Paul Rogers
Nacimiento : 1917-03-22, Plympton, Devon, England, UK
Muerte : 2013-10-06
Cleaver
Jody Ann Howells, a survivor of the Still Rivers Massacre now working in Bail Enforcement, is on the trail of her latest perp, a young woman who is on the run after being found on the scene of a horrific murder, a young woman who may be connected to her past. As Howells closes in on her she discovers that the killer she faced all those years ago may still be alive and kicking and he has his sights on a family making a cross country road trip, only this time he's not alone.
Breton
Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), en un campo de concentración, los nazis toman una macabra decisión: ejecutar a uno de cada diez hombres, que son seleccionados al azar. Uno de ellos es Louis Chavel, un rico abogado que ofrece toda su fortuna a quien quiera ocupar su lugar en la ejecución. Un hombre aceptará la propuesta. Inspirada en la novela homónima del escritor británico Graham Greene. (FILMAFFINITY)
When best-selling author James Fuller Hayes comes to Glasgow to publicise his personal account of the Spanish Civil War, a surprise reunion with two of his old comrades from the Int Brigade reveals contradictory & devastating information. Technically, this was the last Play For Today ever made by the BBC.
Hugo
An artist fails a test and is required to direct traffic in New York City's Holland Tunnel. He winds up falling in love with a beautiful woman, who takes him to the moon on a Lunar Cruiser.
Thomas Marjoriebanks
Touching comedy about a high court judge, now retired to his English countryside home, who resolves to end years of suspicion about his wife's fidelity and the true paternity of their son.
Jan Citron
Jan and Meg Citron are on holiday in Germany. Their car is stopped by the police. A simple traffic offence? But their seemingly innocent past is ripped open and life will never be the same again.
Peter
"Whether priest or thespian, never once let yourself doubt that the role you're playing is real. Lead your little flock from childhood to the grave via God's sweet sacraments and let no doubts intrude -ever. Once you start to question - you're finished."
Henry Trent
A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of dusty treasures. Evicted and with no way to pay his debts, he and his granddaughter flee.
Altieri
Queen Christina of Sweden abdicates and travels to Rome to embrace the Catholic church.
James Jarvis
A black South African minister searches the unfamiliar back alleys and shantytowns of Johannesburg for his son.
Max
la historia transcurre en la sala de estar de una vieja casa londinense, a la que Teddy lleva a su mujer para presentársela a sus parientes. La revelación de un oscuro secreto familiar reabrirá viejas heridas.
Mr. Waites
Roy leaves his abusive father's house and starts life anew as a woman, named Wendy. Through trial and error she learns the skills and consequences of being a woman.
John Hazlitt
Michael Marler, a successful business man in London, is about to make his way to the top. The death of his father brings him - after 37 years - back to his hometown Liverpool, where he is confronted with his lost Irish roots. He finds out that his father died because of a fight with some anglo-saxon teddy boys. It becomes "a matter of honour" for him, to take his revenge without involving the British police
Jack Roberts
Steve Howard, a British sales executive living in Manchester, England, begins an affair with a young hitchhiker, Elle Patterson, to emotionally get away from his marriage to his wife Francis. But when Elle moves into a room in Steve and Francis's house, he must keep the true nature of his relationship with Elle under wraps at all costs.
Haldane
Años de la Guerra Fría. El servicio de inteligencia británico sospecha que los soviéticos están colocando misiles en la frontera alemana. El polaco Leiser se traslada detrás el Telón de acero para investigar, pero su vida corre peligro. Una joven alemana le ayudará a evitar a la policía secreta y a cumplir con su misión. (Filmaffinity)
Augustinian
Después de pasar veinte años en un campo de trabajos forzados en Siberia, el sacerdote ruso Kiril Lakota es liberado y enviado a Roma, donde el papa, que está enfermo, lo nombra cardenal. Mientras, el mundo vive en un estado permanente de crisis, con la Guerra Fría como telón de fondo.
Chief Warder
A young man's attempts at seduction and social climbing lead to mayhem.
Bottom
Peter Hall's film adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy, filmed in and around an English country house and starring actors from the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Supt. Taylor
Peter Rayston, has been in and out of prison most of his life. At 30, he is released for the eighth time, after serving a sentence for housebreaking. Immediately, he goes back to his old life, providing for his expensive tastes by executing a series of daring burglaries
Dr Milton Gillen
Un eminente psicólogo parece haberse suicidado, hecho al que colegas y pacientes no dan credibilidad. Su hija de 14 años se niega a creer que sea un suicidio, ya que iría contra los principios de su padre, y piensa que ha sido asesinado. Para resolverlo busca la ayuda de un periodista, antiguo paciente de su padre. La verdad será, al mismo tiempo, sorprendente y perturbadora.
