Alfred Lynch
Also Known As: Alfred Cornelius Lynch
Biography: Alfred Cornelius Lynch (26 January 1931 – 16 December 2003) was a British actor on stage, film and television. Lynch was born in Whitechapel, London, the son of a plumber. After attending a Roman Catholic school, he worked in a draughtsman's office before entering national service. Then, whilst working in a factory, he attended theatre acting evening classes, at which he met his life partner, James Culliford. In 1958 he joined the Royal Court Theatre and acted in a number of plays. After 1960 his career moved more into film and television, for example appearing with Sean Connery in the 1961 film On the Fiddle and the 1965 film The Hill. He also appeared in the 1968 adaptation of The Sea Gull, and the 1990 film The Krays. Some of his later television credits include reading children's stories on Jackanory, Going Straight and the Doctor Who serial The Curse of Fenric as Commander Millington. After James Culliford's stroke in 1972, Lynch moved from London to Brighton until James's death in 2002. Lynch himself died from cancer in 2003.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Birthday: January 26, 1931
Deathday: December 16, 2003
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Gender: Male
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The Krays
Overview: The Krays is a film based on the lives and crimes of the British gangsters Ronald and Reginald Kray, twins who are often referred to as The Krays and were active in London in the 1960s.
Genres: Drama Crime History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-04-27
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The Hill
Overview: North Africa, World War II. British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to struggle up a brutal incline. It's not a military objective. It's The Hill, a manmade instrument of torture, a tower of sand seared by a white-hot sun. And the troops' tormentors are not the enemy, but their own comrades-at-arms.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-06-17
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The Taming of the Shrew
Overview: Italy, 16th century. Petruchio, a choleric, lying and poor rural landowner from Verona, arrives in Padua in search of fortune and a wife, while Baptista, a wealthy merchant, announces that he will not allow Bianca, his youngest daughter, to marry until the temperamental and unruly Katherina, his eldest daughter, does.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-03-08
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House of Character
Overview: Bisthorpe moves into a flat where a host of bizarre events occur: hands come through walls, light bulbs explode, furniture talks, he turns into a table-top model in an advertising agency, etc. Finally, it's revealed that the new flat is, in fact, a room in a psychiatric asylum.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-10
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The Password Is Courage
Overview: Sergeant-Major Charles Coward, a brave British soldier is captured by German forces during World War II. When he's thrown into a prisoner of war camp, he immediately plans his escape. Masquerading as a wounded German soldier, he makes it as far as the medical tent, where the deceived enemy forces award him the Iron Cross. Though he is ultimately discovered, he goes on to courageously pursue his freedom with a whimsical and undying audacity.
Genres: Comedy Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-06-01
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The Blockhouse
Overview: A group of Slave workers, drafted by the Nazis to help construct their coastal defences in 1944, are trapped in an underground bunker when the Allies land at Normandy on D-Day. They find huge stores of food, but not enough candles. The slow dying of the light parallels their increasing boredom, illness, and jealousy during their entrapment. Based on the Novel 'Le Blockhaus' by Jean Paul Clebert
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Already It's Tomorrow
Overview: One minute a girl is out on the road, and the next she is waking up in a strange room with a boy she does not know and a day has passed.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-11-06
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West 11
Overview: Joe Beckett, seasoned citizen of the bedsitter belt, aged about 22, is the renegade son of modest, respectable parents and, to use his own description, 'an emotional leper'. He decides that he needs a violent shock to shake him back into life, and as a result accepts a commission to carry out the murder of a total stranger for a man he meets in a coffee bar...
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-10-08
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On the Razzle
Overview: When their boss goes off to Vienna to dine with his fiancé, his clerks decide this may be their last chance for an adventure (razzle) and head for the Big City. Zangler must cancel his plans, as his niece has run off with her boyfriend. Naturally, soon everyone is running into everyone else!
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-03-01
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55 Days at Peking
Overview: Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compound in Peking during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion. The disparate interests unite for survival despite competing factions, overwhelming odds, delayed relief and tacit support of the Boxers by the Empress of China and her generals.
