Michael Bryant

Michael Bryant

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Michael Dennis Bryant (5 April 1928 – 25 April 2002) was a British stage and television actor. Bryant attended Battersea Grammar School and after service in the Merchant Navy and Army, he attended drama school and appeared in many productions on the London stage. He made his film debut in 1955. His greatest role was Mathieu in BBC2's 1970 adaptation of Jean-Paul Sartre's Roads to Freedom trilogy. His guest star appearance as Wing Commander Marsh, who feigns insanity in the 'Tweedledum' episode of the BBC drama series, Colditz (1972), is still widely remembered. Bryant was chosen by Orson Welles to play the lead role in The Deep, Welles's adaptation of the Charles Williams novel Dead Calm. The production frequently ran out of money, and following the death of actor Laurence Harvey in 1973, Welles stopped production and announced the movie - which had been completed except for one special effects shot of a ship exploding - would not be released. (The novel was finally adapted to film in 1989.) In 1969 Bryant took his love of the stage on a strange trip into the realm of cult films, playing a clever male prostitute who outwits a delusional family of killers in the dark comedy Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny and Girly, an adaptation of a play by Maisie Mosco. Due to poor marketing and a lack of faith in the film by the distributor, the film quickly sank into obscurity even before it could develop a cult following. One of Bryant's most memorable performances was in the classic BBC television play The Stone Tape (1972), in which he plays the leader of a team of scientists who investigate ghost sightings in a brooding gothic mansion. Bryant also had a supporting role as a sadistic psychiatrist in the cult classic black comedy The Ruling Class, with Peter O'Toole and Alastair Sim. He also appeared in Richard Attenborough's Gandhi (1982) as a British diplomat. Having played Lenin in the film Nicholas and Alexandria, Bryant would later reprise the role in Robert Bolt's play State of Revolution (1977). He had previously co-starred in Bolt's unsuccessful Gentle Jack. The 1977 production of a Bolt play though was significant for featuring the first role he performed at the National Theatre where he was a constant presence for a quarter of a century. Bryant, described by Michael Billington as "rock-solid company man", had earlier performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1964, including the premiere production of Harold Pinter's The Homecoming (1965), in which he played Teddy, the returning academic. In 1980, Michael Bryant won the London Drama Critics Circle Theatre Award for Best Actor, and his other theatrical performances were equally well thought of. Bryant won Laurence Olivier Awards in 1988 and 1990 and was nominated twice more. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Bryant (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

  • Title: Michael Bryant
  • Popularity: 3.701
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1928-04-05
  • Place of Birth: London, England, UK
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Michael Bryant Movies

  • 2000
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    The Miracle Maker

    The Miracle Maker

    5.9 2000 HD

    A mother and father in search of help for their sick daughter cross paths with an extraordinary carpenter named Jesus, who has devoted his life to...

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  • 1972
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    The Ruling Class

    The Ruling Class

    6.377 1972 HD

    When the Earl of Gurney dies in a cross-dressing accident, his schizophrenic son, Jack, inherits the Gurney estate. Jack is not the average nobleman;...

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  • 1972
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    The Stone Tape

    The Stone Tape

    5.9 1972 HD

    A research team from an electronics company move into an old Victorian house to start work on finding a new recording medium. When team member Jill...

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  • 1970
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    Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny & Girly

    Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny & Girly

    6.1 1970 HD

    A wealthy, fatherless British clan kidnaps bums and hippies and forces them to participate in an elaborate role-playing game in which they are the...

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  • 1971
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    Nicholas and Alexandra

    Nicholas and Alexandra

    6.9 1971 HD

    Tsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.

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  • 1968
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    Mille Miglia

    Mille Miglia

    1 1968 HD

    In 1955 Stirling Moss and Denis Jenkinson won the Mille Miglia, one of the toughest races in the calendar.This play is about the two men, and the...

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  • 1995
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    Orson Welles: The One-Man Band

    Orson Welles: The One-Man Band

    6.4 1995 HD

    Orson Welles' archives of unfinished/never released movies and the last years of his life from the perspective of Oja Kodar (life and artistic...

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  • 1963
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    The Mind Benders

    The Mind Benders

    6.3 1963 HD

    A British scientist is discovered to have been passing information to the Communists, then kills himself. Another scientist decides that they might...

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  • 1996
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    Hamlet

    Hamlet

    7.335 1996 HD

    Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother now marrying the murderer... his uncle. Meanwhile, war is brewing.

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  • 1967
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    The Deadly Affair

    The Deadly Affair

    6.256 1967 HD

    Charles Dobbs is a British secret agent investigating the apparent suicide of Foreign Office official Samuel Fennan. Dobbs suspects that Fennan's...

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  • 1974
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    The Treasure of Abbot Thomas

    The Treasure of Abbot Thomas

    6.4 1974 HD

    The Reverend Justin Somerton, a scholar of medieval history, and his protégé Lord Peter Dattering are visiting an abbey library. While...

