Leslie Phillips
Leslie Samuel Phillips CBE (20 April 1924 – 7 November 2022) was an English actor, director, producer and author. He achieved prominence in the 1950s, playing smooth, upper-class comic roles utilising his "Ding dong" and "Hello" catchphrases. He appeared in the Carry On and Doctor in the House film series as well as the long-running BBC radio comedy series The Navy Lark. In his later career, Phillips took on dramatic parts including a BAFTA-nominated role alongside Peter O'Toole in Venus (2006). He provided the voice of the Sorting Hat in several of the Harry Potter films.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 9.188 |
| Birthday | 1924-04-20 |
| Place of Birth | Tottenham, London, England, UK |
| Also Known As | Lesley Phillips, Leslie Samuel Phillips, |
1985
Out of Africa
7.17/1367
Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved to Africa to build a new life for herself. The film...
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Out of Africa
2001
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
7.908/27519
Harry Potter has lived under the stairs at his aunt and uncle's house his whole life. But on his 11th birthday, he learns he's a powerful wizard—with...
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
2002
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
7.716/22014
Cars fly, trees fight back, and a mysterious house-elf comes to warn Harry Potter at the start of his second year at Hogwarts. Adventure and danger aw...
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2000
Saving Grace
6.531/413
Unexpectedly widowed, prim and proper housewife Grace Trevethyn finds herself in dire financial straits when she inherits massive debts her late husba...
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Saving Grace
2001
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
5.896/6045
Orphaned heiress, English aristocrat and intrepid archaeologist, Lara Croft, embarks on a dangerous quest to retrieve the two halves of an ancient art...
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Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
1990
Mountains of the Moon
6.4/71
The story of Captain Richard Francis Burton's and Lt. John Hanning Speke's expedition to find the source of the Nile river in the name of Queen Victor...
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Mountains of the Moon
1991
King Ralph
5.353/292
As the only relative in line to ascend the Royal throne, a down-on-his-luck American slob must learn the ways of the English.
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King Ralph
1997
The Jackal
6.381/1873
Hired by a powerful member of the Russian mafia to avenge an FBI sting that left his brother dead, a psychopathic hitman known only as The Jackal prov...
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The Jackal
1960
Carry On Constable
6.4/53
With a flu epidemic running rife, three new bumbling recruits are assigned to Inspector Mills police station. With help from Special Constable Gorse,...
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Carry On Constable
1959
Carry On Teacher
6.1/49
When a well-loved headmaster decides to retire, his scheming pupils have other ideas. The cunning boys unleash a campaign of practical jokes, armed wi...
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Carry On Teacher
1989
Scandal
5.9/90
An English bon-vivant osteopath is enchanted with a young exotic dancer and invites her to live with him. He serves as friend and mentor, and through...
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Scandal
2011
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
8.1/20583
Harry, Ron and Hermione continue their quest to vanquish the evil Voldemort once and for all. Just as things begin to look hopeless for the young wiza...
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2006
Venus
6.607/145
Maurice is an aging veteran actor who becomes taken with Jessie, the grandniece of his closest friend. When Maurice tries to soften the petulant and p...
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Venus
1957
The Smallest Show on Earth
6.6/30
Jean and Bill are a married couple trying to scrape a living. Out of the blue they receive a telegram informing them Bill's long-lost uncle has died a...
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The Smallest Show on Earth
1956
The Gamma People
5.1/19
An American reporter smells a story when he is stranded in an Iron Curtain country where the local dictator is using gamma rays to transform children...
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The Gamma People
1957
Les Girls
6.4/50
After writing a tell-all book about her days in the dance troupe "Barry Nichols and Les Girls", Sybil Wren is sued for libeling her fellow dancer Ange...
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Les Girls
1962
The Fast Lady
5.6/16
A Scottish civil servant must learn how to drive a Bentley to impress his girlfriend's tycoon father.
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The Fast Lady
1957
Just My Luck
6/10
Norman works in a jewellers workshop and fantasises (in the nicest way) about meeting the window dresser across the road from his workshop. He wants t...
