Anthony Bate

Anthony Bate

Nacimiento : 1927-08-31, Stourbridge, Worcestershire, England, UK

Muerte : 2012-06-19

Perfil

Anthony Bate

Películas

En un lugar de África
Mr. Brindley
Regina, de cinco años, empieza una nueva vida junto a sus padres en una destartalada granja de Kenia, donde han llegado huyendo del nazismo alemán. La niña pronto se adapta a las nuevas condiciones de vida, pero a sus padres les cuesta más.
Happy Now
Judge
Un pueblo del norte de Gales se vio sacudido hace dos décadas por el asesinato de su reina de la belleza. Un vagabundo fue detenido y encarcelado acusado del crimen. 14 años después, el hombre es liberado, y el pueblo se ve de nuevo envuelto en una nueva trama de crímenes.
Dominio inminente
Kowal
Intriga y chantaje contra un miembro de la KGB de Polonia.
Countdown to War
Simon
Based on a play, the story details the dramatic negotiations between UK, France, Poland, Nazi-Germany and USSR from the day Czechoslovakia fell, until Britain's declaration of war on Germany caused by Hitler's invasion of Poland.
Breakthrough at Reykjavik
Edkuard Shevardnadze
Political drama about the Gorbachev-Reagan summit at Reykjavik
Exploits at West Poley
The Man Who Has Failed
Somerset 1850. Two boys exploring an underground cave, divert the course of a river and drastically change the lives of the people of two villages.
Recuerdos a Broad Street
City Banker
Habiendo escrito la música y el guión de esta película, Paul McCartney también es el protagonista. Cuando la cinta maestra del último álbum de McCartney se extravía, debe descubrir su paradero en menos de 24 horas o de lo contrario corre el riesgo de perder su compañía discográfica a manos del miserable Sr. Rath (John Bennett). McCartney interpreta tres nuevas canciones, junto con temas clásicos de los Beatles. Co-protagonizada por Ringo Starr, ex compañero de los Beatles, como baterista en la banda de Paul, Barbara Bach, esposa de Ringo en la vida real, Linda, entonces esposa de McCartney y Tracy Ullman.
Nelly's Version
George
People claim to know an amnesiac who finds herself in a hotel with a suitcase full of cash.
A Woman Called Golda
Sir Stuart Ross
The story of the Russian-born, Wisconsin-raised woman who rose to become Israel's prime minister in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Psy-Warriors
Warren
Soldiers are captured and interrogated by terrorists: but is it real or only a sadistic form of psychological training exercise?
To Kill a King
Harry
A writer suffering from 'writer's block' begins encountering a mysterious female figure. Part of the BBC anthology series, Leap in the Dark.
'Tis Pity She's a Whore
Soranzo
Lord Sorenzo marries the beautiful young Annabella, but unbeknownst to him, she is pregnant as a result of an incestuous relationship with her brother Giovanni. Sorenzo discovers the truth, and his ambitious, scheming servant Vasques, resorts to murder (and worse) to ensure that the whole affair ends in a heart rending tragedy! The original 17th century play was set in Italy, this version the action takes place in Victorian England.
The Network
Roland Jeffries
What do Rose from Devon and Christina from Stuttgart have in common? And in what way is their fate linked to that of wealthy Fiona Dunkerley?
The Seagull
Dr. Dorn
A group of friends and relations gather at a country estate to see the first performance of an experimental play written and staged by the young man of the house, Konstantin, an aspiring writer who dreams of bringing new forms to the theatre.
Espías para la historia
Kim Philby
Recruited by the Russians during their days at Cambridge, three young Englishmen rise to become high-ranked MI5 agents until their exposure in 1949.
Beasts: During Barty's Party
Roger Truscott
A suburban couple are held under siege by a pack of frighteningly intelligent rats.
Double Echo
Dr Raeburn
A psychologist comes to believe that the acutely autistic 17-year-old girl that he has been attempting to treat is gifted with telepathic powers, and begins to exhaustively test her capabilities, enlisting the aid of a psychiatric colleague to impartially observe.
Ghost Story
Doctor Borden
Several old college friends converge at a mansion, ostensibly for a pleasant reunion. Larry Dann, the most easygoing of the bunch, comes to the conclusion that all is not well in the old dark house. For one thing, he's run across several people whom he's never met. For another, they all seem to be of a different time and place.
Moonlight on the Highway
Writing for ITV's SATURDAY NIGHT THEATRE series, Dennis Potter introduced the notion that popular music expresses the yearning of the human spirit for a better world. A troubled young man, David Peters (Ian Holm), claims, "Once dreams were possible, that's what the popular songs told us." Rejecting rock music of the day, Peters is immersed in the tunes of Thirties crooner Al Bowlly (killed during the London blitz). He collects Bowlly memorabilia, publishes the Bowlly fan-club newsletter, and finds pleasure in lip-synching Bowlly records but his obsession with Bowlly masks certain darker events in his past.
Davey Jones' Locker
Lieutenant Commander Jim Matthews
A troublesome boy gets other children into danger while skin diving, but learns his lesson after a near-fatal accident.
Act of Murder
Ralph Longman
A dangerous psychological game plays out between a man and the husband of the lover who spurned him.
Stop-over Forever
Trevor Graham
The flight attendant Sue Chambers becomes frightened for her life when she discovers that one of her coworkers was killed because the murderer thought he was killing her. Her fear does not prevent Sue from looking into the matter and trying to learn the killer's identity.
A Prize of Arms
Sergeant Reeves
A criminal gang sets out to pull off the heist of a large army payroll.
The Big Boys
Larry Argent
BBC television film starring Anthony Bate.
The Man in the Back Seat
AA Patrol Man (uncredited)
The haunting story of two incompetent crooks and an unwanted passenger which obviously has its roots in the Banquo’s ghost segment of Macbeth.
Payroll
Detective (uncredited)
A vicious gang of crooks plan to steal the wages of a local factory, but their carefully laid plans go wrong, when the factory employs an armoured van to carry the cash. The gang still go ahead with the robbery, but when the driver of the armoured van is killed in the raid, his wife plans revenge, and with the police closing in, the gang start to turn on each other.
The Big Day
Driver
A drama unfolding in the business world where shrewd methods are adopted by a boss to select a suitable yes-man for the Board.
Snowball
Policeman
A boy tells his parents that a bus conductor turned him off the bus home for not having a ticket. The story gets out of control and the conductor, a war veteran with memory problems, is harassed until events take a tragic turn.
The Collection
James
An elderly homosexual and a married woman are both intrigued by the same man.