Alan Howard
Birthday: Born in 1937-08-05 in London, England, UK
Deathday: 2015-02-14
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Alan MacKenzie Howard, CBE, (5 August 1937–14 February 2015) was an English actor known for his roles on stage, television and film. He was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1966 to 1983, and played leading roles at the Royal National Theatre between 1992 and 2000. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alan Howard, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Midsomer Murders
Character: Owen August
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty. ...
Foyle's War
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As WW2 rages around the world, DCS Foyle fights his own war on the home-front as he investigates crimes on the south coast of England. Foyle's War opens in southern England in the year 1940. Later series sees the retired detective working as an MI5 agent operating in the aftermath of the war....
Maigret
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BBC series based on the novels by Georges Simenon which starred Rupert Davies as Inspector Maigret, a French police detective who preferred to watch and listen in order to solve crimes. The series ran from 1960-63 on British television....
The BBC Television Shakespeare
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The BBC Television Shakespeare is a series of British television adaptations of the plays of William Shakespeare, created by Cedric Messina and produced by BBC Television. It was transmitted in the UK from 3 December 1978 to 27 April 1985 and spanned seven series. Development of the series began in 1975 when Messina saw that Glamis Castle would make a perfect location for an adaptation of Shakespeare's play As You Like It. On returning to London, he envisioned an entire series devoted exclusivel...
Death in Holy Orders
Character: Father Sebastian Morell
Detective Adam Dalgliesh investigates the death of a young ordinand who died in mysterious circumstances....
Sherlock Holmes
Character: The Duke of Holdernesse
Sherlock Holmes uses his abilities to take on cases by private clients and those that the Scotland Yard are unable to solve, along with his friend Dr. Watson....
Notorious Woman
Character: Prosper Merimée
The incredible life of novelist George Sand is explored with a particular focus on her romance with the famed musician Frédéric Chopin....
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Character: Benedict Farley / Hugo Cornworthy
From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions....
A Perfect Spy
Character: Jack Brotherhood
The life of British MI6 spy Magnus Pym, from his school days to his mysterious disappearance....
Witchcraft
Character: Alan Oakfield
The director of a a film about witchcraft gets rather carried away and endangers the lives of his cast....
Playing Shakespeare
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John Barton holds a master class in how to play Shakespeare, using members of the RSC doing scenes, sonnets, and commentary as prime examples....
Horizon
Character: Maurice Wilkins
Horizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before....
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Oxford Blues
Character: Simon Rutledge
A young American hustler in Las Vegas spots a rich English Lady. Smitten, he pursues her to England, where his only chance of getting together with her is to enroll in Oxford and join the rowing team....
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
Character: Michael
The wife of an abusive criminal finds solace in the arms of a kind regular guest in her husband's restaurant....
The Return of the Musketeers
Character: Oliver Cromwell
It's 1649: Mazarin hires the impoverished D'Artagnan to find the other musketeers: Cromwell has overthrown the English king, so Mazarin fears revolt, particularly from the popular Beaufort. Porthos, bored with riches and wanting a title, signs on, but Aramis, an abbé, and Athos, a brawler raising an intellectual son, assist Beaufort in secret. When they fail to halt Beaufort's escape from prison, the musketeers are expendable, and Mazarin sends them to London to rescue Charles I. They are also p...
An Audience with Mel Brooks
Character: Self (uncredited)
Mel Brooks delivers an enjoyable hour of comic diversion with his lovely actress-wife Anne Bancroft, writer comedian Ronny Graham and British Shakespearean actor Jonathan Pryce. Brooks Spontaneous humor, social commentaries and zany sketches leave the audience rolling in the aisles and will leave you wanting more of Mel!...
Life Story
Character: Maurice Wilkins
Watson and Crick race to find the structure of DNA before Linus Pauling, Maurice Wilkins, or Rosalind Franklin can find the key to unlocking the secret....
Strapless
Character: Mr. Cooper
An expatriate American doctor in London allows herself to lighten up when her freewheeling younger sister and a mysterious man enter her life. Her inhibitions released, the beautiful doctor learns that freedom has its own price....
Death Has A Bad Reputation
Character: Sam McCready
A British agent is chasing after famous terrorist Carlos when he resurfaces in Europe....
Work Is a 4-Letter Word
Character: Reverend Mort
Dreamlike satire about a young man who resists getting a job at the lone employing conglomerate in his dreary industrial town, but changes his mind when he discovers the plant's boiler room has the perfect climate to assist him with his pet horticultural (fungal) project....
