Pippa Guard
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Biography: Pippa Guard is an actress best known for her TV and stage work. Her sole film credit was the lead role in An Unsuitable Job For a Woman, the 1981 adaptation of PD James' novel. Guard now works as a lecturer and drama programme leader at the University of Greenwich.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Birthday: October 13, 1952
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Gender: Female
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Gobble
Overview: As Christmas celebrations get under way, Britain is rocked by a deadly new food scare - "mad turkey disease".
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-02-15
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Roger Roger
Overview: Minicab boss Sam has his work cut out controlling a wayward bunch of drivers
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-08-26
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Another Flip for Dominick
Overview: Now a respected teacher of temporal observers, Dominick has not visited the past for several years. He is content with his lot, resigned to the idea that he will never again see Jane, the lover he left in 1980, or their son. Then his boss gives him a new mission: to find out what has become of one of Dominick's students, Pyrus Bonnington, who has gone missing in 1982.
Genres: Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-12-14
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The Flipside of Dominick Hide
Overview: Dominick Hide, a time traveller from the year 2130, is studying the London transport system of 1980. Time travellers are supposed to be observers, and are strictly forbidden to land their flying saucers. One time traveller who broke this rule accidentally killed a dog, changing history and causing many future people to disappear. Inspired by his Great Aunt Mavis, Dominick decides to find his great great grandfather. He begins to land in 1980, where his strange clothes and speech make him seem an eccentric oddball. His quest brings him into contact with beautiful boutique owner Jane, and they fall in love. As Dominick's visits become more frequent and more prolonged, he increasingly risks his indiscretion being discovered by his boss, Caleb Line, and every moment he spends in the past increases the danger that he will catastrophically change the future
Genres: Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-09
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To the Lighthouse
Overview: A faithful dramatization of Virginia Woolf's novel. A lecturer, his family, the spinster Aunt Lily, an old friend, and a student, Charles Tansley, spend a summer in an isolated house in Cornwall just before World War I. The stern Mr. Ramsay scolds everybody, while Mrs. Ramsay is the linchpin in keeping the family together. Aunt Lily paints, and the family talk about sailing to the lighthouse, but the trip is always postponed.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-03-22
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The Mill on the Floss
Overview: Adaptation of the George Eliot novel.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
Overview: After finding her boss, a private detective, has committed suicide and has left her his agency, Cordelia Gray is asked to investigate the suicide of the man's son. During the course of her investigation, Cordelia becomes obsessed with the young man's memory and his increasingly suspicious death.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-02-16
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Daisies in December
Overview: A seaside hotel for senior citizens is the setting for late-season love as costars Jean Simmons and Joss Ackland meet and make a match in this romantic human drama. Gerald's a stuffy ex-stockbroker who's been placed in the facility for his own best interest. Katherine's a warm and friendly resident with a soaring spirit and a zest for life. Their union is a transforming one, and also timely, as Katherine stands on the threshhold of a painful and very frightening battle with cancer. Poignant storytelling with a winning pair of costars.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-03
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Overview: Four Athenians run away to the forest only to have Puck the fairy make both of the boys fall in love with the same girl. The four run through the forest pursuing each other while Puck helps his master play a trick on the fairy queen. In the end, Puck reverses the magic, and the two couples reconcile and marry.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-12-13
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The Mallen Streak
Overview: The first part of the Mallen family saga. Thomas Mallen, the Squire of High Banks Hall, fathers many illegitimate sons, each of whom inherit a distinctive streak of white hair. Forced to sell the Hall, Thomas moves to humbler surroundings, taking with him his wards, Barbara and Constance, and their governess, Anna Brigmore. The young girls find romance with the Radlet brothers, one of whom, Donald, is acknowledged by Thomas as his bastard son.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-04-14
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The Tempest
Overview: Prospero, the true Duke of Milan is now living on an enchanted island with his daughter Miranda, the savage Caliban and Ariel, a spirit of the air. Raising a sorm to bring his brother - the usurper of his dukedom - along with his royal entourage. to the island. Prospero contrives his revenge.
Genres: Fantasy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-02-27
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All's Well That Ends Well
Overview: Helena loves Bertram, but he's of noble birth, while she's just a doctor's daughter. But Bertram is at the court of the King of France, who is ill, and Helena has a remedy that might cure him and win her the right to marry Bertram. But does Bertram want to marry her?
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-04
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The Old Devils
Overview: An adaptation of the novel by Kingsley Amis about a group of university friends reunited in retirement. Alun Weaver has found success as a celebrated London-based writer. After returning home to Wales with his alluring wife Rhiannon he reunites with old friends who chose to remain in the valleys. Long dormant romance are rekindled and rivalries resurrected in this turbulent story of ageing, friendship, lust, nostalgia and nationalism.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-03-16
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The Mallens
Overview: Adaptation of the Mallen series of novels by Catherine Cookson.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-06-10
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