Dr. Eric McKenzie
A Laura (Susan Hayward) le diagnostican un tumor cerebral y su novio, un piloto de coches de carreras, no sabe qué hacer. Además, Laura empieza a sentir una atracción irresistible por el médico que intenta salvarle la vida. (FILMAFFINITY)
Philip Seymour, 1st Lieutenant
En 1797, durante las guerras napoleónicas, un buque de guerra inglés recluta a la fuerza a un inocente joven que se irá ganando la simpatía del resto de la tripulación. Pero eso no podrá soportarlo el suboficial de armas.
Professor George Chown
Harry Brown is a somewhat rough and wild university student, who has the ability to win friends, especially the underdogs like Phil who doesn't play 'rugger' and can't sink a whole pint of beer, and African student Reggie. He also has a way with the girls....
Hart Jacobs
Cuando la hija de John Harris es gravemente herida en un accidente de navegación, el hospital le dice que ella va a necesitar una transfusión de sangre urgente. Debido a sus creencias religiosas, Harris se niega a dar el permiso y la niña muere. Cuando la investigación libera a Harris de toda culpa, el médico a cargo del caso intenta llamar a la policía para presentar cargos de homicidio contra Harris.
Henry VIII
En el Londres de 1537, dos niños semejantes entre intercambian los "papeles" por un corto tiempo. Uno de ellos es el Principe Eduardo y otro un mendigo. Después de muchas aventuras, el príncipe recupere la identidad que le corresponde y hace que su "gemelo" se venga a vivir con el a la corte El príncipe y el mendigo (1962 film), es un capitulo de El Maravilloso Mundo de Walt Disney.. Estuvo protagonizada por Guy Williams como Miles Hendon, y Scully Sean en doble función, como el príncipe Edward / Tom Canty.
Governor
New inmate Rainbow has just been imprisoned for a year for his part in a fight over his girlfriend Wendy. After being assigned to kitchen duty, he becomes involved in a food-trading racket. When the scheme is betrayed to the prison's governor, its prime mover is threatened with an extended sentence - unless Rainbow can come up with a way to save him.
Roy Milne
Jim Fuller (Stuart Whitman), que ha sido condenado a tres años de cárcel por haber intentado abusar de un niño, intenta rehacer su vida con la ayuda del psiquiatra de la prisión (Rod Steiger), que le consigue incluso un trabajo cuando queda en libertad.
Sydney Johnson
Johnnie Byrne is a member of the British Parliament. In his 40s, he's feeling frustrated with his life and his personal as well as professional problems tower up over him. His desires to win the next election are endangered by his constant looking for love and he is faced with the choice of giving up a career in politics or giving up the woman he loves.
MajWilliam Spence
Unbeknownst to him, a soldier is sent on a doomed mission because of the high likelihood of him divulging secrets if captured and tortured.
Hubert Carter
Jim Wormald, un comerciante inglés afincado en La Habana, se dedica a la venta de aspiradoras; casi por casualidad y muy a su pesar es reclutado como espía del servicio secreto británico en la Cuba de Batista. Acepta el trabajo porque considera que el dinero le permitirá pagar los estudios de su hija. Sin embargo, su falta de vocación y de entusiasmo son tales que acaba inventándose los informes que envía a Londres.
Iago
The earliest British televised production in existence of the play Othello, with black American actor, Gordon Heath, in the title role. This was the first televised version of the play to feature a black actor in the title role. Gordon Heath, an American, came to Britain in 1947 and was cast by Kenneth Tynan to play Othello in his 1950 Arts Council production. The play takes place in Venice and Cyprus and the original production was part-live, with recorded Venice sequences
William Pitt
Durante el XIX, en Inglaterra el elegante "dandy" Beau Brummell se convierte en el hombre de confianza del Príncipe de Gales. Cuando se descubre una conspiración contra Jorge III, tendrá que abandonar su placentera vida y actuar en consecuencia.
Taffy
A man hypnotizes a young woman into being an opera singer.
Re. Owen Jones
Mr. Gray is the new Resident in Charge of the Welcome Islands in the Indian Ocean. The Islands are full of life, but the only other Europeans are the "sanctimonious, psalm-singing" brother-sister missionary team of Martha and Owen Jordans, and the Honourable Ted - a hard-drinking, womanizing social outcast whose English family pays him to stay away. Martha and Ted become an unlikely team when cholera threatens the islands and they must do their best to stop its spread.
Murder in the Cathedral is a story about Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, and his struggles against temptation and personal vanity prior to his murder in the great Cathedral.