Stratford Johns
Nascimento : 1925-09-22, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
Morte : 2002-01-29
Butler
Eric Idle estrela com Rick Moranis, Barbara Hershey, Catherine Zeta-Jones e John Cleese, esta doida brincadeira que o Los Angeles Times chamou de “irreverente, divertida de assistir… matadora!”.
Em uma festa selvagem nos anos 60, o bebê Thomas Henry Butterfly Rainbow Peace é acidentalmente trocado por seus ricos pais hippies. O herdeiro real é criado por uma pobre família paquistanesa, enquanto o herdeiro errado cresce na América, com uma colher de prata na boca.
Quando Tommy Patel descobre que ele, não Henry Martin, é o verdadeiro Duque de Bournemouth, faz de tudo para recuperar o que perdeu! Felizmente, para Henry, Tommy é um assassino sem habilidades. Infelizmente, para ambos, o desleixado advogado de Tommy, Shadgrind, é um pouquinho melhor! Junte a isso uma duquesa ninfomaníaca, uma golpista, mais vários malucos, e você terá mais uma comédia para lá de engraçada e original.
Home Secretary
1992 BBC adaptation of the Joseph Conrad novel of 1907 concerning the mostly inactive spy Alfred Verloc, who is ordered by his superior Mr Vladimir to carry out a terrorist act. Verloc reluctantly plans the operation, seeking help from The Professor. Verloc is also an informant for the police and the Assistant Commissioner and Chief Inspector Heat add additional pressure on Verloc and his attempts to carry out his plan. Verloc’s subsequent actions gravely affect his wife who is devoted to her mentally unbalanced brother Stevie.
Stanley Caspian
A strangler known as the Kenbourne Killer has been murdering streetwalkers for 25 years. The police set out to track him down.
Clive
A lone hitch hiker, marooned near a housing estate, has a dramatic effect on the lives of those around him.
Mr. Groves
Drama set around the kidnapping of a footballer.
Arnold
When Marjorie's husband of 20 years dies of a brain tumour, she's hit financially as well as emotionally. The money she makes packing tights in a factory isn't enough to cover her rent, and her TV is repossessed. Soon after the funeral she meets Arnold, a wealthy pub landlord, who squires her to the local Conservative Club ball in an effort to cheer her up. Life with Arnold promises not only companionship but undreamt-of luxury, but Marjorie's friends and family do not necessarily approve.
Peters
Angus Flint é um arqueólogo que vêm para escavar na pousada Bed & Breakfast, dirigida pelas irmãs Trent. Até que estranhos acontecimentos começam a atormentá-lo...
Herod / Alfred Taylor
London, England, November 5th, 1892, Guy Fawkes Night. The famous playwright Oscar Wilde and his lover Lord Alfred Douglas discreetly go to a luxury brothel where the owner, Alfred Taylor, has prepared a surprise for the renowned author: a private and very special performance of his play Salome, banned by the authorities, in which Taylor himself and the peculiar inhabitants of the exclusive establishment will participate.
Rich Man
The Little Match Girl is a short story by Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen. The story is about a dying child's hopes and dreams, and was first published in 1845. This adaptation was made for Harlech TV and broadcast on 28th December 1986 and starred Twiggy and Roger Daltrey, and features the song 'Mistletoe and Wine' which became a Christmas number one for Cliff Richard in 1988, the biggest selling record of that year.
Mr. Plumb
Banerjee stars as Ram Das, a jobless Indian man who, tired of life in Calcutta, steals money from his father in order to afford a passage to Britain and while there, falls in love with a white woman.
Reg Sampson
In the throes of a midlife crisis, a man buys a new Jaguar, and it immediately becomes his new love. What he doesn't know is that his wife is as attracted to the Jaguar salesman as he is to the car.
Mustapha El Ali
A group of mercenaries is hired to spring Rudolf Hess from Spandau Prison in Berlin.
Morrie Conley
Ruth Ellis lives with her ten-year old son Andy next to a night club. One night she meets David Blakely, and they start a love affair. However, for David with his upper-class background, it is impossible to uphold the relationship. He breaks up with her, something which makes Ellis, obsessed by him, very upset.
Uncle Walter
The two-part TV movie Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil crystallizes that evil by concentrating on two Berlin brothers. In 1931, Helmut Hoffman a brilliant student and self-styled opportunist, joins Hitler's SS. At the same time, his younger brother Karl, a top athlete and idealist, becomes a chauffeur for the "S.A.".
Mr Moon
Play based on Brian Patten's book. Local children and retired detective Moon band together to protect a leprechaun from the investigations of the local police.
Monarch
The Doctor and his companions arrive on a spaceship headed for Earth, populated by natives of Earth from various different eras and commanded by the leaders of the Urbankan race. What are the Urbankans' intentions when they reach Earth?
