Mark Dignam
Also Known As: Cuthbert Mark Dignam
Biography: Cuthbert Mark Dignam (20 March 1909 - 29 September 1989) was an English actor.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Ealing, London, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: March 20, 1909
Age: 116 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: September 29, 1989
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The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's
Overview: The fourth form monsters' latest trick is their best ever – they have burned down St Trinian’s school! As the girls stand trial, the police breathe a sigh of relief, but miraculously the judge's infatuation with a student means the school is freed. For the authorities, it means a new reign of terror as the girls of St Trinian’s regroup with gleeful anticipation.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-12-22
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John Keats: His Life and Death
Overview: Dramatization short on British romantic poet John Keats.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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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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The Dybbuk
Overview: A young bride is possessed by a dybbuk, a malicious possessing spirit, believed to be the dislocated soul of a dead person, on the eve of her wedding.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-10-21
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In Search of the Castaways
Overview: Two teenagers, Mary (Hayley Mills) and Robert (Keith Hamshere) are lead by Professor Paganel (Maurice Chevalier) on a search expedition for the children's shipwrecked sea captain father. This Disney film was based upon Jules Verne's 1868 adventure novel Captain Grant's Children.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-12-01
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A Jolly Bad Fellow
Overview: An English professor decides that there are too many useless people in the world and invents a gas that will kill them off. But first they'll at least have a good laugh.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-03-15
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Hamlet
Overview: Tony Richardson's Hamlet is based on his own stage production. Filmed entirely within the Roundhouse in London (a disused train shed), it is shot almost entirely in close up, focusing the attention on faces and language rather than action.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-21
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Beau Brummell
Overview: Captain George Bryan Brummell is a British soldier who appreciates fine clothing and innovative dress. Although he initially alienates the Prince of Wales with insulting comments about the prince's uniform designs, he eventually becomes his close confidant. Brummel also falls in love with the beautiful Lady Patricia Belham. However, his outspoken manner eventually leads to his being exiled to France.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-11-16
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Frozen Flashes
Overview: In November of 1939, the British consulate in Norway receives documents saying that the Nazis are conducting secret rocket research in Peenemünde. But the British doubt the authenticity of the so called "Oslo report". Thus, the Germans continue their experiments unimpeded. At the same time, resistance groups from France, England, Poland, and Germany try to find and to sabotage the secret Nazi research base. When the first "V 2" rocket is successfully launched, the Allied commanders finally become interested in the "Oslo report".
Genres: Drama War Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1967-04-13
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Sink the Bismarck!
Overview: The story of the breakout of the German battleship Bismarck—accompanied by the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen—during the early days of World War II. The Bismarck and her sister ship, Tirpitz, were the most powerful battleships in the European theater of World War II. The British Navy must find and destroy Bismarck before it can escape into the convoy lanes to inflict severe damage on the cargo shipping which was the lifeblood of the British Isles. With eight 15 inch guns, it was capable of destroying every ship in a convoy while remaining beyond the range of all Royal Navy warships.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-02-11
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The Russian Miracle
Overview: Das russische Wunder (The Russian Miracle) (1963) is a two-part East German documentary directed by Annelie and Andrew Thorndike. The documentary chronicles Russia’s dramatic transformation from the Tsarist Empire to the Soviet Union, covering key historical moments including the 1917 October Revolution and the rise of Soviet communism. Through the use of archival footage, the film explores the socio-political upheavals that reshaped Russia and culminates in the achievements of the Soviet space program. Produced by DEFA, it was first broadcast on East German television in 1963, offering an insightful look at Russia's 20th-century evolution.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-05-07
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The Prisoner
Overview: A cardinal is arrested for treason against the state. He is a popular hero of his people, for his resistance against the Nazis during the war and his resistance when his country again fell to a totalitarian conqueror. In prison, his interrogator is determined to extract a confession of guilt, and thus destroy his power over his people.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-04-19
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Beasts: Baby
Overview: A young couple move to the countryside and discover a strange mummified animal in the wall of their cottage. The wife increasingly feels that she and her unborn child are in danger. Created as an episode of Nigel Kneale’s “Beasts” horror anthology miniseries.
