Richard Griffiths

Richard Griffiths

Richard Thomas Griffiths (July 31, 1947 – March 28, 2013) was an English actor of film, television, and stage. For his performance in the stage play The History Boys, Griffiths won a Tony Award, a Laurence Olivier Award, the Drama Desk Award and the Outer Critics Circle Award. For the 2006 film adaptation, Griffiths was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. He played Vernon Dursley in the Harry Potter films (2001-2010) and Great Uncle Matthew Brown "Gum" in the BBC film Ballet Shoes (2007). He also portrayed Uncle Monty in Withnail and I (1987), and Henry Crabbe in Pie in the Sky (1994–1997). Earlier in his career, he had supporting roles in such critically acclaimed films as Chariots of Fire (1981), The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), Gandhi (1982), and The Naked Gun 2+1⁄2: The Smell of Fear (1991). In his later career he appeared in Sleepy Hollow (1999), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005), Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011) and in Martin Scorsese's Hugo (2011).

  • Popularity : 10.923
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1947-07-31
  • Place of Birth : Thornaby-on-Tees, North Yorkshire, England, UK
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Richard Griffiths Movies

  • 2002
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    Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

    Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

    7.72 2002 HD

    Cars fly, trees fight back, and a mysterious house-elf comes to warn Harry Potter at the start of his second year at Hogwarts. Adventure and danger...

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  • 2001
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    Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

    Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

    7.913 2001 HD

    Harry Potter has lived under the stairs at his aunt and uncle's house his whole life. But on his 11th birthday, he learns he's a powerful...

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  • 2004
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    Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

    Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

    8.018 2004 HD

    Year three at Hogwarts means new fun and challenges as Harry learns the delicate art of approaching a Hippogriff, transforming shape-shifting...

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  • 2007
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    Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

    Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

    7.678 2007 HD

    Returning for his fifth year of study at Hogwarts, Harry is stunned to find that his warnings about the return of Lord Voldemort have been ignored....

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  • 2008
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    Bedtime Stories

    Bedtime Stories

    6.2 2008 HD

    Skeeter Bronson is a down-on-his-luck guy who's always telling bedtime stories to his niece and nephew. But his life is turned upside down when the...

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  • 2011
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    Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

    Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

    6.6 2011 HD

    Captain Jack Sparrow crosses paths with a woman from his past, and he's not sure if it's love -- or if she's a ruthless con artist who's using him to...

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  • 1999
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    Sleepy Hollow

    Sleepy Hollow

    7.2 1999 HD

    Skeptical young detective Ichabod Crane gets transferred to the hamlet of Sleepy Hollow, New York, where he is tasked with investigating the...

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  • 1991
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    King Ralph

    King Ralph

    5.347 1991 HD

    As the only relative in line to ascend the Royal throne, a down-on-his-luck American slob must learn the ways of the English.

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  • 2008
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    Ballet Shoes

    Ballet Shoes

    6.4 2008 HD

    An unusual explorer named Gum and his kindly niece adopt three orphans -- Pauline, Petrova and Posy -- and raise them as sisters in 1930s London. But...

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  • 1977
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    Twelve Off the Belt

    Twelve Off the Belt

    1 1977 HD

    Grand Challenge pie-eating contest : ' Winner finishes most whole pies off the belt in half-an-hour. Ties decided on a raw cabbage '. The Bedworth...

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  • 2000
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    Vatel

    Vatel

    6.09 2000 HD

    In 1671, with war brewing with Holland, a penniless prince invites Louis XIV to three days of festivities at a chateau in Chantilly. The prince wants...

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  • 2006
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    The History Boys

    The History Boys

    6.6 2006 HD

    The story of an unruly class of bright, funny history students at a Yorkshire grammar school in pursuit of an undergraduate place at Oxford or...

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  • 2010
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    Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

    Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

    7.8 2010 HD

    Harry, Ron and Hermione walk away from their last year at Hogwarts to find and destroy the remaining Horcruxes, putting an end to Voldemort's bid for...

