Dexter Fletcher
Dexter Fletcher (born 31 January 1966) is an English actor and director. He has appeared in Guy Ritchie's Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and the crime comedy Smoking Guns, as well as in television shows such as the comedy-drama Hotel Babylon, the HBO series Band of Brothers and, earlier in his career, the children's show Press Gang. He was also in the film Bugsy Malone. He had a short stint as a presenter on the third series of Channel 4's GamesMaster in 1993 and 1994.
Fletcher made his directorial debut with Wild Bill (2011), and also directed Sunshine on Leith (2013) and Eddie the Eagle (2015). He replaced Bryan Singer as director of Bohemian Rhapsody, a biopic about the band Queen, released in October 2018; due to DGA rules, he received executive producer credit. In 2019 he directed Rocketman, a film based on the life of Elton John.
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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 28.385 |
Birthday | 1966-01-31 |
Place of Birth | North London, England, UK |
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1998
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
8.117/6609
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...
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Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
1980
The Elephant Man
8/3497
A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revea...
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The Elephant Man
1984
The Bounty
6.7/551
The familiar story of Lieutenant Bligh, whose cruelty leads to a mutiny on his ship. This version follows both the efforts of Fletcher Christian to...
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The Bounty
2004
Layer Cake
6.9/2101
When a seemingly straight-forward drug deal goes awry, XXXX has to break his die-hard rules and turn up the heat, not only to outwit the old regime an...
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Layer Cake
1986
Caravaggio
6.2/142
A retelling of the life of the celebrated 17th-century Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous pai...
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Caravaggio
2009
Autumn
3.1/27
The virus came so fast no one had time to prepare. Before the day was over, entire towns were decimated, and large cities became monumental tombs. Lef...
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Autumn
2010
Kick-Ass
7.1/11652
Dave Lizewski is an unnoticed high school student and comic book fan who one day decides to become a super-hero, even though he has no powers, trainin...
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Kick-Ass
2005
Doom
5.148/2235
A team of space marines known as the Rapid Response Tactical Squad, led by Sarge, is sent to a science facility on Mars after somebody reports a secur...
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Doom
1997
The Man Who Knew Too Little
6.4/494
An American gets a ticket for an audience participation game in London, then gets involved in a case of mistaken identity. As an international plot un...
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The Man Who Knew Too Little
2006
Tristan & Isolde
6.671/786
An affair between the second in line to Britain's throne and the princess of the feuding Irish spells doom for the young lovers.
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Tristan & Isolde
1986
Gothic
5.706/163
Living on an estate on the shores of Lake Geneva, Lord Byron is visited by Percy and Mary Shelley. Together with Byron's lover Claire Clairmont, and a...
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Gothic
1985
Revolution
5.3/107
New York trapper Tom Dobb becomes an unwilling participant in the American Revolution after his son Ned is drafted into the Army by the villainous Ser...
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Revolution
2010
Baseline
4.9/9
The Baseline is the centre of the East London grime club scene and the queue regularly stretches around the block. Danny works on the door - breaking...
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Baseline
1989
The Rachel Papers
5.1/28
Poised to attend Oxford University, 19-year-old Charles Highway decides it's high time to have a romantic encounter with an older woman. With the help...
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The Rachel Papers
2003
The Deal
6.7/24
It is approaching an election in the UK when the leader of the Labour party, John Smith, suffers another in a line of heart attacks and dies. With the...
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The Deal
1999
Tube Tales
5.3/16
Nine short stories based on the true experiences of London Underground passengers: "Mr. Cool" (Amy Jenkins, dir.); "Horny" (Stephen Hopkins); "Grassho...
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Tube Tales
2010
Dead Cert
4.4/20
A gang of tough London gangsters get more than they bargained for when a group of businessmen make an offer to buy their club, the Inferno. They turn...
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Dead Cert
1999
Topsy-Turvy
6.614/145
After their production "Princess Ida" meets with less-than-stunning reviews, the relationship between Gilbert and Sullivan is strained to breaking. Th...
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Topsy-Turvy
2023
Ghosted
6.937/1822
Salt-of-the-earth Cole falls head over heels for enigmatic Sadie—but then makes the shocking discovery that she's a secret agent. Before they can deci...
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Ghosted
1991
Out of the Blue
3.5/2
Alan makes films in the warehouse studio where he lives, with the help of his friends Rudy and Liz. Even Rudy's girlfriend, Julie, finds herself caugh...
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Out of the Blue
2003
Stander
6.3/105
The life and career of Andre Stander, a South African police officer turned bank robber.
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Stander
2009
In Your Dreams
4.7/3
Albert Ross was the most ambitious little boy in the world until an 11 year old girl broke his heart. Now he's grown up to be an embittered dentist, h...