Genres: Horror TV Movie Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-11-06
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Clash by Night
Overview: A gangster is caught and arrested by police. When he's being transported by bus -- filled with innocent civilians -- it's hi-jacked by his gang in attempt to free their boss. They hide out. As the authorities close in they threaten to torch the barn the escapee and his men are hiding in -- with their hostage inside.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-08-29
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Macbeth
Overview: Macbeth and his wife murder Duncan in order to gain his crown, but the bloodbath doesn't stop there, and things supernatural combine to bring the Macbeths down.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-11-05
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Who Killed Jack Robins?
Overview: Directed by Jirí Weiss
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-01
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Further Up Pompeii
Overview: A BBC TV comedy movie about the people living in Pompeii prior to its destruction by volcano, focusing on the life of a house slave (played by Frankie Howerd). A sort of prequel to the 1971 movie "Up Pompeii"
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-03-31
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Murder in the Cathedral
Overview: Murder in the Cathedral is a story about Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, and his struggles against temptation and personal vanity prior to his murder in the great Cathedral.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-09-10
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The Wild Duck
Overview: A devestating, yet bracing look at a family whose proximity to each other belies the decay of their relationships, The Wild Duck is just as modern today as it was when first staged. When Gregors Werle comes to stay with the Ekdals, his idealist nature refuses to tolerate the dreamworld of lies the family is living. However, in his bid to force the Ekdals to see the truth, the skeletons he unearths destroy the family that he wanted to redeem.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-03-21
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There's a Girl in My Soup
Overview: TV personality Robert Danvers, an exceedingly vain rotter, seduces young women daily, never staying long with one. He meets his match in Marion, an American, 19, who's available but refuses any romantic illusions.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-12-15
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The Lie
Overview: Ingmar Bergman play looking at the cool and brittle relationship between a successful architect (Frank Finlay) and his academic wife (Gemma Jones). Commissioned by the Swedish Broadcasting Corporation on behalf of European members participating in ‘The Largest Theatre in the World’. This, the Radio Times explained, was ‘a project which enabled a play to be broadcast simultaneously in several languages across Europe.’ This UK Play For Today version was directed by Alan Bridges, whilst an American version was put out on CBS, directed by Alex Segal
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-10-29
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Siege of the Saxons
Overview: King Arthur learns one of his knights is plotting to take over and marry his daughter. After the King's death, the Knight wishing to marry the princess is ordered by the great wizard Merlin to remove the sword from the scabbard and prove his right to the throne.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-07-01
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Sword of Lancelot
Overview: Lancelot is King Arthur's most valued Knight of the Round Table and a paragon of courage and virtue. Things change, however, when he falls in love with Queen Guinevere.
Genres: Action Adventure Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-06-02
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Squaring the Circle
Overview: An account of how Lech Walesa and the "Solidarity" trade union confronted the might of Communist dictatorship in Poland.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-05-23
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Said the Preacher
Overview: "I like preaching... Only two things in my life have ever excited me as much: playing football and making love." But his congregation feel he's gone too far this time...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-05-06
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The Open Door
Overview: Colonel Mortimer returns to his family after a long spell in India to find his young son in bed ill, and tormented by a wailing voice... but is it in the boy's imagination or not?
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-02-19
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Conscience Bay
Overview: Melodrama of religion and sex in a village on the coast of Nova Scotia.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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Dead Cert
Overview: As a surprise, two horse owners decide to ride their animals themselves in a steeplechase. But Bill Davidson's horse "Admiral" behaves weirdly, and falls hard after an obstacle. Bill dies from his injuries. His friend Alan York suspects the animal was doped by unscrupulous bookies and starts to investigate. He doesn't know how serious his opponents are, and that he's in danger to suffer the exact same fate as his friend.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-05-01
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The 'Maggie'
Overview: The poor, elderly—and the wily, when it comes to parting those who can afford it from their money—Scottish skipper of a broken-down old 'puffer' boat tricks an American tycoon into paying him to transport his personal cargo. When the tycoon learns of the trick, he attempts to track down the boat and remove his possessions.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-02-25
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Overview: In Victorian England, handsome Dorian Gray makes a Faustian deal that his portrait painted by Basil Hallward (Jeremy Brett) will age while he remains young. But his vain bargain eventually leads to murder and destroys Gray's life. This 1976 installment of the BBC's long-running "Play of the Month" television series co-stars Gwen Ffrangcon Davies, Judi Bowker and John Gielgud as Lord Henry Wotton.
