set amongst the clans and firms of South East London, bringing two generations together in brutal conflict.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-06-24
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National Theatre Live: Othello
Overview: Farewell the tranquil mind. A bright, headstrong daughter of a senator; elevated by her status but stifled by its expectations. A refugee of slavery; having risen to the top of a white world, he finds that love across racial lines has a cost. Wed in secret, Desdemona and Othello crave a new life together. But as unseen forces conspire against them, they find their future is not theirs to decide.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-02-23
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Empire State
Overview: In the docklands of East London stands the Empire State, a nightclub full of magic and mystery. Designed like an ocean liner, it's become a battle ground where anything can happen. In the midst of the action, a young boy stows aboard to search for his friend who has disappeared in the entrails of the club.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-03-01
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Sherbet
Overview: Set entirely inside the confines of an taxi cab, on what seems like just another late-night taxi fare, this particular trip is anything but, altering the course of the lives of both driver and rider forever. One evening 15-year-old Isa enters Rene's cab and his life. At first, he perceives her as just another annoying 'woke' teenager on what he hoped was another simple and quiet journey, but as a revelation about Isa's situation comes to light, this goes from a dime-a-dozen taxi fare to a life-changing experience that forces Rene to confront things in his life that he has been running from for the longest time.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-01-18
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The Great Train Robbery
Overview: It was one of the greatest heists in British history. £3 million – worth over £40 million today – stolen from a moving train by a gang of thieves who almost got away with it.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-08
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Occasional, Strong
Overview: A man signs up as a driver for a group of criminals on a dangerous job. On the way to the hit the man hears the lottery numbers and realises he's got the winning ticket on him. However the job goes badly and the lottery ticket is collected as litter by a street cleaner. The leader of the gang goes after the cleaner while on a picnic with his daughter to get the ticket back.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-12-12
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The 101-Year-Old Man Who Skipped Out on the Bill and Disappeared
Overview: Drinking the tasty Folk Soda puts a spring in the 101 Year Old Man’s step and his next adventure takes him around the World and back to Sweden, during which time he is chased by the CIA, a Balinese debt collector and becomes an executive at a soft drink company.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2016-12-25
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Terminal
Overview: In the dark heart of a sprawling, anonymous city, two assassins carry out a sinister mission, a teacher battles a fatal illness, and an enigmatic janitor and a curious waitress lead dangerous double lives. Murderous consequences unravel in the dead of night, as their lives intertwine at the hands of a mysterious criminal mastermind who is hell-bent on revenge.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller Action Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-05-10
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Beautiful People
Overview: In London, during October 1993, England is playing Holland in the preliminaries of the World Cup. The Bosnian War is at its height, and refugees from the ex-Yugoslavia are arriving. Football rivals, and political adversaries from the Balkans all precipitate conflict and amusing situations. Meanwhile, the lives of four English families are affected in different ways by encounter with the refugees.
Genres: War Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-16
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Wild Bill
Overview: Out on parole after 8 years inside Bill Hayward returns home to find his now 11 and 15 year old sons abandoned by their mother and fending for themselves. Unwilling to play Dad, an uncaring Bill is determined to move on.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-10-21
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The Firm
Overview: A seemingly respectable estate agent leads a double life as the head of a vicious, well-organised gang of football hooligans.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-02-26
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Their Finest
Overview: During the Blitz of World War II, a female screenwriter works on a film celebrating England's resilience as a way to buoy a weary populace's spirits. Her efforts to dramatise the true story of two sisters who undertook their own maritime mission to rescue wounded soldiers are met with mixed feelings by a dismissive all-male staff.
Genres: Romance War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-02-19
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Round Ireland with a Fridge
Overview: The movie tells the story of a disillusioned television personality whose career has stalled and who is looking for answers but doesn't know the questions. When his best friend taunts him for losing his sense of adventure Tony accepts a drunken £100 bet and sets off with his unconventional traveling companion for an adventure that proved to be entertaining, educational, challenging and at times downright silly.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-01-01
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Hattie
Overview: Reveals how the home life of the larger-than-life Carry On actress Hattie Jacque was blown apart by a secret sexual liaison with her handsome young driver while she was married to Dad's Army star John Le Mesurier.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-01-19
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Dreams of a Life
Overview: A filmmaker sets out to discover the life of Joyce Vincent, who died in her bedsit in North London in 2003. Her body wasn't discovered for three years, and newspaper reports offered few details of her life - not even a photograph.
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-08-16
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Club Le Monde
Overview: London, 1993: a wild range of clubbers get together to drink, drug, dance and waste the night away at one of city's most happening underground venues...Club Le Monde.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-10-11
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Shifter
Overview: A young woman, trapped inside a dark building, tries to evade capture from shadowed soldiers and save the life of her husband and child, held hostage. She is the live bait in a game to entrap her mentor, a man of special ability, by an old nemesis, with similar skills.
Genres: Horror Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-09-01
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Blueberry
Overview: As far as Daisy's concerned, mummy's just on holiday. And daddy just has the sniffles. But the truth is her mother's left them and her father's sadness is making him neglect his daughter. It's going to take quite a shock to snap him out of it. Enter Blueberry the snake.
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Original Language: en
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Brexit: The Uncivil War
Overview: Political strategist Dominic Cummings leads a popular but controversial campaign to convince British voters to leave the European Union from 2015 up until the present day.
Genres: History TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-01-19
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Rearview
Overview: Based on a true events a girl fights for her live on the Road - Tears Of Souls -chased by a gang of slave traffickers.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-02-10
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Rush
Overview: In the 1970s, a rivalry propels race car drivers Niki Lauda and James Hunt to fame and glory — until a horrible accident threatens to end it all.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-02
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Enola Holmes
Overview: While searching for her missing mother, intrepid teen Enola Holmes uses her sleuthing skills to outsmart big brother Sherlock and help a runaway lord.
Genres: Adventure Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-09-23
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Sitting in Limbo
Overview: Anthony Bryan and his personal struggle to be accepted as a British Citizen during the Windrush immigration scandal.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-06-08
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Pride & Prejudice
Overview: A story of love and life among the landed English gentry during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is a gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his overbearing wife and five daughters, but if he dies their house will be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met, so the family's future happiness and security is dependent on the daughters making good marriages.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-16
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Bull
Overview: Ten years after he was last seen, a vicious mob enforcer returns home to find his son and methodically track down the gang that double-crossed him. His quest for revenge soon leads to a savage showdown between his wife and her mob boss father.
Genres: Crime Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-11-05
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Acts of Godfrey
Overview: At a two-day business conference, God (Simon Callow) decides to romantically pair Terry, a moral crusader, with his "win-at-all-cost" antithesis, Jacqui. However, fate, assisted by unique and corrupt characters, attempt to beset God's arrangements.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-01-27
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Blitz
Overview: In World War II London, nine-year-old George is evacuated to the countryside by his mother, Rita, to escape the bombings. Defiant and determined to return to his family, George embarks on an epic, perilous journey back home as Rita searches for him.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-11-01
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Hush Your Mouth
Overview: A young man is killed for trying to stop what he sees as evil and his friends seen as fun. Whilst his sister starts an unwitting relationship with the killer and his mother sinks deeper into grief, it is left to his younger brother, seventeen Leo to avoid easy revenge and uncover the uncomfortable truth.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
Overview: A multi-part documentary about Alan Clarke, featuring interviews with various actors, writers and producers.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-06-13
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