Peter Barkworth
Nascimento : 1929-01-14, Margate, Kent, England, UK
Morte : 2006-10-21
História
Peter Barkworth was born on January 14, 1929 in Margate, Kent, England as Peter Wynn Barkworth. He was an actor, known for Where Eagles Dare (1968), Patton (1970) and Wilde (1997). He died on October 21, 2006 in Hampstead, London, England.
Charles Gill
A história de Oscar Wilde, gênio, poeta, dramaturgo e o Primeiro Homem Moderno. A auto-realização de sua homossexualidade causou enorme tormento a Wilde, ao manipular casamento, paternidade e responsabilidade com seu amor obsessivo por lorde Alfred Douglas.
Geoffrey Carr
Geoffrey Carr is a wealthy, key player in Britain's emerging computer industry, and newly married to Frances , a much younger woman, with wilful daughter Clare from a previous marriage. He'll do anything to make them happy, including stretching his finances to buy a Georgian estate in County Wicklow, where Frances grew up. Frank Crossan is an Irish Republican hitman on the run from British authorities. Seeking refuge with old girlfriend Kate, he creates a plan to kidnap a wealthy Brit for a ransom to fund a major arms deal. Their two worlds collide when Frances and Clare are brutally snatched away to a bleak hideaway and taken hostage. Geoffrey initially wants to cave in to the kidnapper's demands “ but nothing is simple when a personal crisis plays out against the forces of political intrigue, high finance and with the eyes of the media on them.
Nick Embiricos
The true story of jockey Bob Champion who overcame cancer to win the 1981 Grand National
Mr. Carter
After a chance meeting and an indiscreet conversation, childhood friends Tommy Beresford and Tuppence Cowley become involved in a convoluted intrigue led by a mysterious man known simply as Mr. Brown.
Pilot
Tatum O'Neal é a garota órfã, treinada pela tia rica (Nanette Newman) para ser campeã olímpica de corrida de cavalos. No meio do caminho, não são poucos os obstáculos, ainda mais quando se está sempre sob a sombra da grande amazonas que foi sua tia.
Anderson
Three philosophy professors travel to Prague for a conference. One of them, Anderson, is forced to rethink his ideas on ethics when a former student is arrested by the Czech authorities for writing about individualist approaches to morality.
Richard Elkinson
Comedy drama written by Brian Clark.
Mr. Smith
A day of quiet frustration for the mild-mannered Mr. Smith ends with him committing suicide.
Richard Sandman
O dono de uma mina de carvão em Yorkshire resolve mecanizar o trabalho para aumentar seus lucros. Mas quando ele decide destruir o pátio dos pôneis, três garotos elaboram um plano para salvar os animais.
Gilbert
For many men edging on middle-age a mistress is a wistful pipe-dream. Gilbert has made fantasy into fact. But he becomes increasingly uncomfortable when his mistress makes him go against his code of ethics and forces him to burgle his wife's flat.
In rural 1840's Scotland, Gavin Dishart arrives to become the new "little minister" of Thrums's Auld Licht church. He meets a mysterious young gypsy girl in the dens and to his horror Babbie draws him into her escape from the soldiers after she incites a Luddite riot. But unknown to Gavin, Babbie is more than she seems. And they must overcome her secret, the villagers' fears of her, and worst of all, Gavin's devotion to his mother's sensibilities, before they can openly declare their love.
Richard Elkinson
Richard and Jane Elkinson are having their annual Christmas party. Only trouble is stockbroker Richard's been made redundant and, as the night wears on, the guests are becoming less tactful
Prime Minister
Shaw's comedy of ideologies looks forty years to the future at the impossibility of government as the British cabinet and monarchy face a day of "crisis" for the country. King Magnus is happy to engage a prime minister seeking to transform the nation into a constitutional monarchy, but who truly rules in this democracy: the king, the government or the businessmen? And do any of them care about the people?
Bra Factory Director
The story of a Catholic family's dilemma about the pill.
