Robert Stephens

Robert Stephens

Sir Robert Stephens  (14 July 1931 – 12 November 1995) was a leading English actor in the early years of England's Royal National Theatre. He was one of the most respected actors of his generation and was at one time regarded as the natural successor to Laurence Olivier. While very acting on stage his whole life, he also participated in more than 100 theatrical films and TV series episodes.  He was married to actress Maggie Smith between 1967 and 1974. They had two children together, who both have become actors: Toby Stephens and Chris Larkin.  Following years of ill health, he died on 12 November 1995 at the age of 64 due to complications during surgery, eleven months after having been knighted.  Description above partly from the Wikipedia article Robert Stephens, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

  • Title: Robert Stephens
  • Popularity: 9.322
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1931-07-14
  • Place of Birth: Bristol, England, UK
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Robert Stephens Movies

  • 1969
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    The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

    The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

    6.9 1969 HD

    A headstrong young teacher in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable 12-year-old charges with...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Maggie Smith

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  • 1972
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    Travels with My Aunt

    Travels with My Aunt

    5.7 1972 HD

    At his mother's funeral, stuffy bank clerk Henry Pulling meets his Aunt Augusta, an elderly eccentric with more-than-shady dealings who pulls him...

    Genre: Adventure

    Cast: Maggie Smith

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  • 1970
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    The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes

    The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes

    6.809 1970 HD

    Holmes and Dr. Watson take on the case of a beautiful woman whose husband has vanished. The investigation proves strange indeed, involving six...

    Genre: Mystery

    Cast: Robert Stephens

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  • 1968
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    Romeo and Juliet

    Romeo and Juliet

    7.373 1968 HD

    Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet fall in love against the wishes of their feuding families. Driven by their passion, the young lovers defy their...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Leonard Whiting

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  • 1961
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    A Taste of Honey

    A Taste of Honey

    6.941 1961 HD

    Jo is a neglected 16-year-old girl whose promiscuous mother marries a dandy. Jo gets pregnant after a tryst with a black cook, who leaves her over...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Rita Tushingham

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  • 1993
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    Searching for Bobby Fischer

    Searching for Bobby Fischer

    7.105 1993 HD

    A seven-year-old chess prodigy refuses to harden himself in order to become a champion like the famous but unlikable Bobby Fischer.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Max Pomeranc

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  • 1966
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    Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment

    Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment

    6.3 1966 HD

    Morgan, an aggressive and self-admitted dreamer, a fantasist who uses his flights of fancy as refuge from external reality, where his unconventional...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: David Warner

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  • 1972
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    The Asphyx

    The Asphyx

    6 1972 HD

    Hugo is a brilliant turn-of-the-century scientist, loved and respected by his family and friends, admired by his colleagues. But he is a man quickly...

    Genre: Fantasy

    Cast: Robert Powell

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  • 1977
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    At Night All Cats Are Crazy

    At Night All Cats Are Crazy

    5.5 1977 HD

    Playwright Charles Watson entertains his niece Lily by telling her about the adventures of Philibert.Both these people have something to do with...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Gérard Depardieu

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  • 1977
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    The Duellists

    The Duellists

    7.279 1977 HD

    In 1800, as Napoleon Bonaparte rises to power in France, a rivalry erupts between Armand and Gabriel, two lieutenants in the French Army, over a...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Keith Carradine

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  • 1963
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    The Small World of Sammy Lee

    The Small World of Sammy Lee

    6.1 1963 HD

    The compère of a seedy strip club struggles to keep one step ahead of the bookies to whom he owes money.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Anthony Newley

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  • 1962
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    Lunch Hour

    Lunch Hour

    6.8 1962 HD

    A young female designer is on the brink of an affair with a married male executive at the company where she works. The film tells the story of their...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Shirley Anne Field

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  • 1961
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    Pirates of Tortuga

    Pirates of Tortuga

    6.6 1961 HD

    After a lengthy voyage, Capt. Bart docks his ship in a London harbor and is given a new mission by British Admiralty: capture the notorious Henry...