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Just My Luck
1993
Royal Celebration
6/1
A bittersweet drama about a street party held in a suburban London square to mark the 1981 Royal Wedding. After two years of the Thatcher administrati...
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Royal Celebration
1961
Raising the Wind
6.6/8
'Carry On' director Gerald Thomas helms this comedy caper featuring early appearances by James Robertson Justice, Sid James, Leslie Phillips, Kenneth...
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Raising the Wind
1959
Ferdinand I King of Naples
6.8/22
The story of "King Lazzarone" Ferdinand I of Bourbon whose pastime was to neglect the government and disguise himself as a poor man and turn to the in...
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Ferdinand I King of Naples
1960
Doctor in Love
5.5/12
Doctors Burke and Hare leave the confines of St Swithins for the world of general practice, stopping off on the way as patients at the Foulness Anti-c...
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Doctor in Love
1966
Doctor in Clover
6/12
Doctor in Clover is another 'Doctor' movie, but this time Leslie Phillips is the main doctor in the story, looking for love and romance from the hospi...
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Doctor in Clover
1977
That's Carry On!
5.8/21
Celebrating twenty years of classic Carry On films, two of the films’ best-loved stars, Kenneth Williams and Barbara Windsor return to Pinewood film s...
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That's Carry On!
1959
Please Turn Over
5.8/14
The orderly suburban life of a 1950's English town is turned on its head when the teenaged daughter of one of the residents writes a steamy bestseller...
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Please Turn Over
Hotel Caledonia
0/0
Follows the journey of inconsequential loser, Norman Tickle, his best friend, and a bunch of backpackers to work the summer season at an isolated Scot...
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Hotel Caledonia
1992
Carry On Columbus
3.8/40
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...
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Carry On Columbus
1976
Spanish Fly
5.3/8
British sex comedy. Sir Percy de Courcy accidentally turns some poor tasting wine into an aphrodisiac when his old school chum, Mike Scott arrives wit...
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Spanish Fly
1960
No Kidding
6/7
A young couple, David and Catherine Robinson, has to turn their large country house into a money-making proposition. Their solution is to invite the k...
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No Kidding
1960
Watch Your Stern
5.7/10
When the details of a secret torpedo are destroyed by an incompetent seaman, the crew of the ship rally round, when the Admiral needs the plans to sho...
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Watch Your Stern
1996
Das Karussell des Todes
5/1
Lady Osborne's gardener becomes the victim of a burglar when he catches him in the Lady's house. Soon more mysterious murders occur and Inspectors Hig...
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Das Karussell des Todes
1996
Der Blinde
4/1
An encounter with a blind man ends unexpectedly for Susan Howard. The supposedly helpless man stuns and kidnaps her. The case is handed over by the Ho...
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Der Blinde
2011
Late Bloomers
5.2/19
Late Bloomers stars Isabella Rossellini and William Hurt as a married couple pulled apart by the threat of old age. Each reacts in a different way: Hu...
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Late Bloomers
1953
The Limping Man
5.2/17
An American veteran returns to England after WWII to learn that his London lover has become involved with a dangerous spy ring and their search for a...
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The Limping Man
1961
Very Important Person
5.5/10
Comedy set in World War Two, starring James Robertson-Justice and Leslie Phillips. Sir Ernest Pease (Robertson-Justice) is a self-important scientist...
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Very Important Person
1994
Bermuda Grace
0/0
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Bermuda Grace
1950
The Woman with No Name
6/1
This is a British drama film from 1950 about a young woman in London in WW2 with amnesia.
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The Woman with No Name
1970
Some Will, Some Won't
6/3
Four people go to great lengths to obtain the fortune left in a will by a very wealthy practical joker.
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Some Will, Some Won't
1958
The Big Money
6.4/5
Petty thief Willie Frith steals a suitcase full of bank notes, only to find out that they have been given all the same serial number. But this is only...
