Daniel Peacock
Also Known As: دنیل پیکاک
Biography: Daniel Peacock is an English actor, writer and director. He has worked with the team of The Comic Strip Presents... and appeared in films such as cult classics like Quadrophenia and blockbusters like Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. He is the son of actor Trevor Peacock, and his younger brother Harry is also an actor.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Hammersmith, London, England, UK
Birthday: October 02, 1958
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Gender: Male
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Party Party
Overview: It's New Year's Eve. Larry's parents are at the vicarage dance leaving Larry in charge of the house. Big mistake, because Larry's a party animal and tonight he's going to go wild - with a little help from his friends!
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques
Overview: Two students calling themselves Carlos and Miguel arrive in Spain dressed as gunslingers to live out their dream of being in a spaghetti Western. At a cafe in a remote town they meet two Australian girls who have picked up a scruffy hitch-hiker and a would-be rapist dressed as a matador.
Genres: Western Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-21
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I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle
Overview: When a motorbike gang kills an occultist, the evil spirit he was summoning inhabits a damaged bike. The bike is then bought and restored, but reveals its true nature when it tries to exact vengance on the gang, and anyone else who gets in its way.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-07-06
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A Landscape of Lies
Overview: An ex-soldier struggles to adjust after the Gulf War. But when his commanding officer is killed in a suspected mugging, he tries to find the truth.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-10-01
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Les Dogs
Overview: Les Dogs are the band playing in a large marquee to celebrate the wedding of Geoffrey and Angela. During the reception, the fathers of the groom and bride exchange insults and a gun battle ensues in which many guests - and Les Dogs - are casualties though the happy couple escape. Victor, who has wandered in on the scene, is asked to take wedding photographs and has a series of dreamlike fantasies all based around his infatuation with Angela.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-08-03
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Five Go Mad in Dorset
Overview: In the 1950s, four children, Anne, described as a 'proper little housewife', the rather butch George who has an unhealthy relationship with her dog Timmy and their brothers Dick and Julian, whose relationship seems to be more than fraternal, go on a cycling holiday in Dorset where their flair for detection - plus their snobbery and xenophobia - gets a whole string of suspicious characters arrested.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-11-02
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War
Overview: 1985:- England has been invaded by the Warsaw Pact countries and middle-class couple Hermine and Godfrey retreat to their rural hide-away but after witnessing a bunch of incompetent commandos kill each other, they get separated.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-03
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The Beat Generation
Overview: In the monochrome world of 1960, pretentious Alan, violent Kix and sex-mad Eleanor are part of a colony of beat poets, living a hedonistic, unreal existence in a large villa overlooking the sea. Dumped by his girlfriend Jeremy is anxious to be part of their circle until two girls from the outside world and a wild party open his eyes to what really matters.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-17
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Five Go Mad on Mescalin
Overview: On their way to stay with Mrs French at Hot Turkey Farm, the Famous Five hear on the radio their Uncle Quentin's escaped prison. Arriving at the farm they're appalled to meet the vulgar millionaire, Mr Budweiser, and his spoilt son, Willy. Julian and Dick are so incensed, they sleep outdoors where they spy 2 heavies being secretly villainous. The trail leads to Love Island, where they discover Uncle Quentin and his boyfriend Toby.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-11-02
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Gino: Full Story and Pics
Overview: A hoodlum is turned into a celebrity when he steals a cab and subsequent events are blown out of proportion by the media.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-28
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Five Go to Rehab
Overview: The Famous Five are back. Thirty years after the Comic Strip arrived on our screens with their famous Enid Blyton spoof - Five Go Mad in Dorset. These famous children's characters have again been brought back from the past to confront today's modern world. This time they are made to account for their racist and sexist views. But they seem blissfully unrepentant as they gather for a reunion on Dick's birthday in leafy Dorset - still a magical land of rolling hills, woods, ruined castles, and of course dodgy villains in big black cars.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-11-07
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The Strike
Overview: Paul, a former miner, writes a hard-hitting screenplay about his own experiences of the 1984 miners' strike. However, the Hollywood production company that gets hold of his script turns it into a ludicrously sensationalist and anachronistic action film, starring Al Pacino as Arthur Scargill, and Meryl Streep as his wife.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-02-20
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30 Years of Comic Strip
Overview: In true Peter Richardson fashion, "30 Years Of Comic Strip" defies the conventional norms of a retrospective documentary. It brings together some of the most prominent figures in UK comedy, reflecting on the show's impact and influence on the British comedy scene over the past three decades. The documentary unveils previously unseen footage and reconnects with characters from iconic episodes. The cast and crew of The Comic Strip share anecdotes about the making of the show, recounting experiences marked by a playful disregard for health and safety.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-11-03
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Carry On Columbus
Overview: Christopher Columbus believes he can find an alternative route to the far East and persuades the King and Queen of Spain to finance his expedition...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-10-02
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Eat the Rich
Overview: Alex is a disgruntled waiter at a snobby exclusive restaurant who falls on hard times. Forced to deal with the contempt and disgust of the upper class, Alex & cohorts attempt to go on a rampage. Meanwhile, General Karprov and Spider plot to involve the inept anarchists into their plans to derail the prime-minister-to-be's campaign.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-10-23
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Riding High
Overview: Riding High is a 1981 British drama film directed by Ross Cramer and starring Eddie Kidd, Irene Handl and Murray Salem. The screenplay concerns a bored young motorcycle messenger who begins training to take part in a major competition.