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In Your Dreams
2011
Jack Falls
4.6/26
Former undercover police officer Jack Adleth returns to London seeking those who tried to have him killed in Amsterdam.
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Jack Falls
1987
Lionheart
5.2/14
A young knight sets out to join King Richards crusaders. Along the way, he encounters The Black Prince who captures children and sells them as slaves...
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Lionheart
1989
Twisted Obsession
5.4/21
An American writer in Paris is hired to do a script for an edgy young director he can't stand. When he falls in love with the director's cold and mani...
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Twisted Obsession
2012
St George's Day
4.9/24
Infamous London gangster cousins, Micky Mannock and Ray Collishaw, are at the top of the food chain, when their world is turned upside down as they lo...
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St George's Day
1988
The Raggedy Rawney
5.9/7
During WWII a youth deserts his country's army after a combat experience, but not before wounding his commanding officer with a knife in order to esca...
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The Raggedy Rawney
1995
Aristophanes: The Gods Are Laughing
0/0
Specially commissioned by the British Film Institute and Channel 4, this pseudo-biography shows how Aristophanes became the father of political satire...
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Aristophanes: The Gods Are Laughing
1996
Dead London
0/0
An ironic and macabre tale of two men who have worked out a theory that allows them to predict violent deaths in the capital.
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Dead London
2002
Below
6.02/441
In the dark silence of the sea during World War II, the submarine USS Tiger Shark prowls on what should be a routine rescue mission. But for the shell...
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Below
1992
Dread Poets' Society
0/0
Benjamin Zephaniah, renowned Rastafarian poet/rapper is traveling by train from Birmingham to Cambridge to receive his Creative Arts Fellowship sharin...
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Dread Poets' Society
1980
The Long Good Friday
7.1/356
In the late 1970s, Cockney crime boss Harold Shand, a gangster trying to become a legitimate property mogul, has big plans to get the American Mafia t...
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The Long Good Friday
2007
Stardust
7.3/4072
In a countryside town bordering on a magical land, a young man makes a promise to his beloved that he'll retrieve a fallen star by venturing into the...
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Stardust
2023
The Kemps: All Gold
0/0
Spandau Ballet brothers Martin and Gary Kemp return to the BBC for a New Year comedy documentary special. Rhys Thomas OBE has been given unprecedented...
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The Kemps: All Gold
2015
The Coven
2.4/5
In Highgate London, five young teenagers hoping to witness Pagan activity, camp in historic Queen's Wood on Halloween but soon discover they are part...
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The Coven
2015
Age Of Kill
4.875/16
A black ops sniper is blackmailed by a psychotic international terrorist into killing 6 unrelated people in 6 hours... but there is more to the victim...
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Age Of Kill
2012
Cockneys vs Zombies
5.681/404
A group of Cockneys arm themselves to rescue their elderly relative and his retirement home friends who are trapped and fighting off a zombie attack d...
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Cockneys vs Zombies
2023
The Puppet Asylum
6.7/3
Otto Baxter, a filmmaker with Down's Syndrome, directs and stars in this musical horror-comedy short based on his life, set in Victorian London.
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The Puppet Asylum
2016
Respectable: The Mary Millington Story
6.643/14
Documentary chronicling the extraordinary life and tragic death of Mary Millington - Britain's most famous pornographic actress of the 1970s.
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Respectable: The Mary Millington Story
1978
Les Misérables
7.19/29
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both me...
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Les Misérables
1981
4D Special Agents
7/1
A group of children in the East End of London belong to a police sponsored scheme called '4D Special Agents'.
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4D Special Agents
2001
Pandaemonium
5.364/12
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, an unstable but brilliant poet, becomes friends with the unknown William Wordsworth, and together they set out to recreate En...
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Pandaemonium
2018
Terminal
5.514/808
In the dark heart of a sprawling, anonymous city, two assassins carry out a sinister mission, a teacher battles a fatal illness, and an enigmatic jani...
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Terminal
1988
Across the Lake
5.8/9
Starring Anthony Hopkins as speed king Donald Campbell. This 1988 film set In 1967 when Campbell broke the 300mph water speed barrier in his beloved B...
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Across the Lake
1976
Wedding Bells
0/0
'Alice' and the children try to foil the attempt of thieves to steal the presents from a wedding reception, with hilarious results.
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Wedding Bells
1976
Baby Sitters
0/0
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Baby Sitters
1976
Double Trouble
0/0
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Double Trouble
1976
The Big Kick
0/0
The exploits of Judy, Joey and Josh and a chimpanzee called Alice.