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The Big Money
1961
A Weekend with Lulu
5.4/8
Fred, Tim and Deirdre plan a fun weekend break on the coast. What they didn't make allowances for was the company of Deirdre's mother who insists on c...
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A Weekend with Lulu
1996
August
4/12
Set in 1890s North Wales over a long, hot August weekend, the Victorian calm of a household is suddenly upset with the arrival of a London couple who...
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August
1962
In the Doghouse
6.9/5
After 10 years of failure a bumbling vet finally graduates and takes on his own practice.
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In the Doghouse
1955
Value for Money
6.6/7
A wealthy young man from Yorkshire visits a London nightclub and meets a performer. She decides to take him for every penny he is worth, and he decide...
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Value for Money
1967
Maroc 7
5/10
The lady of a top fashion magazine doubles as a jewel thief and becomes involved in Moroccan intrigue.
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Maroc 7
1962
Crooks Anonymous
6.3/21
A former burglar trying to go straight joins a rehabilitation scheme using much the same methods as AA. Through the process, he takes work as a depart...
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Crooks Anonymous
1957
Brothers in Law
7.1/7
Roger Thursby is an overly keen, newly-qualified barrister who rubs his fellow barristers up the wrong way. When he is thrown in at the deep-end, with...
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Brothers in Law
1964
Father Came Too!
5.955/11
When Dexter Munro and his new wife Juliet get married, they decide to escape Juliet's meddling father by buying a rundown cottage and doing it up them...
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Father Came Too!
1973
Not Now Darling
6.2/3
A married British furrier gives a mobster's mistress a cheap mink coat.
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Not Now Darling
1976
Not Now, Comrade
5.3/8
Not Now, Comrade tells the story of Rudi, a Russian ballet star who defects to the West, and the chaos that befalls those who try to help him... not l...
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Not Now, Comrade
1959
The Night We Dropped a Clanger
5.9/6
The movie takes place during WWII. A dashing British RAF Officer is earmarked for a secret mission behind enemy lines in occupied France, but wishing...
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The Night We Dropped a Clanger
1991
The Trials of Oz
6/4
Dramatization of the famous 1971 trial in which the editors of the British underground magazine "Oz" were charged with obscenity.
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The Trials of Oz
1971
The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins
5.1/19
The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins is a 1971 British comedy film directed and produced by Graham Stark. Its title is a conflation of The Magnificent Se...
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The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins
1998
What's a Carry On?
7.2/4
Documentary commemorating the 40th anniversary of the 'Carry On' comedy film series. Archive clips and out-takes are mixed with interviews with the ca...
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What's a Carry On?
2002
Thunderpants
3.5/80
An 11-year-old boy's amazing ability to break wind leads him first to fame and then to death row, before it helps him to fulfill his ambition of becom...
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Thunderpants
1987
Empire of the Sun
7.519/1905
Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured w...
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Empire of the Sun
1970
Doctor in Trouble
5.1/5
Dr. Burke is in love with Ophelia but doesn't have time to propose to her as she leaves for a cruise to the Mediterranean. Also on board the cruise sh...
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Doctor in Trouble
2012
After Death
4.1/4
Following the sudden death of their last surviving parent - their Dad, two brothers and two sisters return to the family home after many years to face...
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After Death
1959
Carry On Nurse
6.2/54
In Haven Hospital, a certain men's ward is causing more havoc than the whole hospital altogether. The formidable Matron's debut gives everyone a chill...
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Carry On Nurse
1960
Inn for Trouble
6.5/6
Peggy Mount and David Kossoff star as Ada and Alf Larkin in this big screen version of the hugely popular 1950s TV comedy. Alf Larkin has finally made...
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Inn for Trouble
1959
The Navy Lark
6.8/5
An Inshore Minesweeping Unit has been forgotten by the Navy after World War II on the peaceful island of Boonsley and they have adapted to their circu...
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The Navy Lark
1962
The Longest Day
7.576/930
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the d...