    Genre: Action

    Cast: Ken Scott

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  • 1991
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    30 Door Key

    30 Door Key

    5.6 1991 HD

    A young writer in 1939 Warsaw faces the conflict of acting his age or relapsing into childhood during the brink of World War II. Based on the famous...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Crispin Glover

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  • 1987
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    High Season

    High Season

    5.6 1987 HD

    On the isle of Rhodes, Katherine, an expatriate English photographer, lives with her daughter. A young local wants to encourage tourism, so he...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Jacqueline Bisset

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  • 1990
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    Lorna Doone

    Lorna Doone

    6 1990 HD

    A feisty 17th-century Scotswoman falls in love with a despised landowner, to the dismay of her father.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Polly Walker

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  • 1962
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    The Inspector

    The Inspector

    6.7 1962 HD

    At the end of WW2, a compassionate Dutch policeman helps smuggle a Jewish woman into British Palestine.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Stephen Boyd

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  • 1981
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    The Games of Countess Dolingen

    The Games of Countess Dolingen

    3 1981 HD

    This complex and puzzling French drama walks the fine wavering line between the fictional and the very real as it tells the tale of a strangely...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Michael Lonsdale

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  • 1961
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    The Queen's Guards

    The Queen's Guards

    4.3 1961 HD

    Captains John Fellows and Henry Wynne-Walton finish their Army training at Sandhurst Military Academy and are sent to the Middle-East. John is to...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Daniel Massey

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  • 1979
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    One Fine Day

    One Fine Day

    1 1979 HD

    Alan Bennett's play about the mid-life crisis of an estate agent.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Dave Allen

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  • 1993
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    The Secret Rapture

    The Secret Rapture

    3.5 1993 HD

    Upon her father's death, a woman comes into emotional and psychological conflict with her young lover, her overbearing sister and her alcoholic...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Juliet Stevenson

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  • 1960
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    Circle of Deception

    Circle of Deception

    5.2 1960 HD

    Unbeknownst to him, a soldier is sent on a doomed mission because of the high likelihood of him divulging secrets if captured and tortured.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Bradford Dillman

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  • 1987
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    Empire of the Sun

    Empire of the Sun

    7.518 1987 HD

    Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Christian Bale

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  • 1983
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    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

    7.083 1983 HD

    A new teacher at a highly problematic comprehensive school feels that corporal punishment may just be inflaming the problems, and so begins to...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Jim Broadbent

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  • 1990
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    Wings of Fame

    Wings of Fame

    6.7 1990 HD

    A famous movie actor claims that he has written a book. As result, a real author, not a very well known writer, vengefully kills him but then dies as...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Peter O'Toole

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  • 1993
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    Century

    Century

    4.2 1993 HD

    Turn-of-the-century love story centered around a young doctor and the emergence of modern science.

    Genre: Romance

    Cast: Charles Dance

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  • 1992
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    Adam Bede

    Adam Bede

    7.3 1992 HD

    Rich and languorous, this adaptation of George Eliot's classic tale perfectly evokes rural England in the 18th Century. But beneath the tranquil...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Iain Glen

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  • 1967
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    Much Ado About Nothing

    Much Ado About Nothing

    5 1967 HD

    A film of the National Theatre's presentation of the Shakespeare play.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Maggie Smith

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  • 1988
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    The Fruit Machine

    The Fruit Machine

    5.8 1988 HD

    Eddie and Michael are two 16-year-old gay friends from Liverpool. Berated by his father for his camp behavior, Eddie runs away from his Liverpool...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Emile Charles

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  • 1967
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    Ten Days That Shook the World

    Ten Days That Shook the World

    6.2 1967 HD

    An epic presentation of the turbulent days leading to the Russian Revolution. Based on the classic work by John Reed, this important documentary...

    Genre:

    Cast: Orson Welles

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  • 1984
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    Puccini

    Puccini

    1 1984 HD

    In Torre del Lago, by Lake Massaciuccoli, Puccini is writing "The Girl of the Golden West" when his wife Elvira accuses him of a dalliance with their...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Robert Stephens

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  • 1969
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    Julius Caesar

    Julius Caesar

    8 1969 HD

    The play by William Shakespeare.

    Genre:

    Cast: Robert Stephens

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  • 1990
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    The Children

    The Children

    5.2 1990 HD

    Rose Sellars is a middle-aged woman who falls in love with a widower. However, his children believe that their father is too old to start a new...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Ben Kingsley

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  • 1991
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    Afraid of the Dark

    Afraid of the Dark

    5.4 1991 HD

    A little boy, obsessed with blindness and violence, slowly gets trapped in his own delusions.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Ben Keyworth

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  • 1995
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    England, My England

    England, My England

    5 1995 HD

    The story of Henry Purcell.

