Anna Wing
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Biography: Anna Wing MBE (30 October 1914 – 7 July 2013) was an English actress who had a long career in television and theatre, known for portraying the role of Beale family matriarch Lou Beale in the BBC soap opera EastEnders.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Hackney, London, England, UK
Birthday: October 30, 1914
Deathday: July 07, 2013
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Gender: Female
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The Blood on Satan's Claw
Overview: The accidental unearthing of Satan’s earthly remains causes the children of a 17th-century English village to slowly convert into a coven of devil worshipers.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-01-28
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Sons and Lovers
Overview: An adaptation for television by Trevor Griffiths of DH Lawrence's classic novel
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-14
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Son of Rambow
Overview: Will is looking for an escape from his family when he encounters Lee, the school bully. Armed with a video camera and a copy of Rambo, Lee plans to make his own action-packed video epic.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-22
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And Did Those Feet ?
Overview: Lord Fountain hates his illegitimate twin boys as he does not seem to be able to produce legitimate heirs.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-06-02
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Dog Eat Dog
Overview: A group of twenty-somethings, one of whom is a single father with a precious daughter, have been unsuccessful in getting into a certain club so they can have a chance to DJ there and start a career out of it. A series of events has lumbered them with a dog napping scheme gone badly wrong, ending up with them owning a particular pooch belonging to a dog-loving local drug dealer.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-12-07
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A Doll's House
Overview: Nora Helmer lives a quiet life with her husband, Torvald, in a small Norwegian town. While he works diligently at a bank, she looks after their children. But Torvald doesn't know that several years ago, when he was very ill and she was desperate for money, Nora forged a loan document and has been secretly working to pay the money back ever since. The arrival of her friend Kristine prompts Nora to re-evaluate her life and confront Torvald.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-08-16
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The Godsend
Overview: An English family of six takes in a pregnant woman who disappears shortly after giving birth. They raise the baby girl as their own, but over the years the strange deaths of their children make them consider whether the little girl is more than she appears.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-25
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Xtro
Overview: Tony's father Sam, abducted by aliens three years earlier, returns to earth and seeks out his wife and son, but Rachel has since been living with Joe and the reunion is awkward. Joe doesn't trust Sam, and Rachel can't quite decide what her feelings are for her two men. Sam is not the same as when he left, and he begins affecting Tony in frightening ways.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-12-06
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The 14
Overview: Set in London’s East End, The 14 (aka The Wild Little Bunch aka Existence) is based on the true story of fourteen children who struggle against overwhelming pressures to stay together after the death of their single mother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-06-15
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A Day Out
Overview: Alan Bennett's debut play for television follows the members of a Halifax cycling club, on an outing from Halifax to the ruins of Fountains Abbey. Set in the summer of 1911 and projects an idyllic vision of Edwardian England .
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-12-24
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My Brother David
Overview: David Scarboro, who played Mark Fowler in EastEnders (1985), fell to his death at Beachy Head in 1988. Simon, his younger brother, presents this tribute, featuring David's achievements as a young actor as well as his problems.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-03-02
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Full Circle
Overview: After the death of her daughter, wealthy housewife Julia Lofting abruptly leaves her husband and moves into an old Victorian home in London to re-start her life. All seems well until she is haunted by the sadness of losing her own child and the ghosts of other children.
Genres: Drama Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-02-09
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The Witches and the Grinnygog
Overview: An ancient church is being dismantled and moved to a new location, stone by stone. One of the gargoyles from the stones falls into the possession of a mother who takes the stone man back to her family. Soon after, four strangers show up in the village and the Sogood & Firkettle children seem to be the only ones who question the mysterious things that begin to happen. This film was originally broadcast across six 25 minute episodes with a total runtime of 150 minutes. A few years later, the US cable network Nickelodeon edited the miniseries into a 2 hour (including commercials) movie block. This 2 hour edited version was shown throughout the 1980s on US television.
Genres: Fantasy Family TV Movie Mystery History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-11-14
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Skirmishes
Overview: Two sisters sit at the bedside of their dying mother. One has dedicated herself to looking after her mother, whilst the other has dedicated herself to life, but has returned for the imminent death.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-07-27
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Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
Overview: The comedienne stars in this festive sketch show, alongside a host of celebrity guests.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-12-25
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Up the Junction
Overview: The lives and loves of three young working class women, set in the pubs, terraced houses and factories of Battersea, South London.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-11-03
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Runners
Overview: When his young daughter disappears, her father refuses to accept that she is dead and sets out on a journey to find her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-08-18
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Heavens Above!
