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Robert Lindsay

Birthday: Born in 1949-12-13 in Ilkeston, Derbyshire, England, UK

Deathday: Alive

Robert Lindsay Stevenson (born 13 December 1949), better known as Robert Lindsay, is an English actor known for his stage and television work, including appearances with the Royal Shakespeare Company, and in musical theatre, and his roles as Wolfie Smith in Citizen Smith, Captain Pellew in Hornblower and Ben Harper in My Family. He has won a BAFTA, a Tony Award and three Olivier Awards for his work. Courtesy of Wikipedia 

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Hornblower

Character: Sir Edward Pellew

Set during the 18th century Napoleonic Wars, Horatio Hornblower, a young and shy midshipman, rises through the ranks to become an admiral....

Space Race

Character:

The untold true story behind the Cold War race to put man into space....

G.B.H.

Character: Michael Murray

GBH was a seven-part British television drama written by Alan Bleasdale shown in the summer of 1991 on Channel 4. The protagonists were Michael Murray, the Militant tendency-supporting Labour leader of a city council in the North of England and Jim Nelson, the headmaster of a school for disturbed children. The series was controversial partly because Murray appeared to be based on Derek Hatton, former Deputy Leader of Liverpool City Council — in an interview in the G.B.H. DVD Bleasdale recounts ...

My Family

Character: Ben Harper

Ben Harper is a moderately successful family man and dentist. He is also undergoing a mid-life crisis and trying to cope with the bizarre reality of raising teenage children. His wife Susan seems quite happy, enjoys her job as a London tour guide, however at home her ability to find her way around a cookbook or pantry is less successful. Their three children Nick, Janey, and Michael are as different as chalk and cheese. Nick (19) is on his gap year, but doesn't get much further than the sofa or...

The One Show

Character: Self

A topical magazine-style daily television programme broadcast live on BBC One....

Tales from the Crypt

Character: Glynn Fennell

Cadaverous scream legend the Crypt Keeper is your macabre host for these forays of fright and fun based on the classic E.C. Comics tales from back in the day. So shamble up to the bar and pick your poison. Will it be an insane Santa on a personal slay ride? Honeymooners out to fulfill the "til death do we part" vow ASAP?...

Get Some In!

Character: Jakey Smith

Get Some In! is a British comedy series set in the 1950's that focused on the Royal Air Force National Service. The show was broadcast between 1975 and 1978 by Thames Television. Scripts were by John Esmonde and Bob Larbey, the team behind the BBC TV sitcom The Good Life. The programme drew its inspiration from late 1950s/early 1960s National Service situation-comedy The Army Game, and from nostalgic BBC TV sitcom Dad's Army, but the RAF setting gave it enough originality not to seem formulaic....

The Good Life

Character: Reform School Youth

Tom and Barbara Good escape the rat race and pursue a self-sufficient lifestyle in Surbiton, much to the concern, frustration and sometimes envy of their neighbours Margo and Jerry Leadbetter. Entitled ‘Good Neighbors’ when shown in the USA....

Who Do You Think You Are?

Character: Self

A British genealogy documentary series in which celebrities trace their ancestry, discovering secrets and surprises from their past....

Castaway 2000

Character: Narrator (voice)

36 volunteers spend the year 2000 on the island of Taransay finding out what happens when a cross-section of British people try to create a new society....

Citizen Smith

Character: Wolfie Smith

Classic BBC comedy starring Robert Lindsay as revolutionary leader Wolfie Smith of the Tooting Popular Front. Hoping to emulate his icons, Wolfie forms the Tooting Popular Front with a small group of his friends. However, he soon finds himself struggling to get his ambitious plans off the ground due to his laid back attitude and lack of organisation....

Absolutely Fabulous

Character: Pete

Set in the world of fashion and PR, immature fun-loving mother Edina Monsoon and her best friend Patsy drive Eddie's sensible daughter, Saffron, up the wall with their constant drug abuse and outrageous selfishness. Numerous in-jokes and heavy doses of cruel humour have made this series a cult hit in the UK and abroad....