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  • 1982
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    Britannia Hospital

    Britannia Hospital

    6.4 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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  • 2004
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    Stage Beauty

    Stage Beauty

    6.7 2004 HD

    Humble Maria, who outfits top London theater star Ned Kynaston, takes none of the credit for the male actor's success at playing women. And because...

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  • 2008
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    A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa

    A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa

    5.9 2008 HD

    When Gonzo forgets to mail three letters to Santa, he convinces Kermit and the gang to help him deliver the notes to the North Pole. Along the way,...

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  • 1992
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    Blame It on the Bellboy

    Blame It on the Bellboy

    5.3 1992 HD

    Mike Lawton, Maurice Horton, and Melvin Orton are three men who come to Venice. One of them is a hit man sent to take out a mobster. Another is a...

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  • 1987
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    Withnail & I

    Withnail & I

    7.3 1987 HD

    Two out-of-work actors -- the anxious, luckless Marwood and his acerbic, alcoholic friend, Withnail -- spend their days drifting between their...

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  • 2006
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    Venus

    Venus

    6.589 2006 HD

    Maurice is an aging veteran actor who becomes taken with Jessie, the grandniece of his closest friend. When Maurice tries to soften the petulant and...

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  • 1995
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    Funny Bones

    Funny Bones

    6.5 1995 HD

    Tommy Fawkes wants to be a successful comedian. After his Las Vegas debut is a failure, he returns to Blackpool where his father—also a...

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  • 2011
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    Hugo

    Hugo

    7.175 2011 HD

    Orphaned and alone except for an uncle, Hugo Cabret lives in the walls of a train station in 1930s Paris. Hugo's job is to oil and maintain the...

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  • 1984
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    A Private Function

    A Private Function

    6.3 1984 HD

    In the summer of 1947, Britain prepares to commemorate the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Phillip. To get around food-rationing laws, Dr....

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  • 1986
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    Shanghai Surprise

    Shanghai Surprise

    4.3 1986 HD

    Glendon Wasey is a fortune hunter looking for a fast track out of China. Gloria Tatlock is a missionary nurse seeking the curing powers of opium for...

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  • 2005
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    Opa!

    Opa!

    5.4 2005 HD

    A modern day treasure hunt for a mystical relic that turns into a love story for all time.

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  • 1989
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    Goldeneye

    Goldeneye

    6 1989 HD

    British writer Ian Fleming's life and loves suggest that of his spy-novel hero, secret agent James Bond.

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  • 2012
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    Private Peaceful

    Private Peaceful

    6.6 2012 HD

    Set in the fields of Devon and the WW1 battlefields of Flanders, two brothers fall for the same girl while contending with the pressures of their...

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  • 1982
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    The World Cup: A Captain's Tale

    The World Cup: A Captain's Tale

    7 1982 HD

    The true story of the First world football competition, won by a team comprised of miners from Durham.

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  • 1982
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    A Light Snack

    A Light Snack

    5.8 1982 HD

    A window cleaner fancies a sausage roll, but all is not well in the sausage roll factory.

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  • 2014
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    Showing Up

    Showing Up

    9.2 2014 HD

    An unprecedented look at the audition, compiled from more than 50 interviews with notable artists including Kristin Chenoweth, Richard Griffiths, Zoe...

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  • 2010
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    National Theatre Live: The Habit of Art

    National Theatre Live: The Habit of Art

    8 2010 HD

    National Theatre Live’s 2010 broadcast of Alan Bennett’s acclaimed play The Habit of Art, with Richard Griffiths, Alex Jennings and...

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  • 1983
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    Gorky Park

    Gorky Park

    6.3 1983 HD

    Police Inspector Renko tries to solve the case of three bodies found in Moscow's Gorky Park but finds his attempts to solve the crime impeded by his...

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  • 1994
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    Guarding Tess

    Guarding Tess

    5.994 1994 HD

    Doug is a Secret Service Agent who has just completed his stint in charge protecting Tess Carlisle—the widow of a former U.S. President, and a...