    Genre: History

    Cast: Michael Ball

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  • 1981
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    The Winter's Tale

    The Winter's Tale

    9.3 1981 HD

    The jealous King Leontes falsely accuse his wife Hermione of infidelity with his best friend, and she dies. Leontes exiles his newborn daughter...

    Genre: Romance

    Cast: Jeremy Kemp

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  • 1963
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    Cleopatra

    Cleopatra

    7.1 1963 HD

    Determined to hold on to the throne, Cleopatra seduces the Roman emperor Julius Caesar. When Caesar is murdered, she redirects her attentions to his...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Elizabeth Taylor

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  • 1983
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    Ill Fares the Land

    Ill Fares the Land

    1 1983 HD

    The story of the last two years the inhabitants of the islands of St Kilda (far off the west coast of Scotland) spent there, before being evacuated...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Robert Stephens

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  • 1991
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    The Pope Must Die

    The Pope Must Die

    4.9 1991 HD

    A less-than-qualified and far-from-perfect priest is mistakenly named the new pope. As the pontiff, he must deal with Vatican corruption, the Mob and...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Robbie Coltrane

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  • 1987
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    Comrades

    Comrades

    7 1987 HD

    The story of "The Tolpuddle Martyrs". A group of 19th century English farm labourers who formed one of the first trade unions and started a campaign...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Robin Soans

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  • 1978
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    The Shout

    The Shout

    5.932 1978 HD

    A traveller by the name of Crossley forces himself upon a musician and his wife in a lonely part of Devon, and uses the aboriginal magic he has...

    Genre: Thriller

    Cast: Alan Bates

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  • 1980
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    The Executioner

    The Executioner

    1 1980 HD

    Jan and Meg Citron are on holiday in Germany. Their car is stopped by the police. A simple traffic offence? But their seemingly innocent past is...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Paul Rogers

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  • 2018
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    Nothing Like a Dame

    Nothing Like a Dame

    6.813 2018 HD

    BBC Arena's documentary on the Dames of British Theatre and film featuring Maggie Smith, Elieen Atkins, Judi Dench and Joan Plowright on screen...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Maggie Smith

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  • 1990
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    The Bonfire of the Vanities

    The Bonfire of the Vanities

    5.546 1990 HD

    After his mistress runs over a black teen, a Wall Street hotshot sees his life unravel in the spotlight; A down-and-out reporter breaks the story and...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Tom Hanks

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  • 1988
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    Ada in the Jungle

    Ada in the Jungle

    2 1988 HD

    A dying man Lord Gordon asks his niece Ada to find his son in Africa whom he left many years ago.

    Genre: Action

    Cast: Richard Bohringer

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  • 1974
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    Luther

    Luther

    5.1 1974 HD

    One sixteenth-century clergyman's view breaks the Catholic Church apart.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Stacy Keach

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  • 1989
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    Henry V

    Henry V

    7.2 1989 HD

    Gritty adaption of William Shakespeare's play about the English King's bloody conquest of France.

    Genre: War

    Cast: Kenneth Branagh

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  • 1988
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    American Roulette

    American Roulette

    5.3 1988 HD

    Carlos Quintas, the democratically-elected president of an unnamed South American country, has been deposed by a military coup. He is in London, the...

    Genre: Action

    Cast: Andy García

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  • 1982
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    Anyone for Denis

    Anyone for Denis

    1 1982 HD

    Anyone for Denis? is a British video-taped television version of the stage play of the same name broadcast by the ITV network on 28 December 1982....

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: John Wells

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  • 1981
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    The Search for Alexander the Great

    The Search for Alexander the Great

    1 1981 HD

    Friends, contemporaries and even enemies of Alexander the Great gather in a tent to tell his tale through their eyes.

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: James Mason

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  • 1992
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    Chaplin

    Chaplin

    7.444 1992 HD

    An aged Charlie Chaplin narrates his life to his autobiography's editor, including his rise to wealth and comedic fame from poverty, his turbulent...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Robert Downey Jr.

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  • 1971
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    A Midsummer Night's Dream

    A Midsummer Night's Dream

    1 1971 HD

    Mistaken identity, unrequited love, and the supernatural are combined in Shakespeare's classic set in the woods of Greece on a moonlit night.

    Genre:

    Cast: Eileen Atkins

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  • 1968
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    Horizontal Hold

    Horizontal Hold

    1 1968 HD

    A woman writes a book about sex and marriage and it becomes a best seller.

