Pauline Melville

Pauline Melville

Pauline Melville was born in Guyana in 1948 of mixed European and Amerindian ancestry. She has worked as an actress, appearing in films such as Mona Lisa and British television programmes including the BBC Television comedy series 'The Young Ones', before turning her hand to writing in 1990. Her short stories and novels have been critically acclaimed, earning her numerous awards including the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Award, and the Guyana Prize for Literature

  • Title: Pauline Melville
  • Popularity: 1.165
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1948-01-01
  • Place of Birth: Guyana
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Pauline Melville Movies

  • 1967
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    Far from the Madding Crowd

    Far from the Madding Crowd

    6.837 1967 HD

    Bathsheba Everdine, a willful, flirtatious, young woman, unexpectedly inherits a large farm and becomes romantically involved with three widely...

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  • 1993
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    Home Away from Home

    Home Away from Home

    1 1993 HD

    To ease her homesickness Miriam recreates an aspect of home in her suburban British garden. Cultural memory exerts a healing power, combatting...

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  • 2014
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    Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule

    Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule

    7.3 2014 HD

    Comedian Rik Mayall died suddenly on 9 June 2014. Mayall's blend of rocket-fuelled physical comedy, surrealism, subversive satire and pompous punk...

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  • 1988
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    Blackadder's Christmas Carol

    Blackadder's Christmas Carol

    7.9 1988 HD

    After a genial spirit shows the benevolent Ebenezer Blackadder visions of his unscrupulous ancestors, he resolves to mend his generous ways.

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  • 2000
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    The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song

    The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song

    4.8 2000 HD

    Ireland's bloody 1916 Easter Uprising, the suffragette movement in England, a Zeppelin raid, and a meeting with a rising young British cabinet member...

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  • 1986
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    Mona Lisa

    Mona Lisa

    6.854 1986 HD

    George is a small-time crook just out of prison who discovers his tough-guy image is out of date. Reduced to working as a minder/driver for high...

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  • 1989
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    How to Get Ahead in Advertising

    How to Get Ahead in Advertising

    6.263 1989 HD

    Pressure from his boss and a skin-cream client produces a talking boil on a British adman's neck.

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  • 2010
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    Brighton Rock

    Brighton Rock

    5.7 2010 HD

    Charts the headlong fall of Pinkie, a razor-wielding disadvantaged teenager with a religious death wish.

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  • 1982
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    Scrubbers

    Scrubbers

    5.2 1982 HD

    Inmates fight, pair off, try suicide and attempt escape at a British reform school for girls.

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  • 1991
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    The House of Bernarda Alba

    The House of Bernarda Alba

    1 1991 HD

    A domineering,reclusive, and ostentatiously pious widow in a small Spanish town keeps such close watch on her daughters that they are unable to have...

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  • 1980
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    The Long Good Friday

    The Long Good Friday

    7.1 1980 HD

    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...

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  • 1993
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    Shadowlands

    Shadowlands

    6.9 1993 HD

    C.S. Lewis, a world-renowned writer and professor, leads a passionless life until he meets spirited poet Joy Gresham.

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  • 1992
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    Utz

    Utz

    5.4 1992 HD

    Hugh Whitemore adapted Bruce Chatwin's novel for this tale of a New York antique dealer who travels to Prague to buy the porcelain collection of the...

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  • 1967
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    Ulysses

    Ulysses

    6 1967 HD

    Dublin; June 16, 1904. Stephen Dedalus, who fancies himself as a poet, embarks on a day of wandering about the city during which he finds friendship...

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  • 1982
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    Britannia Hospital

    Britannia Hospital

    6.3 1982 HD

    Britannia Hospital, an esteemed English institution, is marking its gala anniversary with a visit by the Queen Mother herself. But when investigative...

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  • 1987
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    Rat in the Skull

    Rat in the Skull

    1 1987 HD

    In a cell in a London police station, a suspected I.R.A. bomber, Roche, has been detained for questioning. To help them in the interrogation, the...

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  • 1988
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    Didn't You Kill My Brother?

    Didn't You Kill My Brother?

    1 1988 HD

    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...

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  • 1988
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    Didn't You Kill My Brother?

    Didn't You Kill My Brother?

    1 1988 HD

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  • 1985
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    Girls On Top

    Girls On Top

    4.8 1985 HD

    Four girls share a flat together in London. Having nothing in common aside from their gender, they barely manage to co-exist.

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  • 1982
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    The Young Ones

    The Young Ones

    7.9 1982 HD

    The misadventures of four lunatic students who live in a shared student house. There's Rick, the overblown political one addicted to Cliff Richard,...

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  • 1982
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    The Young Ones

    The Young Ones

    7.9 1982 HD

    The misadventures of four lunatic students who live in a shared student house. There's Rick, the overblown political one addicted to Cliff Richard,...

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  • 1988
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    Alexei Sayle's Stuff

    Alexei Sayle's Stuff

    6.5 1988 HD

    Alexei Sayle's Stuff is a comedy sketch show which ran on BBC2 for a total of 18 episodes over 3 series from 1988 to 1991.

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  • 1991
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    Spender

    Spender

    7 1991 HD

    Jimmy Nail plays tough cop Spender, forced to return to his native Newcastle after a failed undercover operation in London. He uses tough and...

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  • 1991
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    2Point4 Children

    2Point4 Children

    7.194 1991 HD

    They're just your average family. Stressed mum Bill, daft dad Ben, and two troublesome teens. Plus just a few crazy ideas, escapades and mishaps. The...

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  • 1988
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    Red Dwarf

    Red Dwarf

    8 1988 HD

    The adventures of the last human alive and his friends, stranded three million years into deep space on the mining ship Red Dwarf.

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  • 1980
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    Boom Boom... Out Go the Lights

    Boom Boom... Out Go the Lights

    1 1980 HD

    Groundbreaking alternative comedy programme bringing the new wave of humour to television for the first time.

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  • 1982
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    The Comic Strip Presents...

    The Comic Strip Presents...

    7.3 1982 HD

    The Comic Strip is a group of British comedians, who came to prominence in the 1980s. They are known for their television series The Comic Strip...

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  • 1983
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    Blackadder

    Blackadder

    7.976 1983 HD

    Black Adder traces the deeply cynical and self-serving lineage of various Edmund Blackadders throughout British history, from the muck of the Middle...

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  • 1970
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    Blackadder

    Blackadder

    7.3 1970 HD

    The Comic Strip is a group of British comedians, who came to prominence in the 1980s. They are known for their television series The Comic Strip...

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