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The Big Kick
1976
On the Tiles
0/0
Alice's attempts to reach the children by climbing down the chimney of their grandmother's house result in various people being stranded on the roof....
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On the Tiles
1976
Monkey Tricks
0/0
'Alice's' attempts to help with house decorating result in disaster. She is banished to the tree-house but a violent storm drives her indoors, to the...
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Monkey Tricks
1989
When the Whales Came
6.393/14
A pair of children befriend an eccentric old man, who lives isolated on the far shore of their island home. But it turns out that the old man knows a...
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When the Whales Came
2016
Smoking Guns
6/9
A young gambler makes a large, risky bet on a horse race. When the odds turn in his favour, more than one party has sudden interest in the winning bet...
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Smoking Guns
2017
Eat Locals
5.155/116
In a quiet countryside farmhouse, Britain's vampires gather for their once-every-fifty-years meeting. Others will be joining them too; Sebastian Crock...
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Eat Locals
1981
Memoirs of a Survivor
4.1/12
Based on the acclaimed novel by Doris Lessing, this dystopian science fiction tale concerns a woman struggling to make her way in a post-apocalyptic s...
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Memoirs of a Survivor
2014
Muppets Most Wanted
6.3/828
While on a grand world tour, The Muppets find themselves wrapped into an European jewel-heist caper headed by a Kermit the Frog look-alike and his das...
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Muppets Most Wanted
1991
All Out
5.5/4
Angelo and two of his buddies set out to rob a Swiss bank, and from the start things don't go well. The man driving the getaway car packed up and left...
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All Out
2018
Sherlock Gnomes
5.7/713
Garden gnomes Gnomeo & Juliet recruit renown detective Sherlock Gnomes to investigate the mysterious disappearance of other garden ornaments.
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Sherlock Gnomes
1976
Bugsy Malone
6.572/284
New York, 1929, a war rages between two rival gangsters, Fat Sam and Dandy Dan. Dan is in possession of a new and deadly weapon, the dreaded "splurge...
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Bugsy Malone
2006
Manilla Envelopes
0/0
Also known as The Battersea Ripper, this is a comic crime thriller set in London concerning a young girl's kidnapping and the hapless police and repor...
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Manilla Envelopes
2013
Fedz
0/1
In London, just a few years from now, the government have enforced a curfew - no civilians on the streets after dark. A terrorist group have threatene...
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Fedz
2017
The Agency
10/1
Adapted from the acclaimed short story by Man Brooker Prize Nominee Sarah Hall. The Agency is a modern and stylish take on middle class female empower...
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The Agency
2017
Double Date
5.5/62
Meet innocent Jim, terrified of girls, and on a reluctant quest to prove his manhood the night before he turns 30. He and his cocky friend Alex think...
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Double Date
1996
Jude
6.3/128
In late 19th-century England, Jude aspires to be an academic, but is hobbled by his blue-collar background. Instead, he works as a stonemason and is t...
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Jude
1988
Didn't You Kill My Brother?
0/0
Carl Moss leaves jail,where he has taken the rap for his evil twin Sterling,and has been declared a model prisoner. Pauline Sneek,his probation office...
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Didn't You Kill My Brother?
1998
Let the Good Times Roll
0/0
A short autobiographical film written by Dexter Fletcher.
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Let the Good Times Roll
1985
Wings of Death
0/0
In the revolting and decaying Byzantium Hotel, young heroin addict Alex, played by Dexter Fletcher, relives an idyllic - and possibly apocryphal - pas...
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Wings of Death
2011
The Three Musketeers
5.796/2624
The hot-headed young D'Artagnan along with three former legendary but now down on their luck Musketeers must unite and defeat a beautiful double agent...
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The Three Musketeers
1993
Prince Cinders
0/0
Fairy-tale fantasy is turned on its head this time, as a fairy godmother in training commits the ultimate faux pas and transforms a handsome young man...
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Prince Cinders
2011
Welcome to Hoxford : The fan film
7/1
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Welcome to Hoxford : The fan film
2017
60 Seconds to Die
7.7/3
Horror Anthology "60 second short films that will scar you for a lifetime"
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60 Seconds to Die
2010
Hong Kong Confidential
6/6
One week in one of the most exotic and picturesque cities of the world. The day of changes comes when Amaya meets a charming Englishman, Paul and it d...
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Hong Kong Confidential
2023
Love at First Sight
7.266/583
Hadley and Oliver begin falling in love on a flight from New York to London, but when they lose each other at customs, can they defy all odds to reuni...
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Love at First Sight
1997
Solomon
6.6/30
David, now an old man, is still king of Israel. Among his sons, the ambitious Adonijah and the clever Solomon, fierce rivals, since both are prospecti...
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