Huggy Leaver
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Biography: Huggy Leaver (born Hugh Leaver), sometimes credited as Huggy Lever, is a British actor and former vocalist of The Plastix, an early UK Punk band. He subsequently became lead singer of the Hastings Mod Revival Band Teenbeats from 1979-1982. He has appeared in Trial & Retribution, Birds of a Feather, A Touch of Frost and Black Books. He also played Paul in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Mario in the 2000 film Going Off Big Time and appeared as a cab driver in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and the pawn shop owner in Fast & Furious 6. More recently, he played the recurrent role of Clint in EastEnders and Delivery Man 2 in Never Let Me Go. He has a love of motorcycles and has customized some in the streetfighter style, as created by designer/artist Andy Sparrow, in his strip Bloodrunners in the 1980s. One such streetfighter was featured in the 1995 movie Mad dogs and Englishmen and ridden by C. Thomas Howell's despatch rider character.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Hastings, Sussex, England
Birthday: June 18, 1957
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Gender: Male
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Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Overview: A card shark and his unwillingly-enlisted friends need to make a lot of cash quick after losing a sketchy poker match. To do this they decide to pull a heist on a small-time gang who happen to be operating out of the flat next door.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-08-28
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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Overview: To prevent a world war from breaking out, famous characters from Victorian literature band together to do battle against a cunning villain.
Genres: Fantasy Action Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-07-11
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Gangsters, Guns and Zombies
Overview: Q, Tony, Danny, and Steve think the police are their biggest problem after they pull off a robbery. But when the dead rise from the grave, they have to hide out with a woman and her grandmother in a fortified windmill.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-06-30
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Forgive and Forget
Overview: David O'Neil, a plasterer and mature student Theo have been best mates for fourteen years and are practically inseparable. However, their friendship has become strained as Theo is about to move in with his long-term girlfriend, photographer Hannah. A raging jealousy awakes in David and he starts scheming to break up the loving couple using Hannah's insecurities against them. When the couple eventually separate David is in a quandary about his next move and is forced to confront his long-hidden homosexuality and feelings towards Theo. Eventually, David decides to reveal his sexual orientation and deep love for Theo very publicly by arranging for them both to appear as guests on Judith Adams' talk-show, "forgive and forget", with tragic consequences for their friendship and David's family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-06-12
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Brothers in Trouble
Overview: Amir is an illegal Pakistani immigrant smuggled into England in the 1960's to work, to send money to his family and perhaps even bring them over with him. A skilled laborer, he is forced to do unskilled work like shoveling sheep dung and processing wool. He lives in a boarding house with nearly a dozen other men, under the supervision of Hussein Shah. He befriends a young student, Sakib, who dreams of being a writer. Their existence is punctuated by secret movies, a visiting prostitute, fear of detection and deportation, and the gangster-like smuggler who comes by for his take every week. The household is shaken up by the arrival of a white girl, Shah's girlfriend, and the sense of femininity and family she brings.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-08-23
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Somers Town
Overview: Two teenagers, both newcomers to London, forge an unlikely friendship over the course of a hot summer. Tomo (Thomas Turgoose) is a runaway from Nottingham; Marek (Piotr Jagiello) lives in the district of Somers Town, between King's Cross and Euston stations, where his dad is working on a new rail link.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-08-22
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Freebird
Overview: A Rock and Roll Road Movie Comedy set in Wales
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-02-01
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The Lost Mantle of Elijah
Overview: A LEGENDARY CLOAK. AN IMPOSSIBLE CHOICE. The Lost Mantle of Elijah - A Rollicking Fantasy Adventure Blast off on an epic quest for the legendary Mantle of Miracles in this exhilarating fantasy thriller! In a cursed world without fire, young Kai is entrusted with recovering the Lost Mantle of Elijah – a magical cloak rumoured to possess astounding powers. Dodging cutthroat pirates, warring tribes, and sinister sorcerers, Kai races to find the sacred relic before it falls into the wrong hands.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-12-12
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The Frontline
Overview: Upon his release from a mental hospital, James re-kindles his relationship with pirate DJ Marion, helping her kick her nasty heroin addiction. However, when Marion is found dead, James and Marion's father hatch a plan to trap and expose the 'protected' killer. A plan that leads to a tense and bloody showdown that will leave you shattered. Filmed in the Moss Side area of Manchester this gritty tale of futility pulls no punches in its graphic depiction of drug addiction, political corruption and society out of control.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Boston Kickout
Overview: School leaver Phil moves with his father from inner-city London to the satellite Hertfordshire New Town of Stevenage, where they are promised a brighter future...but all Phil finds there is a bleak, cultural wilderness; a world of unemployment, violence, alcoholism and drug abuse in 90s Britain
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-18
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The Marchioness Disaster
Overview: A factual reconstruction of the events leading up to, during and after the Marchioness was struck by the Bow Belle Dredger on the river Thames in August 1989, which killed over 50 people. The film was due to be broadcast by ITV in 2007 but complaints from some of the families of the victims led to it being withdrawn ahead of transmission. It has never been broadcast in the UK, but has been screened in France.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-11-01
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The Young Americans
Overview: Experienced New York Police Detective John Harris is sent to London to help a local task force investigate a series of gangster killings organized by a new player in town, an American. With the help of a young teen wronged by gangsters, Harris navigates London's seedy, drug-fuelled underworld in order to take down its new criminal empire.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-10-08
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Never Let Me Go
Overview: As children, Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy spend their childhood at an idyllic and secluded English boarding school. As they grow into adults, they must come to terms with the complexity and strength of their love for one another while also preparing for the haunting reality awaiting them.
Genres: Drama Romance Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-03-18
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Judge Dredd
Overview: In a dystopian future, Dredd, the most famous judge (a cop with instant field judiciary powers) is convicted for a crime he did not commit while his murderous counterpart escapes.
Genres: Science Fiction Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-06-30
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Going Off Big Time
Overview: After surviving prison, a man has to forge a career in the crime world
Genres: Comedy Thriller Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-21
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The Hard Case
Overview: A short film about a player and a gambler.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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