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  • 1978
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    The Comedy of Errors

    The Comedy of Errors

    8.8 1978 HD

    The Royal Shakespeare Company act (and sing and dance!) Shakespeare's play about two sets of identical twins, separated at birth and brought together...

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  • 1998
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    Ted & Ralph

    Ted & Ralph

    6.6 1998 HD

    One-off comedy drama featuring characters from award-winning BBC sketch series 'The Fast Show'. Ralph Mayhew (Charlie Higson) lives alone in a faded...

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  • 1987
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    Casanova

    Casanova

    4.4 1987 HD

    The life story of an 18th century womanizer who's arrested, not so much for his crimes, but because he's viewed as an undesirable by the husbands and...

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  • 1982
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    Gandhi

    Gandhi

    7.6 1982 HD

    In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian...

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  • 1977
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    It's Only Rock 'n' Roll

    It's Only Rock 'n' Roll

    1 1977 HD

    A rock star is kidnapped at the end of a concert.The record company ask the question is he worth more dead than alive?

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  • 1974
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    Norma

    Norma

    1 1974 HD

    Norma is a woman who appears to be leading a very complicated emotional life; she's involved with no less than four men. Michael is the friend she...

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  • 1979
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    Afternoon Off

    Afternoon Off

    1 1979 HD

    Lee, a Chinese man, works as a waiter in a hotel in England, despite speaking very little English. Told that a girl called Iris might be interested...

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  • 1992
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    Mr. Wakefield's Crusade

    Mr. Wakefield's Crusade

    4.5 1992 HD

    Darkly comic murder mystery adapted from Bernice Rubens 's Booker Prize-winning bestseller. Luke Wakefield is not so much a knight in shining armour...

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  • 2003
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    The Brides in the Bath

    The Brides in the Bath

    5.9 2003 HD

    Dramatisation of the real-life case of George Joseph Smith who was hanged in 1915 for the murder of his three wives, each of whom he killed in turn...

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  • 1984
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    Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes

    Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes

    6.331 1984 HD

    A shipping disaster in the 19th Century has stranded a man and woman in the wilds of Africa. The lady is pregnant, and gives birth to a son in their...

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  • 1981
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    Ragtime

    Ragtime

    7 1981 HD

    A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other...

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  • 1991
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    The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear

    The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear

    6.8 1991 HD

    Bumbling lieutenant Frank Drebin is out to foil the big boys in the energy industry, who intend to suppress technology that will put them out of...

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  • 2005
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    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

    6.663 2005 HD

    Mere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, Arthur Dent is swept off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a...

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  • 1980
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    Superman II

    Superman II

    6.7 1980 HD

    Three escaped criminals from the planet Krypton test the Man of Steel's mettle. Led by General Zod, the Kryptonians take control of the White House...

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  • 1989
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    The Movie Life of George

    The Movie Life of George

    1 1989 HD

    When EMI refused to produce Monty Python's Life of Brian, George Harrison founded Handmade Pictures so that he could see the film. This is the story...

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  • 1976
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    It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet

    It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet

    6 1976 HD

    Based on James Herriot's books about life as a 1930s veterinarian in Yorkshire, John Alderson plays the kindly doctor who ministers to animals in...

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  • 2002
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    Jeffrey Archer: The Truth

    Jeffrey Archer: The Truth

    3.5 2002 HD

    A satirical look at the 'secret' TRUE life of Jeffrey Archer. The Truth, the whole truth and everything BUT the truth.

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  • 2010
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    Jackboots on Whitehall

    Jackboots on Whitehall

    4.9 2010 HD

    A satirical alternative history of World War II where the Nazis seize London and England must band together to prevent a full on invasion.

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  • 1980
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    Breaking Glass

    Breaking Glass

    6.9 1980 HD

    Breaking Glass is the story of punk singer Kate and her meteoric rise to stardom. Starting out in the rock pubs of London, Kate, assisted by her...

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  • 1981
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    Chariots of Fire

    Chariots of Fire

    6.8 1981 HD

    In the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young runners train for the 1924 Paris Olympics. Eric Liddell, a...

