Tom Georgeson
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Biography: Liverpudlian actor Tom Georgeson is best known for his roles in several groundbreaking TV dramas including Between the Lines and Boys from the Blackstuff, Scully and G.B.H. - the last three all penned by Alan Bleasdale. For film fans he is perhaps best remembered for his role as crook George Thomason (a play on his own name) in John Cleese and Charles Crichton's 1988 comedy smash A Fish Called Wanda.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Liverpool, England
Birthday: August 08, 1937
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Gender: Male
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A Fish Called Wanda
Overview: While a diamond advocate attempts to steal a collection of diamonds, troubles arise when he realises he’s not the only one after the collection.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-07-15
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Angel
Overview: Edwardian England. A precocious girl from a poor background with aspirations to being a novelist finds herself swept to fame and fortune when her tasteless romances hit the best seller lists. Her life changes in unexpected ways when she encounters an aristocratic brother and sister, both of whom have cultural ambitions, and both of whom fall in love with her.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-02-17
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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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Home Run
Overview: Back in London from abroad, Bill English has it all - smart flat with a river view, flash car and, of course, the beautiful Anna. But he was born and brought up in these parts and everything's changed. Anna asks: 'Where are the ghosts Bill?'
Genres: Comedy Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-10-01
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Under The Greenwood Tree
Overview: Set in a rustic English village in the mid 19th century, Under The Greenwood Tree tells the story of a poor young man who falls for a middle-class schoolteacher and attempts to win her over.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-12-26
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No Surrender
Overview: It's New Year's Eve in Thatcher's de-industrialising Britain. The scene is set at a seedy bar in Liverpool where a group of Irish Protestant and Irish Catholic pensioners will gather to clash and bash the new year in.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-09-11
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The Black Stuff
Overview: A Liverpool tarmac gang set off for a contract in Middlesbrough. After a day of work, the group are approached by two gypsies who offer them a lucrative side job.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-02
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Going Back
Overview: A remote stone house nestles peacefully on the edge of the Yorkshire moors. In the garden. Faith Armstrong describes the flowers and the late afternoon skies to Jack, her blind husband. "The sun is almost setting. The sky is blue, with ... those little puffy clouds like meringues. There are still leaves on the trees. Oh . quite a few birds are gathering . " All is peaceful. As they talk, a small figure appears walking towards the cottage on the moorland road. Slowly it becomes recognisable as the Armstrong's son David. David's arrival is unexpected. He left home three years ago, and Faith and Jack have heard nothing from him until now. Things at home have changed a lot in those three years. His father has gone blind, and his brother Malcolm is now engaged 'to Heather. David's former girlfriend. The family are curious. Why has David suddenly decided to return home? How long is he staying? Is he in trouble?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-07-24
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Swing
Overview: When Martin Luxford (Hugo Speer) leaves jail, he decides to form a swing band, having been taught to play the saxophone by his cellmate Jack. Returning to his native Liverpool, Martin pulls together a backing band of misfits and loners, and recruits his ex-girlfriend Joan (Lisa Stansfield) as a singer. Things are complicated somewhat by the fact that Joan is now married to the policeman who arrested Martin, and when the band's first gig - at a heavy metal pub - goes badly, it seems as though the road to musical success may be a rocky one.
Genres: Drama Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-06-18
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The Virgin of Liverpool
Overview: In Liverpool, Joanne Conlon rescues a weeping statue of the Virgin Mary from her local church's replacement plans. As her family faces financial struggles and newfound success, the statue's tears return, turning their lives upside down and drawing crowds from near and far to witness the miraculous phenomenon.
Genres: Comedy Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-03-15
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Cause of Death
Overview: A QED drama special, based upon a real-life case of medical negligence. Within four days of being admitted to hospital with minor injuries, Ray Peters' son Mark is in a coma, and two weeks later he is dead. Suspecting critical mistakes by the doctors. Ray vows to find out the truth.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Documentary Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-07-09
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Electricity
Overview: A woman leaves her seaside hometown to search for her long-lost brother, experiencing hallucinations brought on by her epilepsy during her trip.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-12-12
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Hancock & Joan
Overview: Drama which tells the story of comedian Tony Hancock's love affair with his friend's wife, and her fight to save the man and his career.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-03-26
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The Boy with the Transistor Radio
Overview: Terry is leaving school with few prospects in his native Liverpool. His father finds him a job in a local warehouse but Terry has other ideas. Living in a dream world promulgated by a radio DJ to whom he listens constantly. Terry is convinced there is something better and he makes an angry escape bid.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-09-01
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Resnick: Rough Treatment
Overview: A kilo of cocaine. Hardly what two small-time crooks were expecting to find when they broke into TV director Harold Roy's shabby mansion. But nor was Harold's frustrated wife expecting to fall in love with one of the intruders. Now she's going to make a deal with him - for both her husband and the drugs. But the precious powder belongs to someone else. And he wants it back. So if he feels he's been double-crossed, there's no telling what might happen. Detective Inspector Resnick has a hunch that there's more to this story than meets the eye. And as his investigations lead him down the mean streets of the TV industry and an inner-city drugs ring, it's obvious that more than one person is dancing on thin ice.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-07-25
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Man Dancin'
Overview: Tough comedy drama set in Glasgow. Former enforcer Jimmy exits jail a changed man, but both his criminal boss and a corrupt copper think he's bluffing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-02-20
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The Man from the Pru
Overview: The 20 January 1931 slaying of Julia Wallace remains unsolved, despite an ongoing stream of investigative writers giving an impression that a solution to the crime has been found through a surfeit of working hypotheses.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-06-30