Harry Pinto
Big screen spin-off of the Seventies sitcom. Mildred Roper is determined to make husband George celebrate their wedding anniversary in style, at a posh hotel in London. However, upon arrival George is mistaken by a gangland criminal for a rival hitman, and soon the Ropers find themselves up to their necks in trouble on the wrong side of the law!
Ismail
Na celebração do 168.º aniversário de Fu Manchu é estragada quando um infeliz lacaio derrama o elixir vitae de regressão da idade de Fu. Fu envia os lacaios para reunir os ingredientes para um novo lote do elixir, começando com o diamante "Estrela de Leningrado", roubado de uma exposição soviética em Washington, D.C. O FBI envia os agentes Capone e Williams a Inglaterra para conferenciar com Nayland Smith, especialista em Fu.
Chief Commisioner Blocker
John Cleese is hilarious as the descendant of Sherlock Holmes in this modern detective drama of international power politics and intrigue. Unlike his illustrious grandfather however, he only succeeds in bungling every job he organizes. Also stars Arthur Lowe as the "bionic" grandson of Dr. Watson, Stratford Johns as the Commissioner of Police, and Connie Booth as Mrs. Hudson.
President Bradshaw
O filme narra os feitos de Oliver Cromwell que liderou as forças do Parlamento de Inglaterra durante a Guerra Civil Inglesa e, mais tarde com o título de Lord Protetor, dirigiu a Grã Bretanha e Irlanda em meados do século XVII. Um elenco cheio estrelas cinematográficas, com Richard Harris como Cromwell e Alec Guinness como o Rei Carlos I da Inglaterra.
Warrant Officer
Phineas T. Barnum and friends finance the first flight to the moon but find the task a little above them. They attempt to blast their rocket into orbit from a massive gun barrel built into the side of a Welsh mountain, but money troubles, spies and saboteurs ensure that the plan is doomed before it starts...
Station Sergeant
A slapstick comedy about two workmen delivering planks to a building site. This is done with music and a sort of "wordless dialogue" which consists of a few mumbled sounds to convey the appropriate emotion.
The Voice (voice)
The all-girl school foil an attempt by train robbers to recover two and a half million pounds hidden in their school.
Bates
Charles Hilary is in love with Kathy Forrester, a beautiful television personality, but is married to Louise, an alcoholic with as many lovers as whisky bottles. His pleas for a divorce are met with threats and abuse. "You'll have to murder me first", Louise tells him and three hours later she is found dead, shot with her husband's pistol. When Charles is arrested, Kathy desperately sets to work to prove his innocence.
Mayor
Serjeant Musgrave and his small band of men arrive in an impoverished northern coal town, ostensibly on a recruiting drive.....but their intentions are very different, and will have repercussion's on the town for years to come.
Farmer
Seven-year-olds Michael and Rachel are best friends who do everything together and who have vowed to remain friends "forever and ever and can't be parted for never and never". Unfortunately, the society that Michael and Rachel live in is one of religious intolerance. The fact that Michael is Irish Catholic and Rachel is Jewish is a point of conflict for just about everyone in the community.
Lawson
A renowned safecracker and his crew try to rob a bank by entering the vault through the sewer system.
Police Constable (uncredited)
A Liverpool juvenile liaison officer struggles with a young and dangerous pyromaniac.
Second Detective
Based on the true story of Oberleutnant Franz von Werra, the only german prisoner of war captured in Britain to escape back to Germany during the Second World War.
Police Constable
Having been sent a picture of her husband, a war hero killed in France, Meg Elgin is led to believe he is still alive and arranges a meeting at a London railway station. When she arrives there with the police accompanying her, she catches sight of a man in the distance wearing an old coat of her husband's. When he is pursued and captured, he turns out to be Duds Morrison a former soldier and out-of-work actor recently let out of prison. He refuses to tell them anything, and having nothing they can charge him with, the police release him. His interest aroused by the pictures sent to Meg, her new fiancé Geoffrey Leavitt follows Morrison and tries to demand an answer from him about his sudden appearance masquerading as Meg’s dead husband.
Constable (uncredited)
Scotland Yard detectives attempt to solve a spate of safe robberies across England beginning with clues found at the latest burglary in London. The film is notable for using a police procedural style made popular by Ealing in their 1950 film The Blue Lamp. It is known in the US as The Third Key.
PC Coleman
This movie debut for saucy British TV comic Benny Hill has Benny leaving his job as a sweeper after winning some money. He becomes a private detective and investigates a plot to assassinate British scientists.
Security Guard (uncredited)
Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians.
Garage Worker (uncredited)
After World War II the crew of a motor gunboat join together to buy their old vessel and go into business for themselves. This may sound like a laudable scheme, but the business they choose to go into is smuggling.