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  • 1994
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    A Breed of Heroes

    A Breed of Heroes

    1 1994 HD

    In 1971, fresh-faced, eager for heroics, the young officers arrive in Belfast. Pelted with rocks by kids, sniped at by the IRA, they take refuge in...

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  • 1981
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    The French Lieutenant's Woman

    The French Lieutenant's Woman

    6.42 1981 HD

    In this story-within-a-story, Anna is an actress starring opposite Mike in a period piece about the forbidden love between their respective...

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  • 1976
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    Well Thank You, Thursday

    Well Thank You, Thursday

    1 1976 HD

    Miss Shepherd of the registry office is getting a new desk, but things don't go entirely as expected.

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  • 2013
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    About Time

    About Time

    7.919 2013 HD

    The night after another unsatisfactory New Year's party, Tim's father tells his son that the men in his family have always had the ability to travel...

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  • 1982
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    The Merry Wives of Windsor

    The Merry Wives of Windsor

    8 1982 HD

    When Sir John Falstaff decides that he wants to have a little fun he writes two letters to a pair of Window wives: Mistress Ford and Mistress Page....

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  • 2000
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    Sleepy Hollow: Behind the Legend

    Sleepy Hollow: Behind the Legend

    7 2000 HD

    A behind the scenes look at the making of Sleepy Hollow.

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  • 1992
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    The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends

    The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends

    8.5 1992 HD

    Classic tales of Peter Rabbit."Once upon a time there were four little rabbits, and their names were Flopsy, Mopsy, Cotton-tail and Peter." So begins...

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  • 2005
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    Princes in the Tower

    Princes in the Tower

    1 2005 HD

    Drama - The mystery surrounding the disappearance 12 year-old King Edward V and his brother Richard, Duke of York, has been the cause of speculation...

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  • 1981
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    Bergerac

    Bergerac

    6.4 1981 HD

    Bergerac is a British television show set on Jersey. Produced by the BBC in association with the Seven Network, and first screened on BBC1, it stars...

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  • 1994
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    Pie in the Sky

    Pie in the Sky

    8.4 1994 HD

    Pie in the Sky is a British offbeat police comedy drama programme starring Richard Griffiths and Maggie Steed, created by Andrew Payne and first...

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  • 2005
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    Bleak House

    Bleak House

    8.2 2005 HD

    The generous John Jarndyce, struggling with his own past, and his two young wards Richard and Ada, are all caught up, like Lady Dedlock, in the...

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  • 1982
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    Whoops Apocalypse

    Whoops Apocalypse

    7.2 1982 HD

    Whoops Apocalypse is a six-part 1982 British sitcom by Andrew Marshall and David Renwick, made by London Weekend Television for ITV. Marshall and...

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  • 1986
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    Boon

    Boon

    5.5 1986 HD

    Boon is a British television drama and modern-day western series starring Michael Elphick, David Daker, and later Neil Morrissey. It was created by...

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  • 1982
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    Countdown

    Countdown

    5.6 1982 HD

    The clock is ticking as contestants compete in games of lexical dexterity and numerical agility.

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  • 1987
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    Inspector Morse

    Inspector Morse

    7.8 1987 HD

    Inspector Morse is a detective drama based on Colin Dexter's series of Chief Inspector Morse novels. The series starred John Thaw as Chief Inspector...

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  • 1975
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    The Sweeney

    The Sweeney

    7.7 1975 HD

    Jack Regan, an unethical officer of the Flying Squad, uses unorthodox methods to pursue criminals with the help of his partner, George Carter.

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  • 1986
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    Lovejoy

    Lovejoy

    7.4 1986 HD

    The adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East Anglia. Within the trade, he has a reputation as a...

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  • 2000
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    Gormenghast

    Gormenghast

    7 2000 HD

    At the Castle of Gormenghast, the Groan family has ruled with dusty ceremony for more than seventy generations. A clever and ambitious new kitchen...