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  • 1956
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    Uranium Boom

    Uranium Boom

    6 1956 HD

    Ex-lumberjack Brad Collins (Dennis Morgan) and mining engineer Grady Mathews (William Talman) find uranium in the Colorado badlands. While Grady...

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  • 1998
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    King Lear

    King Lear

    8 1998 HD

    Adaptation of Shakespeare's play.

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  • 1984
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    Sakharov

    Sakharov

    7 1984 HD

    Biography of Russian physicist & dissident Andrei Sakharov focuses on his first acts in his civil rights.

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  • 1993
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    Anna Lee: Headcase

    Anna Lee: Headcase

    6 1993 HD

    A bright, pretty and determined young lady named Anna Lee quits the police department in search of adventure, and joins a small and somewhat stuffy...

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  • 2007
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    The Deep

    The Deep

    1 2007 HD

    A couple's honeymoon trip aboard a yacht leads to a claustrophobic drama when another vessel runs into their voyage, apparently drifting. Shot in a...

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  • 1967
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    Torture Garden

    Torture Garden

    6 1967 HD

    Five people visit a fairground sideshow run by the sinister Dr. Diabolo. Having shown them a handful of haunted-house-style attractions, he promises...

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  • 1968
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    The Explorer

    The Explorer

    1 1968 HD

    Drama about the emotional problems left behind by a young explorer murdered in the Matto Grosso jungle in South America. (Shotlist)Work historyTV...

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  • 1982
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    Gandhi

    Gandhi

    7.6 1982 HD

    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...

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  • 1971
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    The Switch

    The Switch

    1 1971 HD

    South Vietnam. Working as the head of voluntary relief team Henry Martin objects to the use of torture on prisoners. Martin's principles are tested...

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  • 1974
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    If There Weren't Any Blacks You'd Have to Invent Them

    If There Weren't Any Blacks You'd Have to Invent Them

    1 1974 HD

    Set in a cemetery, the film tells the story of a young man whom a blind man wrongly imagines to be black, and explores the nature of human prejudice.

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  • 1974
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    Is It Something I Said?

    Is It Something I Said?

    1 1974 HD

    A businessman having a nervous breakdown checks in for one last night at a shabby hotel where he composes a suicide note. The hotel owner intervenes...

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  • 1974
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    Mr. Axelford's Angel

    Mr. Axelford's Angel

    8.5 1974 HD

    A romantic tale of a scatty secretary and a stuffy boss.

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  • 1977
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    Short Back and Sides

    Short Back and Sides

    1 1977 HD

    A city planner puts his breinchild into operation without considering the heartbreak it causes to the people affected.

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  • 1973
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    The Professional

    The Professional

    1 1973 HD

    An insignificant little middle-aged man strikes a heinous bargain with an underworld expert. The man has a problem: his wife. A professional killer...

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  • 1972
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    The Greeks and Their Gifts

    The Greeks and Their Gifts

    1 1972 HD

    A man makes an unexpected appearance at his younger brother's house in the middle of the night. He needs somewhere to stay and convinces his brother...

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  • 1967
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    Easier in the Dark

    Easier in the Dark

    1 1967 HD

    Two people start to live together and raise children and a double pattern is set. You're a couple and one day you realise who or what you were...

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  • 1974
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    Caravan to Vaccarès

    Caravan to Vaccarès

    5.444 1974 HD

    American Neil Bowman is traveling through France when he meets British photographer Lila. They are hired by French land owner Duc de Croyter to...

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  • 1988
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    Franz Kafka's 'The Trial'

    Franz Kafka's 'The Trial'

    1 1988 HD

    BBC documentary about Franz Kafka played by GREEK TV in 1990.This documentary is one of the ten films of "The Modern World: Ten Great Writers (1988)".

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  • 1976
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    My Homeland

    My Homeland

    1 1976 HD

    Perhaps this is Robert Vas' most personal film; a portrait of his country - Hungary - as seen through the eyes of an exile. Robert Vas escaped from...

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  • 1972
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    The Duchess of Malfi

    The Duchess of Malfi

    1 1972 HD

    The Duchess of Malfi is recently widowed and her greedy brothers are determined she will not marry again, so they employ Daniel De Bosola, a murderer...

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  • 1969
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    Goodbye, Mr. Chips

    Goodbye, Mr. Chips

    6.7 1969 HD

    Academy Award-honoree Peter O'Toole stars in this musical classic about a prim English schoolmaster who learns to show his compassion through the...

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  • 1955
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    Passage Home

    Passage Home

    5.6 1955 HD

    Set in 1931, the film takes place aboard a merchant ship, briefly harboured in South America. A young woman (Diane Cilento) boards the ship as a...

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  • 1970
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    The Three Sisters

    The Three Sisters

    6 1970 HD

    In a small Russian town at the turn of the century, three sisters (Olga, Irina, and Masha) and their brother Andrei live but dream daily of their...