    Genre:

    Cast: Amanda Barrie

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  • 1983
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    BBC Play of the Month

    BBC Play of the Month

    5 1983 HD

    Play of the Month is a BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays which were usually broadcast on...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast:

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  • 1984
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    The Box of Delights

    The Box of Delights

    8.25 1984 HD

    Patrick Troughton stars in this children's fantasy tale with dark undertones. When a young schoolboy is given a box for safekeeping by a mysterious...

    Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy

    Cast: Patrick Troughton

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  • 1993
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    Inspector Morse

    Inspector Morse

    7.796 1993 HD

    Inspector Morse is a detective drama based on Colin Dexter's series of Chief Inspector Morse novels. The series starred John Thaw as Chief Inspector...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: John Thaw

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  • 1973
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    The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

    The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

    7 1973 HD

    Adaptations of mystery stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's contemporary rivals in the genre.

    Genre: Crime

    Cast:

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  • 1987
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    Fortunes of War

    Fortunes of War

    6.4 1987 HD

    Fortunes of War is a 1987 BBC television adaptation of Olivia Manning's cycle of novels Fortunes of War. It stars Kenneth Branagh as Guy Pringle,...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Emma Thompson

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  • 1986
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    Hell's Bells

    Hell's Bells

    5 1986 HD

    Hell's Bells is a British television comedy series made by BBC Television starring Derek Nimmo as Dean "Selwyn" Makepeace which first broadcast in...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Derek Nimmo

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  • 1985
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    BBC Television Shakespeare

    BBC Television Shakespeare

    4 1985 HD

    The BBC Television Shakespeare is a series of British television adaptations of the plays of William Shakespeare, created by Cedric Messina and...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast:

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  • 1974
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    Vienna 1900

    Vienna 1900

    5 1974 HD

    Genre:

    Cast: Richard Morant

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  • 1982
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    Anyone for Denis?

    Anyone for Denis?

    1 1982 HD

    Anyone for Denis? is a British video-taped television version of the stage play of the same name broadcast by the ITV network on 28 December 1982....

    Genre:

    Cast: John Wells

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  • 1987
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    Lizzie's Pictures

    Lizzie's Pictures

    1 1987 HD

    Genre:

    Cast: Richard E. Grant

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  • 1994
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    Dandelion Dead

    Dandelion Dead

    8 1994 HD

    This is a dramatisation of the true story of Major Herbert Rowse Armstrong, a solicitor and magistrate's clerk who lived in the small Welsh town of...

    Genre:

    Cast: Peter Vaughan

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  • 1974
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    QB VII

    QB VII

    7.7 1974 HD

    A physician sues a novelist for publishing statements implicating the doctor in Nazi war crimes.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Ben Gazzara

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  • 1978
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    Holocaust

    Holocaust

    7.4 1978 HD

    Berlin, Germany, 1935. The day Karl Weiss, a Jewish painter, and Inga Helms, a Christian woman, marry, is the one in which both of them and the...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Tom Bell

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  • 2023
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    Tony Awards

    Tony Awards

    5 2023 HD

    The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The...

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  • 1982
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    The Year of the French

    The Year of the French

    1 1982 HD

    The Year of the French was a television serial, directed by Michael Garvey and based on the novel by Thomas Flanagan, which was first broadcast in...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Jean-Claude Drouot

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  • 1964
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    Channing

    Channing

    7 1964 HD

    Professor Joe Howe is a Korean War veteran who is hired to teach English at Channing College. The dean Fred Baker is his mentor as Howe is writing a...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast:

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  • 1983
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    BBC Play of the Month

    BBC Play of the Month

    5 1983 HD

    Play of the Month is a BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays which were usually broadcast on...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast:

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  • 1994
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    Minder

    Minder

    6.65 1994 HD

    This comedy drama series featured Terry McCann, a former boxer with a conviction for G.B.H., and Arthur Daley, a second-hand car dealer with an eye...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: George Cole

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  • 1981
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    Lady Killers

    Lady Killers

    5 1981 HD

    Compelling crime anthology looks at some of Britain's most notorious murder trials, in which both male and female defendants stood accused of the...

    Genre:

    Cast: Robert Morley

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  • 1986
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    Unnatural Causes

    Unnatural Causes

    5.5 1986 HD

    Series of seven psychological dramas concerning death by unnatural causes.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast:

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  • 1986
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    The Mysteries

    The Mysteries

    1 1986 HD

    National Theatre Cottesloe production filmed for Channel 4

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Brenda Blethyn

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