Julius Sagamore
One of Shaw's later plays, The Millionairess explores his fascination with the machinations of capitalism. Epifania is glamorous, clever... and also the richest woman in the world. Brought up by a money-mad father, she will only consider a man for marriage if he can convert £150 into £50,000 within six months. But when she meets an intriguing Egyptian doctor, he has his own money-making challenge for her...
Dickie
Men behave in a beastly, chauvinistic manner at an office party, turning what should be a fun break from work into an exercise in bad taste.
Colonel John Welkin
Norte da África, 1943. Patton (George C. Scott) assume o comando e injeta disciplina nos seus subordinados. Na Segunda Guerra, preocupado com a batalha contra o Marechal Rommel (Karl Michael Vogler), Patton procura entendê-lo lendo o livro do próprio Rommel. Promovido, é enviado para a Itália, mas coloca o futuro de sua carreira em risco ao esbofetear um recruta que estava tendo um colapso nervoso. Este incidente o faz perder o comando do seu exército e, por extensão, ser excluído da invasão do "Dia D", além de ser forçado a pedir desculpas públicas pelo ocorrido.
Berkeley
Durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, um general dos Estados Unidos é capturado e feito prisioneiro no quartel-general da SS, nos Alpes da Baviera. Um grupo de soldados aliados tem a difícil missão de resgatá-lo. A operação torna-se ainda mais complicada quando descobrem que há um traidor entre eles.
Set in London's Swiinging Sixties, Cliff Richard plays Jamie Hopkins, an art student whose desperate need for money leads him to dabble in the underworld of drug dealing. Cliff has stated that Two A Penny, his most dramatically challenging movie role ever, is the film he is proudest of. He has stated, "if I did want to send a fiolm as a CV, I would send that one". It is certainly his most demanding and controversial role; cynical, self centered and highly manipulative, Jamie Hopkins lies, steals and double-crosses his mother (Dora Bryan), forces himself on his girlfriend (Ann Holloway) and gets involved in fist fights with criminals. Through the influence of his girlfriend, a born again Christian, is the possibility that he may reform, yet in the mystery of the film's by-line "He promised to love her forever….today" lies the possibility that he may well not.
Clent
The TARDIS arrives on Earth in a new ice age. The travellers make their way into a base where scientists, commanded by Leader Clent, are using an ioniser device to combat the advance of a glacier.
Harold Crossley is a barrister and respected intellectual, but proves no match to his scheming young wife
Lt. David Harper
James Mason and John Mills star in this comedy-drama about a tough colonel and a refined captain who clashed during the war, and continue their personal battle in peace-time Tahiti.
Skinner
A struggling singer and his band befriend an heiress who, against the wishes of her father, is searching for the lover who she has been forbidden to see and with whom she is hoping to elope.
Charles
A British business tycoon is surprised to discover his teenage daughter is being courted by a mysterious young man.
Henderson
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.
Estate Agent
Alan Dobie plays a convict who is bequeathed a set of seven keys by a fellow prisoner. After discovering that the deceased was an embezzler who stole £20,000 that was never recovered; he sets out to find the cash after finishing the last three months of his sentence. However he must first solve the mystery of which locks the keys fit, and run the gauntlet of the police and a number of gangsters who are after him and the money.
Sub Lt. Brown
After falling in love with an American woman, Virginia Killain, who is engaged to another man, British Naval Commander Max Easton, hatches a plan that will get him enough money to support Virginia in the lifestyle she is accustomed to. Easton's plan is to disappear for a time making it seem that he has defected to the Soviets taking important Naval secrets from his job at the Admiralty and to return and sue the newspapers for slander. Not everything goes as planned for Commander Easton.
Cypher Clerk
In 1942 Britain was clinging to the island of Malta since it was critical to keeping Allied supply lines open. The Axis also wanted it for their own supply lines. Plenty of realistic reenactments and archival combat footage as the British are beseiged and try to fight off the Luftwaffe. Against this background, a RAF reconnaissance photographer's romance with a local girl is endangered as he tries to plot enemy movements.