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The Longest Day
1965
You Must Be Joking
5.625/8
A motley group of soldiers are set loose on swinging England in an initiative test to collect a selection of esoteric items
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You Must Be Joking
1990
Oxford
0/0
When American comic actor Steve 'Zoo Zoo Zoo Off Come My Pants' Wild arrives in Oxford to make a comedy film, his girlfriend Caroline goes behind his...
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Oxford
1952
The Sound Barrier
6.5/52
Fictionalized story of British aerospace engineers solving the problem of supersonic flight.
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The Sound Barrier
2005
The Comic Strip - A Retrospective
6/1
A look back at the comedy series The Comic Strip Presents
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The Comic Strip - A Retrospective
2001
Sword of Honour
6.1/9
Guy Crouchback joins the war effort during World War 2, an idealistic quest to join the forces of good in the fight against evil. But his efforts is n...
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Sword of Honour
2000
Cinderella
6.1/23
Zezolla and her family live mid 20th century, where fashion is practically everything. As her father is won over by a selfish woman named Claudette, C...
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Cinderella
1996
Die Katze von Kensington
4/1
Whenever a criminal is killed in London, a black Jaguar is nearby, with a white cat always sitting in the passenger seat. Inspector Higgins and Inspec...
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Die Katze von Kensington
1939
The Mikado
6.7/28
In a small Japanese town, Ko-Ko is appointed to the unenviable position of executioner. Knowing he must successfully perform before the appearance of...
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The Mikado
1939
The Four Feathers
6.967/92
A disgraced officer risks his life to help his childhood friends in battle.
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The Four Feathers
1953
The Fake
5.5/10
Someone is stealing priceless paintings from the great museums of the world and replacing them with nearly flawless forgeries. Leonardo da Vinci's "Ma...
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The Fake
1997
Caught in the Act
0/0
Lucinda goes on a trip away with her two friends Katherine and Amanda and convinces them to join her on form a variety act in order to impress her chi...
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Caught in the Act
1938
The Citadel
6.3/27
Andrew Manson, a young, idealistic, newly qualified Scottish doctor arrives in Wales takes his first job in a mining town, and begins to wonder at the...
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The Citadel
2004
Churchill: The Hollywood Years
5.2/34
A group of American executives making a film about World War II decide that since their lead is rather unglamorous, they will draft in an American G.I...
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Churchill: The Hollywood Years
2003
Collusion
5/1
Jack Littlemore's in art security, but he's already in enough trouble – then an old friend comes out of his past and threatens to finish him off compl...
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Collusion
1990
Who Bombed Birmingham?
7/1
Docudrama film exploring the efforts of World in Action researchers Ian MacBride and Chris Mullin in proving that the "Birmingham Six" only admitted t...
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Who Bombed Birmingham?
1965
The Gong Game
0/0
Once, long ago, Clive Breeze was a hero whose bravery won him a medal. Now, he's a middle-aged failure who's in big, big trouble.
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The Gong Game
1959
The Angry Hills
4.5/17
In 1941 Greece, on the eve of German occupation, cynical American foreign correspondent Michael Morrison arrives in Athens, intending to depart for Lo...
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The Angry Hills
1940
The Proud Valley
6.2/16
In a Welsh coal mining valley, a young man with a beautiful singing voice is called upon to make the ultimate sacrifice when a pit disaster threatens.
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The Proud Valley
1940
The Thief of Bagdad
7.096/267
When Prince Ahmad is blinded and cast out of Bagdad by the nefarious Jaffar, he joins forces with the scrappy thief Abu to win back his royal place, a...
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The Thief of Bagdad
1994
Two Golden Balls
3/1
A repressed anti-porn campaigner meets a glamorous American porn actress who changes her outlook on life.
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Two Golden Balls
1957
High Flight
5.8/4
The Commanding Officer of an RAF Training School must deal with a difficult cadet, but the cadet reminds the C.O. of himself when young.
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High Flight
1997
Agatha Christie's The Pale Horse
5.6/11
Writer Mark Easterbrook has a vested interest in solving the murder of a priest. That's because Mark himself is under suspicion. But to save his reput...
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Agatha Christie's The Pale Horse
2009
Is Anybody There?