Genres: Action Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-05-01
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Gandhi
Overview: In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence. Faced with armed resistance from the British government, Gandhi adopts a policy of 'passive resistance', endeavouring to win freedom for his people without resorting to bloodshed.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-12-01
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Bloody Kids
Overview: Contemptuous of the fallible police force (Mike has already filched a police hat from an accident scene), two 11-year-old boys - the cold, manipulative Leo, and his weaker, more impressionable friend, Mike - arrange a staged knife fight outside a football stadium with the aid of a bag of stage blood and a real blade.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-22
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Doctor Who: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
Overview: The Doctor and Ace head for the Psychic Circus on the planet Segonax, where they meet a disparate group of performers and visitors, including a self-centred explorer named Captain Cook, his companion Mags and a biker known as Nord.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-14
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Jake's Journey
Overview: A normal teenager is transported to a Monty Pythonesque medieval fantasy land where an odd, adamant knight takes him on a quest.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
Overview: Nobleman crusader Robin of Locksley breaks out of a Jerusalem prison with the help of Moorish fellow prisoner Azeem and travels back home to England. But upon arrival he discovers his dead father in the ruins of his family estate, killed by the vicious sheriff of Nottingham, Robin and Azeem join forces with outlaws Little John and Will Scarlett to save the kingdom from the sheriff's villainy.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-06-14
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Porridge
Overview: Times are hard for habitual guest of Her Majesty Norman Stanley Fletcher. The new prison officer, Beale, makes MacKay look soft and what's more, an escape plan is hatching from the cell of prison godfather Grouty and Fletcher wants no part of it.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-08-12
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No Reasons
Overview: When Jodie goes missing, her parents are left behind to pick up the pieces. They frantically try every option to get her to come home, or for her kidnappers to release her. While they search the mortuaries looking for clues, a private investigator discovers a murky world and a terrible secret everyone wants to keep.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-08-19
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Long Distance Information
Overview: Play For Today written by and starring Neville Smith. Christian Harvey , a local radio DJ and ageing rocker, is an obsessive fan of Elvis and the news of Elvis's death is for him a personal tragedy as well as the end of an era.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-10-11
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Knights Electric
Overview: “Four punk lads making a sortie into an amusement park where they antagonise other customers and come upon a group of teenage girls. However, they are consistently thwarted by the apparition of four spectral youths (the 'Knights Electric') who ultimately squire the girls away. Told with a remarkable fluency and gusto.” BFI Newsletter, August 1981
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-02-16
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Quadrophenia
Overview: Based on the 1973 rock opera album of the same name by The Who, this is the story of 60s teenager Jimmy. At work he slaves in a dead-end job. While after, he shops for tailored suits and rides his scooter as part of the London Mod scene.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-09-14
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The Nutcracker
Overview: In 1920s Vienna, a young girl receives a magical doll on Christmas Eve.
Genres: Music Fantasy Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-11-24
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The Supergrass
Overview: While taking a holiday in the country with his mother, Dennis hits on a scheme to impress a girl so that she'll go away on a trip with him as his girlfriend. Although he fails to gain any interest from the girl, the police take a great interest in his story. From this point on, Dennis digs a deeper hole for himself at every turn
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-11-08
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Trail of the Pink Panther
Overview: The Pink Panther diamond is stolen once again from Lugash and the authorities call in Chief Inspector Clouseau from France. His plane disappears en-route. This time, famous French TV reporter Marie Jouvet sets out to solve the mystery and starts to interview everybody connected to Clouseau.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-12-03
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The Jewel of the Nile
Overview: Joan Wilder is thrust back into a world of murder, chases, foreign intrigue... and love. This time out she's duped by a duplicitous Arab dignitary who brings her to the Middle East, ostensibly to write a book about his life. Of course, he's up to no good, and Joan is just another pawn in his wicked game. But Jack Colton and his sidekick Ralph show up to help our intrepid heroine save the day.
Genres: Adventure Action Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-08-01
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Whoops Apocalypse
Overview: When a small British owned island in the Caribbean is invaded and the world's most dangerous terrorist kidnaps a member of the Royal family, the countdown to World War 3 begins. If anyone can prevent the oncoming apocalypse it's the American President, but her closest ally the British Prime Minister appears to have gone stark raving mad.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-05-06
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Billy's Christmas Angels
Overview: Billy wants to play in a rock band with his brother Dave. This Christmas, Billy 's Angels come down to earth to help Billy find Dave, and reality, through Faith, Hope and Charlie.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-23
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