Genres: History War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-05-06
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On the Fiddle
Overview: Tricked into joining the RAF by a wily judge, wide boy Horace Pope sets his sights on the main chance, teams with slow-witted, good-hearted gypsy Pedlar Pascoe, and works up a lucrative racket in conning both his colleagues and the RAF. By means of various devious schemes Pope and Pascoe manage to avoid the front lines until they are sent to France - where they find themselves making unexpected and uncomfortably close contact with the enemy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-10-10
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The Sea Gull
Overview: Film adaptation of Anton Chekhov's story of life in rural Russia during the latter part of the 19th century.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-23
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Bewitched
Overview: The story is set in a small English coastal town, around the turn of the century. A young woman, thought by many in the village to be a witch, dies suddenly one day. Not long after she's buried, the villagers begin to see her walking around the area and especially along the shoreline. The village minister begins to look into her life and her death, hoping to lay the spirit to rest.
Genres: Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-07-08
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Horror of Darkness
Overview: A studio-based drama by John Hopkins focusing on a trio of people at the point of crisis, with an underlying theme of homosexuality a couple of years before legalisation.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-03-10
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Your Name's Not God, It's Edgar
Overview: Edgar Lunt lives his life by scientific principles, that is, for every action there is a reaction. He believes that any pleasure he might have, will mean, somebody will suffer somewhere else. The result is he is not very happy at all, until Trevor, a young student,tries to show him a fresh outlook on life.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-09
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Prisoner and Escort
Overview: Private Jupp is under arrest for a long list of charges and is being escorted by train to Catterick Camp. A girl is invited to share their compartment on the long train journey and the encounter reveals the truth about the escort as well as the prisoner.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-04-05
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Until the End of the World
Overview: In 1999, a woman's life is forever changed after she survives a car crash with two bank robbers, who enlist her help to take the money to a drop in Paris. On the way, she runs into another fugitive from the law — an American doctor on the run from the CIA. They want to confiscate his father's invention – a device which allows anyone to record their dreams and visions.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1991-09-12
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Two and Two Make Six
Overview: An US airman stationed in the UK strikes down his commanding officer. Believing he killed him, the airman goes on the run with a girl. They run into a couple that looks like them and a mix up happens.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-05-01
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Doctor Who: The Curse of Fenric
Overview: The Doctor and Ace arrive at a secret military base during World War II, where an ancient evil from the Doctor's past prepares to make his final deadly move. As hideous vampires rise from the sea and Russian commandoes begin to close in, they are confronted not only with a mystery from the distant past but also a terrifying vision of mankind's future...
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Action Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-11-15
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Look Back in Anger
Overview: A disillusioned, angry university graduate comes to terms with his grudge against middle-class life and values.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-09-15
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Loophole
Overview: When architect Stephen Booker loses his partnership, he finds jobs hard to come by, and with money in short supply, he unwittingly becomes involved in a daring scheme to rob one of London's biggest bank vaults.
Genres: Crime Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-06-25
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The Oresteia
Overview: Agamemnon returns home from the Trojan war and is murdered by his wife, setting off a chain of revenge that stretches across this trilogy of play. Directed by Peter Brook for the National Theatre, this is an all-male performance with masks.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-10-09
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Second Best
Overview: The difficult relationship between a british postal officer and his adoptive son.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-30
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The Secret Agent
Overview: 1992 BBC adaptation of the Joseph Conrad novel of 1907 concerning the mostly inactive spy Alfred Verloc, who is ordered by his superior Mr Vladimir to carry out a terrorist act. Verloc reluctantly plans the operation, seeking help from The Professor. Verloc is also an informant for the police and the Assistant Commissioner and Chief Inspector Heat add additional pressure on Verloc and his attempts to carry out his plan. Verloc’s subsequent actions gravely affect his wife who is devoted to her mentally unbalanced brother Stevie.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-10-28
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