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Wuthering Heights
Overview: Gipsy boy Heathcliffe is adopted by a god-fearing landowner in northern England and grows up as the soul-mate of the daughter, Cathy Earnshaw. When father dies, stern son Hindley returns and bans Heathcliffe to the stables; when they spy upon their upper class neighbors, Edgar Linton sends the dogs upon them and chases Heath but starts an affair -love comes only from him- with her. When Hindley's socialite wife Frances dies in childbirth, he is completely embittered, becomes a drunk unable to care for his son Hareton and has to sell Wuthering Hights- to Heathcliffe. After a misunderstanding Cathy marries Linton, Heath retorts by a loveless match with his sister. Even Cathy's death doesn't stop the cycle of spite, grief and harm so it poisons the next generation's lives as well while she keeps haunting Heathcliffe
Genres: TV Movie Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-11
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Doctor Who: Logopolis
Overview: After an encounter with the Master, an airline stewardess named Tegan Jovanka becomes an unwitting stowaway aboard the TARDIS as it travels to the planet Logopolis. There, the Doctor discovers that the Master's interference with the Logopolitans' advanced mathematics has unleashed a wave of entropy which threatens to consume the entire universe.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-03-21
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The Locksmith
Overview: When his estranged wife is brutally attacked by a burglar, a law-abiding locksmith unconvinced that the junkie charged for the crime is the real attacker starts his own investigation.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-09-25
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The Land Girls
Overview: During World War II, the organisation "The Women's Land Army" recruited women to work on British farms while the men were off to war. Three such "land girls" of different social backgrounds - quiet Stella, young hairdresser Prue, and Cambridge graduate Ag - become best friends in spite of their different backgrounds.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-06-12
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Irish Jam
Overview: Upon discovering that their town is up for sale, crafty Irish villagers scheme to raise the money to prevent the buy-out. They hold a poetry contest with a tempting grand prize -- the deed to their local pub. But what could happen when a duplicitous American rapper emerges as the best poet around?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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Downtime
Overview: Former police psychologist Rob helps to save young Chrissy when she is about to commit suicide by jumping of 21st-story balcony with her 4-year-old son Jake. When he persuades her to go on a date, they are trapped with Jake in an elevator after a drunken gang crashes into the elevator's engine room and creates havoc.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-21
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The English Harem
Overview: Tracy a young working class girl, who - against the wishes of her parents and racist ex-boyfriend - becomes one of three wives of West London Persian restaurateur, Sam.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-12-27
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Lyddie
Overview: Lyddie faces a daunting task: She's struggling to reunite her family and save their farm. To do that, she takes a job at a cotton mill and, with the help of Diana (who's toiled in the mills since age 10), learns that there are risks involved with being a factory girl -- namely, dangerous working conditions and low wages. Soon, Lyddie finds herself in the forefront of a suffrage movement to better those appalling conditions.
Genres: Drama History Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-13
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Notes on a Scandal
Overview: A veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one of her 15-year-old students. However, her intentions with this new "friend" also go well beyond platonic friendship.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-12-25
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Fierce Creatures
Overview: Ex-policeman Rollo Lee is sent to run Marwood Zoo, the newly acquired business of a New Zealand tycoon. In order to meet high profit targets and keep the zoo open, Rollo enforces a new 'fierce creatures' policy, whereby only the most impressive and dangerous animals are allowed to remain in the zoo. However, the keepers are less enthusiastic about complying with these demands.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-23
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All's Well That Ends Well
Overview: An adaptation directed by Claude Whatham for the BBC's Theatre 625 slot. Essentially a recording of John Barton's acclaimed Royal Shakespeare Company production starring Catherine Lacey (the Countess), Ian Richardson (Bertram), Lynn Farleigh (Helen), Clive Swift (Parolles) and Sebastian Shaw (the King), it was broadcast on 3 June 1968.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-03-06
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The Treasure Seekers
Overview: Five motherless children, with the help of a famous doctor, are determined to save their financially strapped father.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-25
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The Reckoning
Overview: In 14th Century England, this tale of murder and mystery follows a fugitive priest who falls in with a troupe of actors. As they arrive in a small town, the actors encounter a woman being sentenced to death for practicing witchcraft and murder. Discarding the expected bible stories, the actors now stage a performance based on the crime. Through the performance of the play, they discover a mystery.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-02-26
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FairyTale: A True Story
Overview: Two children in 1917 take a photograph, believed by some to be the first scientific evidence of the existence of fairies. Based on a true story
Genres: Fantasy Drama Mystery Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-24
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The After Dinner Joke
Overview: A comic extravaganza about a young woman's adventures in the world of big business charity.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-02-14
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Doctor Who: Genesis of the Daleks
Overview: The Time Lords dispatch the Doctor to the past of the planet Skaro on his deadliest adventure yet — to prevent the creation of the Daleks.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-04-12
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Hidden Talents
Overview: Nellie (Pat Phoenix) is weak and bedridden in her aging, decrepit house due to a bad heart. Living out of her front room, Nellie is looked after by her son Harold (Tom Bell) who is going deaf and prone to eccentric and emotional outbursts following a motorbike accident some years previous. Relations are tense and fractious between Nellie and Harold, a state of affairs which isn't helped by Nellie's affectionate recollections of her estranged son Stanley (Tom Georgeson) who left many years before, taking with him Nellie's savings.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-11-15
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The Death of Glory
Overview: Prevented by health reasons from joining the Army, a man lives out his military fantasies by leading a failing marching band. His life changes when he discovers his beloved ex-Army father has a secret.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-09-11
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