The Americanization of Emily
Character: Port Ensign
American sailor Charlie Madison falls for a pretty Englishwoman while trying to avoid a senseless and dangerous D-Day mission concocted by a deranged admiral....
The Way of the World
Character: Mirabell
In order for Millamant and Mirabell to get married and receive Millamant's full dowry, Mirabell must receive the blessing of Millamant's aunt, Lady Wishfort. Unfortunately, she is a very bitter lady, who despises Mirabell and wants her own nephew, Sir Wilfull, to wed Millamant....
The Dog It Was That Died
Character: Purvis
Rupert Purvis jumps off a bridge onto a dog, causing problems for Blair, his superior at MI5. Blair must convince Hogbin, the agent who's been tailing Purvis, of which side Purvis is really on--once he finds out what it is....
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Character: The Ring (voice)
Young hobbit Frodo Baggins, after inheriting a mysterious ring from his uncle Bilbo, must leave his home in order to keep it from falling into the hands of its evil creator. Along the way, a fellowship is formed to protect the ringbearer and make sure that the ring arrives at its final destination: Mt. Doom, the only place where it can be destroyed....
A Better Class of Person
Character: Tom Osborne
Adaptation of John Osborne's autobiography about his early life, showing his much-loved but frail father and combative relationship with his mother....
Just Another Secret
Character: Sam McCready
An American intelligence agent uncovers a plot to assassinate Soviet Premier Gorbachev just at the time when glasnost is coming into place....
The Heroes of Telemark
Character: Oli
Set in German-occupied Norway, resistance fighter Knut Straud enlists the reluctant physicist Rolf Pedersen in an effort to destroy the German heavy water production plant in rural Telemark....
The Tragedy of Coriolanus
Character: Coriolanus
A banished hero of Rome allies with a sworn enemy to take his revenge on the city....
A Casualty of War
Character: Sam McCready
David Threlfall stars as Tom Rowse, a retired British secret service agent turned thriller novelist who is brought back into the world of espionage for one last job. The mission - foiling a Libyan plot to supply the IRA with a massive shipment of high-tech weapons in order to wreak revenge upon the UK for their support and co-operation with the US during the 1986 bombing of Libya and the attempted assassination of Colonel Gaddafi ....
A Little Piece of Sunshine
Character: Sam McCready
Sunshine, an idyllic and almost forgotten island under British rule, is shortly to become independent. But a few days before this event is to take place, the British governor of the island is shot. Her Majesty's secret service is called in and Sam McCready asks Desmond Hannah of Scotland Yard to take charge of the case....
The Price of the Bride
Character: Sam McCready
After a KGB agent defects to the US, the CIA has the job of not only taking from him his dowry of information (ie. the price of the bride), but also making sure he isn't a 'plant' to uncover secrets from us. All of this is complicated when it is suspected that another man is the real agent, and the defector but a decoy....
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Character: The Ring (voice)
As armies mass for a final battle that will decide the fate of the world--and powerful, ancient forces of Light and Dark compete to determine the outcome--one member of the Fellowship of the Ring is revealed as the noble heir to the throne of the Kings of Men. Yet, the sole hope for triumph over evil lies with a brave hobbit, Frodo, who, accompanied by his loyal friend Sam and the hideous, wretched Gollum, ventures deep into the very dark heart of Mordor on his seemingly impossible quest to dest...
Heart to Heart
Character: Parliamentary Private Secretary
A television interviewer is determined to get a coup on a dodgy cabinet minister....
David Copperfield
Character: Mr. Spenlow
After the death of his father and a second wedding of his mother, David Copperfield suffers from his tyrannical stepfather, Mr. Murdstone. The mother dies shortly after the death of another child, whereupon Mr. Murdstone sends David to London, where he has to work for a starvation wage.Here he makes some new friends, but soon flees from the capital of England to his aunt Traddles in Canterbury, where he is adopted by her....
Victim
Character: Frank
A web of blackmail and murder attracts the attention of a barrister with a seemingly idyllic life, threatening to derail his career on the path of success....
Royal Flash
Character: Duchy Chamberlain
Cowardly rogue Harry Flashman's (Malcolm McDowell) schemes to gain entry to the royal circles of 19th-century Europe go nowhere until he meets a pair of devious nobles with their own agenda. At their urging, Flashman agrees to re-create himself as a bogus Prussian nobleman to woo a beautiful duchess. But the half-baked plan quickly comes unraveled, and he's soon on the run from several new enemies who are all calling for the rapscallion's head....
Da Vinci's War
Character: Governor
A veteran and his war buddies hunt for the killer of the veteran's sister....