6.2/68
A young boy who lives in an old folks' home strikes up a friendship with a retired magician.
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Is Anybody There?
1951
Pool of London
6.4/31
Jewel thieves, murder, and a manhunt swirl around a sailor off a cargo ship in post-war London.
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Pool of London
1938
Lassie from Lancashire
6/1
Struggling young actress Jenny (Marjorie Browne) joins her dad (Mark Daly) when he moves into Aunt Hetty's (Elsie Wagstaff) boarding house. Aunt Hetty...
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Lassie from Lancashire
1959
The Man Who Liked Funerals
0/0
A man wants to help a youth club that is in danger of closure. He decides to resort to blackmailing the relatives of the recently deceased, threatenin...
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The Man Who Liked Funerals
2009
Britain's Ugliest Models
0/0
This exclusive look into the leaders in alternative modeling allows you to explore the weird and wonderful characters that suggest you don't have to b...
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Britain's Ugliest Models
2004
Millions
6.401/375
Two boys, still grieving the death of their mother, find themselves the unwitting benefactors of a bag of bank robbery loot in the week before the Uni...
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Millions
1959
This Other Eden
0/0
A small town plans to erect a monument in memory of an IRA rebel killed during the 1920s. The son of the English Colonel who killed the rebel objects...
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This Other Eden
1996
The Canterville Ghost
6/56
When a teenaged girl moves to England, with her brothers and parents into the ancient Canterville Hall, she's not at all happy. Especially as there's...
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The Canterville Ghost
2005
Colour Me Kubrick
5.686/78
The true story of a man who posed as director Stanley Kubrick during the production of Kubrick's last film, Eyes Wide Shut, despite knowing very littl...
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Colour Me Kubrick
1990
Life After Life
0/0
A 70 year old man gets shunned into a retirement home.
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Life After Life
1992
Thacker
0/0
A Gothic comedy, featuring a distinguished cast, and starring Leslie Phillips and Margaret Tyzack. Retired colonial army officer George Thacker has h...
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Thacker
1973
Don't Just Lie There, Say Something!
5.3/3
Based on the hit play. A British Government Minister puts forward a bill to battle filth in the UK but that doesn't stop him having an affair with bot...
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Don't Just Lie There, Say Something!
1949
Train of Events
6.2/10
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.
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Train of Events
2013
Hello: A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips
7.5/2
A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips takes a look at the life of Leslie Phillips; the legendary actor, writer and veritable British institution. Leslie's fra...
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Hello: A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips
1990
GLC: The Carnage Continues
0/0
The Greater London Council fight to save the capital against the wicked Ice Maiden.
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GLC: The Carnage Continues
1958
I Was Monty's Double
6.8/22
The incredible but true story of how an impersonator was recruited to impersonate General Montgomery to mislead the Germans about his intentions befor...
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I Was Monty's Double
1955
As Long as They're Happy
7.7/3
The suburban peace of the Bentley household is shattered when John Bentley is informed by his wife Stella that their two married daughters, Pat and Co...
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As Long as They're Happy
2000
Aladdin: The ITV Pantomime
9/1
A televised pantomime of Aladdin with characters played by well-known celebrities.
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Aladdin: The ITV Pantomime
1993
The Changeling
0/0
Just days before her wedding, Beatrice-Joanna has a chance encounter with Alsemero, and realizes that she has met her one true love. To marry the man...
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The Changeling
1953
Time Bomb
5.2/19
When a saboteur places an explosive device on a train full of sea mines, the authorities call for bomb expert Peter Lyncort to diffuse the situation,...
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Time Bomb
1951
The Galloping Major
6/8
A syndicate is set up to buy a racehorse, but they end up buying the wrong one by mistake. Unfortunately the horse is useless on the flat, so they try...
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The Galloping Major
1948
Anna Karenina
6/55
Stefan and Dolly Oblonsky have had a spat and Stefan has asked his sister, Anna Karenina, to come down to Moscow to help mend the rift. Anna's compani...
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