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  • 1982
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    The Merry Wives of Windsor

    The Merry Wives of Windsor

    8 1982 HD

    When Sir John Falstaff decides that he wants to have a little fun he writes two letters to a pair of Window wives: Mistress Ford and Mistress Page....

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  • 1962
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    Life for Ruth

    Life for Ruth

    6.2 1962 HD

    John Harris finds himself ostracized and placed on trial for allowing his daughter Ruth to die. His religious beliefs forbade him to give consent for...

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  • 1958
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    A Night to Remember

    A Night to Remember

    7.6 1958 HD

    The sinking of the Titanic is presented in a highly realistic fashion in this tense British drama. The disaster is portrayed largely from the...

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  • 1982
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    A Genius Like Us: A Portrait of Joe Orton

    A Genius Like Us: A Portrait of Joe Orton

    1 1982 HD

    Documentary portrait of the life of playwright Joe Orton, who was murdered by his lover Kenneth Halliwell in April 1967.

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  • 1976
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    The Daedalus Equations

    The Daedalus Equations

    1 1976 HD

    Hans Daedalus has defected from East Germany to the West. Is it possible that his opacity equations live on after his death?

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  • 2020
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    The Curse Of Denton Rose

    The Curse Of Denton Rose

    1 2020 HD

    A computer analyst suddenly finds himself the focus of Hollywood elites after creating a character that goes viral online in the early days of...

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  • 1991
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    Heading Home

    Heading Home

    5.5 1991 HD

    The story of a woman who falls in love with two very different men in post World War II London.

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  • 1972
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    Colditz

    Colditz

    7.3 1972 HD

    Colditz is a British television series co-produced by the BBC and Universal Studios and screened between 1972 and 1974. The series deals with Allied...

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  • 1951
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    Hallmark Hall of Fame

    Hallmark Hall of Fame

    8.667 1951 HD

    Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The...

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  • 1966
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    Talking to a Stranger

    Talking to a Stranger

    8.5 1966 HD

    A grown-up brother and sister's visit to their parents home culminates in a shocking tragedy. The events of the weekend are told over four episodes,...

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  • 1955
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    The Millionaire

    The Millionaire

    5 1955 HD

    An anthology series that explored the ways sudden and unexpected wealth changed life for better or for worse. It told the stories of people who were...

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  • 1955
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    The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp

    The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp

    6.7 1955 HD

    The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp is a television western series loosely based on the life of frontier marshal Wyatt Earp. The half-hour...

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  • 1951
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    The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

    The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

    4.5 1951 HD

    The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok is an American Western television series which ran for eight seasons from 1951 through 1958. The Screen Gems...

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  • 1974
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    Fall of Eagles

    Fall of Eagles

    6.8 1974 HD

    "Fall of Eagles" is a 13-part British television drama aired by the BBC in 1974. The series portrays historical events from 1848 to 1918, dealing...

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  • 1978
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    BBC Television Shakespeare

    BBC Television Shakespeare

    5.2 1978 HD

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

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  • 1955
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    Buffalo Bill Jr.

    Buffalo Bill Jr.

    5 1955 HD

    Buffalo Bill, Jr. is an American Western television series starring Dickie Jones that aired in syndication from March 1, 1955, until September 21,...

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  • 1955
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    ITV Play of the Week

    ITV Play of the Week

    4 1955 HD

    A UK anthology series of single plays from major playwrights old and new. It ran from 1955 to 1974, producing about five hundred ninety-minute...

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  • 1956
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    Telephone Time

    Telephone Time

    6.3 1956 HD

    Telephone Time is an American anthology drama series that aired on CBS in 1956, and on ABC from 1957 to 1958. The series features plays by John...

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  • 1957
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    Harbor Command

    Harbor Command

    4 1957 HD

    Harbor Command is an American action series that aired in syndicated from October 11, 1957, to July 4, 1958. The series stars Wendell Corey as...

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  • 1965
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    BBC Play of the Month

    BBC Play of the Month

    5 1965 HD

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

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  • 1975
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    Late Call

    Late Call

    1 1975 HD

    Elderly couple Sylvia and Arthur Calvert are forced to move in with their widowed son and his children in Carshall New Town.

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  • 1970
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    The Roads to Freedom

    The Roads to Freedom

    3.75 1970 HD

    Taboo-busting adaptation for television of Jean-Paul Sartre's trilogy.

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  • 1967
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    The Big M

    The Big M

    6 1967 HD

    A private detective investigates a protection racket and becomes involved in a murder case.

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  • 1988
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    The Modern World: Ten Great Writers

    The Modern World: Ten Great Writers

    1 1988 HD

    This documentary series uses drama and commentary to shed light on the lives and works of Joseph Conrad, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, T. S. Eliot, Henrik...

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  • 1983
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    Reilly: Ace of Spies

    Reilly: Ace of Spies

    7.1 1983 HD

    Reilly, Ace of Spies is a 1983 television miniseries dramatizing the life of Sidney Reilly, a Russian Jew who became one of the greatest spies ever...

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