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  • 2002
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    TLC

    TLC

    4.5 2002 HD

    TLC is a darkly surreal farce-like sitcom set in a fictional NHS hospital called South Middlesex where coffee is traded like drugs and pretty much...

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  • 1982
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    Bird of Prey

    Bird of Prey

    5.5 1982 HD

    From its video game-inspired opening titles to its pervasive electronic music track, Bird of Prey went to great lengths to demonstrate its...

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  • 1983
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    The Cleopatras

    The Cleopatras

    3 1983 HD

    Eight-part drama covering the lives of the queens of Egypt from Cleopatra II in 145 BC to the death of the famous Cleopatra VII in 30 BC.

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  • 1978
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    BBC Television Shakespeare

    BBC Television Shakespeare

    5.2 1978 HD

    The BBC Television Shakespeare is a series of British television adaptations of the plays of William Shakespeare, created by Cedric Messina and...

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  • 1991
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    Pebble Mill

    Pebble Mill

    3.1 1991 HD

    Pebble Mill was a re-launched version of the 1970s daily chat show Pebble Mill (also known as Pebble Mill At One for a while) which aired on BBC1 in...

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  • 1987
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    Ffizz

    Ffizz

    1 1987 HD

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  • 1988
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    Kind of Living

    Kind of Living

    5 1988 HD

    Trevor Beasley (Richard Griffiths), a schoolteacher, has his head stuck firmly in the past, despite having a new house, a new job, and a new baby....

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  • 1981
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    Six Fifty-Five Special

    Six Fifty-Five Special

    1 1981 HD

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  • 1999
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    Hope and Glory

    Hope and Glory

    5 1999 HD

    Hope and Glory is a BBC television drama about a comprehensive school struggling with financial, staffing and disciplinary problems, and faced with...

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  • 1987
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    The Marksman

    The Marksman

    1 1987 HD

    Twelve-year-old Gordon Weaver is killed on waste-ground in Liverpool. His grandfather, Doyle, sends for the boy's father, who returns from Spain to...

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  • 1990
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    Perfect Scoundrels

    Perfect Scoundrels

    6 1990 HD

    Perfect Scoundrels first broadcast in 1990 on British television. A comedy-drama following two con-men doing their best to separate various people...

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  • 1979
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    Minder

    Minder

    6.7 1979 HD

    This comedy drama series featured Terry McCann, a former boxer with a conviction for G.B.H., and Arthur Daley, a second-hand car dealer with an eye...

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  • 1956
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    Tony Awards

    Tony Awards

    5 1956 HD

    The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The...

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  • 1956
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    Tony Awards

    Tony Awards

    5 1956 HD

    The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The...

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  • 1972
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    Crown Court

    Crown Court

    5 1972 HD

    Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the ITV network that ran from 1972, when the Crown Court...

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  • 1998
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    In the Red

    In the Red

    6.2 1998 HD

    A series of killings of bank managers has London in a turmoil, all the way up to Parliament. And the killer regularly calls about his handiwork, but...

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  • 1974
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    Village Hall

    Village Hall

    1 1974 HD

    Village Hall is a drama anthology series made by Granada between 1974 and 1975. It is entirely set in a village hall, with each episode highlighting...

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  • 1992
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    The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends

    The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends

    6.143 1992 HD

    Nine animated stories based on the original Peter Rabbit books by Beatrix Potter.

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  • 1978
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    An Audience with...

    An Audience with...

    5.3 1978 HD

    An Audience with... is a British entertainment television show produced by London Weekend Television, in which a host, usually a singer or comedian,...

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  • 1990
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    El C.I.D.

    El C.I.D.

    1 1990 HD

    Two British police officers uproot themselves and move to Spain. They watch ex-pat British mobsters.

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  • 2012
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    The Hollow Crown

    The Hollow Crown

    7.4 2012 HD

    A series of British television films featuring William Shakespeare's History Plays.

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  • 2011
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    Episodes

    Episodes

    7.2 2011 HD

    A British husband-and-wife comedy writing team travel to Hollywood to remake their successful British TV series, with disastrous results.

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