Genres: Horror Drama Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-09-19
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The Charge of the Light Brigade
Overview: During the Crimean War between Britain and Russia in the 1850s, a British cavalry division, led by the overbearing Lord Cardigan, engages in an infamously reckless strategic debacle against a Russian artillery battery.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-04-10
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Memoirs of a Survivor
Overview: Based on the acclaimed novel by Doris Lessing, this dystopian science fiction tale concerns a woman struggling to make her way in a post-apocalyptic society. D (Julie Christie) is living in a city that's at the point of collapse following a catastrophic nuclear war; lawlessness and violence rule the day, and gangs of brutal youth roam the streets. With the help of her teenage companion Emily (Leonie Mellinger), D tries to make her way, and in order to cope, she often escapes into a fantasy world in which she lives in genteel Victorian surroundings in the 19th century.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-09-01
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The Eyes of Annie Jones
Overview: Murder unfolds around a young girl who sleepwalks and talks while she does so.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-05-13
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The Passing Stranger
Overview: The British Passing Stranger stars Hollywood actor Lee Patterson as a deserting American GI. He drifts about until he falls in with a gang of gunrunners. He wants to quit, but can't until he makes enough money to support himself and his love Diane Cilento. Just before this is possible, Cilento's ex-boyfriend blows the whistle on the crooks. Just long enough not to wear out its welcome, The Passing Stranger is a passing good little film noir.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-11-30
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The Chain
Overview: Comedy featuring interweaving stories of seven households caught up in a property chain on moving day, each one dependent on the other.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Train of Events
Overview: A train disaster is told in four short stories to give character studies of the people involved, how it will affect them and how they deal with it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-01-18
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The Biko Inquest
Overview: Based on the official transcripts of the investigation that followed after the very suspicious notorious death in prison of one of the most important leading men of the South African anti-apartheid movement, Steven Biko.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-11-01
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They Can't Hang Me
Overview: A murderer hopes to escape his death sentence by identifying the leaders of a spy ring.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-10-01
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Carrington V.C.
Overview: Major Charles Carrington (David Niven) is arrested for taking £125 from the base safe. He also faces two other charges that could finish his distinguished service career. He decides to act in his own defence at his court martial hearing, his argument being that he is owed a lot of money from the army for his various postings that have cost him out of his own pocket. To further complicate the proceedings, Carrington alleges he told his superior, the very disliked Colonel Henniker, that he was taking the money from the safe. A man's career, his marriage, and quite a few reputations all hang in the balance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-12-09
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On the Black Hill
Overview: The story covers eighty years in the lives of a pair of Welsh identical twins with an unusual bond, as they go through war, love affairs, and land disputes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-12
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Tom Jones
Overview: Tom loves Sophie and Sophie loves Tom. But Tom and Sophie are of differering classes. Can they find a way through the mayhem to be true to love?
Genres: Comedy Adventure History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-08-24
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When We Are Married
Overview: Three long-married couples in northern England discover that their marriages are in fact invalid, causing much re-evaluation and chaos. This was the fourth television film version made by the BBC of this comedy by J. B. Priestley. It featured several actors repeating their rôles from the earlier 1951 version including Frank Pettingell, Helena Pickard and Eileen Beldon.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-12-25
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Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow
Overview: English vicar Dr. Syn becomes a scarecrow on horseback by night to thwart King George III's taxmen.
Genres: Adventure Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-12-06
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Lease of Life
Overview: The parson of a small rural community knows he is dying and this makes him reconsider his life so far and what he can still do to help the community.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-10-18
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Newsworthy - The Girl Who Saw a Tiger
Overview: Quiet Devonshire school girl Joanna's claim that she saw a tiger in Barrow Woods soon takes hold, in her home, at school and in the national press.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-11-18
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Game for Three Losers
Overview: A politician is set up by his secretary and blackmailed by her brother.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-04-01
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