Overview: A naive but caring prison chaplain, who happens to have the same last name as an upper class cleric, is by mistake appointed as vicar to a small and prosperous country town. His belief in charity and forgiveness sets him at odds with the conservative and narrow-minded locals, and he soon creates social ructions by appointing a black dustman as his churchwarden, taking in a gypsy family, and persuading the local landowner to provide free food for the church to distribute free to the people of the town. When the congregation leaders realise the mistake and call for the Church of England to remove him, this turns out to be a very, very difficult issue - until one clergyman realises that a British project to send a man into space is in need of an astronaut...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-05-20
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Ex Memoria
Overview: A film about memory, loss and survival; Eva Lipszyc is a survivor, but she is now locked away in the twilight world of Alzheimer's disease. We see the world from her point of view, at her eye level, and we see how a chance encounter with a caring young nurse breaks through the barrier
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-08-26
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On Giant's Shoulders
Overview: The true story of Terry Wiles, born with no limbs in 1962 as a result of his mother's use of the drug thalidomide. This film tells the story of his childhood and adoption by the couple Len and Hazel Wiles who live on a remote farm, and the subsequent challenges and resistance to give Terry a 'normal' life.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-03-28
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
Overview: The death of Sir Charles Baskerville is blamed on a curse that has followed the Baskerville family for two hundred years. Sherlock Holmes is out to uncover the truth about a hound who roams the moors, waiting to attack the heir to the Baskerville estate.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-08-01
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A Night Out
Overview: Albert, a shy and repressed young man who lives with his mother, is persuaded to go for "a night out" with his workmates; it turns nightmarish.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-02-13
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The Naked Civil Servant
Overview: Story of the life of Quentin Crisp, an Englishman who was brave enough to live his life according to his own style even in the hostile days of WW2.
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-12-17
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Billy Liar
Overview: A young Englishman dreams of escaping from his working class family and dead-end job as an undertaker's assistant. A number of indiscretions cause him to lie in order to avoid the penalties. His life turns into a mess and he has an opportunity to run away and leave it all behind.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-08-15
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Fungus the Bogeyman
Overview: BBC adaptation of Raymond Briggs' children's book. Fungus (voice of Mak Wilson)'s job is to venture above Bogeydom and scare dry-cleaners (a Bogey's name for humans). But on one trip disaster strikes and a dry-cleaner discovers their existence in Bogeydom. The dry-cleaner, Jessica (Clare Thomas), strikes up a friendship with Fungus' children and escapes back home to tell her father George (Martin Clunes) all about it. George then decides to stake-out the entrance to Bogeydom, in order to catch a real-life Bogeyman.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-11-28
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Doctor Who: Kinda
Overview: The TARDIS lands on the idyllic jungle world of Deva Loka, which is being surveyed for possible Earth colonisation. Deva Loka is already home to a race of apparent savages, however: a mysterious people with strange powers which have mentally unbalanced the members of the expedition. To make matters worse, an ancient enemy of the natives known as the Mara is intent upon revenge, and latches onto Tegan's mind as its bridgehead to victory.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-02-09
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Providence
Overview: On the eve of his 78th birthday, the ailing, alcoholic writer Clive Langham spends a painful and sleepless night mentally composing and recomposing scenes for a novel in which characters based on his own family are shaped by his fantasies and memories, alongside his caustic commentary on their behaviour.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-01-25
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Through the Night
Overview: The play tells the story of Christine Potts, who undergoes an unexpected mastectomy, and struggles to cope with the aftermath and the deficiencies of her post-operative care.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-12-02
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Family Matters
Overview: Jan thinks he is Swedish-Danish, but after his mother's death he discovers he was adopted. As his world begins to fall apart, he decides to find his birth parents. The hunt leads him to Portugal - in a taxi - where more surprises await him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1993-11-19
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The Ploughman's Lunch
Overview: As England begins its military engagement in the Falklands, a BBC news journalist attempts to climb up from his working-class roots, at any cost, lying to those around him to get what he wants, only to discover that he is the recipient of a deception far more clever than his own.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-05-30
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Tricia
Overview: Davies discovers a link between three separate investigations - an armed robbery at a job centre, the disappearance of a pensioner and a routine house burglary.
Genres: Crime Comedy Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-02-21
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Two Gentlemen Sharing
Overview: An insecure Briton and a Briton of Jamaican descent share a London apartment together.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-09-17
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Tooth
Overview: Tooth is a young, feisty Tooth Fairy, who lives in a world called Fairytopia that has lost its ability to use magic. Fed up with the way most fairies have forgotten about magic, she decides to give away all of its money. When Tooth begins to understand how much trouble she is in, she realizes the only person who can help is the legendary Mrs. C, who disappeared, along with magic over 100 years ago. Teaming up with two human children and a number of fairies, who are living incognito amongst humans she sets off on the adventure of a lifetime. Pursued by the evil Plug, a terrifying fairy hunter and his posse, the race is on to save the world before Christmas, Easter and all the holidays are ruined forever.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-02-13
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