Nightingales

Character: Carter

Nightingales is a British situation comedy set around the antics of three security guards working the night shift. It was written by Paul Makin and produced by Alomo Productions for Channel 4 in 1990....

Seven Wonders of the Industrial World

Character: Self - Narrator

Seven Wonders of the Industrial World is a 7-part British documentary/docudrama television miniseries that originally aired from 4 September 2003 to 16 October 2003 on BBC. The programme examines seven engineering feats that occurred during the Industrial Revolution....

Oliver Twist

Character: Fagin

Oliver Twist is a 1999 television mini-series produced by ITV based on the book Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens....

Jake's Progress

Character: Jamie Diadoni

Jamie looks after his son Jake while his wife works all hours....

Natural World

Character:

Natural World is a nature documentary television series broadcast annually on BBC Two and regarded by the BBC as its flagship natural history brand. It is currently the longest-running series in its genre on British television, with more than 400 episodes broadcast since its inception in 1983. Natural World is produced by the BBC Natural History Unit in Bristol, but individual programmes can be in-house productions, collaborative productions with other broadcasters or films made and distributed...

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...

Seconds Out

Character: Pete Dodds

Pete Dodds is a boxer and a bit of a wide boy who messes about in the ring, but has potential. Tony Sprake becomes his manager and Dave Locket his trainer....

Spy

Character: The Examiner

When an underachieving single father inadvertently becomes an MI5 agent, he must keep his government job a secret while battling his ex-wife for custody of their precocious son....

Jericho

Character: D.I. Michael Jericho

Jericho is an ITV British crime drama series which was transmitted in 2005. It was created and written by Stewart Harcourt and starred Robert Lindsay as Detective Inspector Michael Jericho, who is loved by the public but who is embarrassed by his status as a hero. The series was set in London in 1958....

Confessional

Character: Thomas Kelly

A secretive terrorist commits crimes to disrupt the peace process between the Irish and the Brits. Both sides want him dead. When he decides to assassinate the Pope and blame it on the U.K., only a musician with a secret past can stop him....

The World's Most Beautiful Landscapes

Character: Narrator

Take a breathtaking visual journey through some of the world's most beautiful and extraordinary landscapes, to admire the wonders and encounter the wildlife, geology and the rich history of its people....

Tate Britain's Great Art Walks

Character: Self

Danny Baker, Simon Callow, Richard E Grant, Cerys Matthews, Miriam Margolyes and Michael Sheen follow in the footsteps of their favourite British artists....

Atlantis

Character: Daedalus

A fantasy drama set in a world of legendary heroes and mythical creatures. Far from home and desperate for answers, Jason washes up on the shores of an ancient land. A mysterious place; a world of bull leaping, of snake haired goddesses and of palaces so vast it was said they were built by giants - this is the city of Atlantis. Aided by his two new friends, Pythagoras and Hercules, Jason embarks on a voyage of discovery, and salvation, which sees him brush shoulders with Medusa, come face to fac...

Extras

Character: Robert Lindsay

Andy Millman gave up his day job five years ago in the hope of achieving the big time, but he’s yet to land a speaking part, let alone saunter down the red carpet to pick up an Oscar. He remains optimistic however, as rubbing shoulders with the A-list on-set only serves to reinforce his belief that the big time is just a job or two away....

Galavant

Character: Chester Wormwood

Once upon a time, the dashing hero, Prince Galavant lost the love of his life, Madalena, to the evil King Richard. Now, our fallen hero is ready to take revenge and restore his “happily ever after.” But it won't be without a few twists and turns along the way in this fairytale musical....

An Audience with...

Character: Self

An Audience with... is a British entertainment television show produced by London Weekend Television, in which a host, usually a singer or comedian, performs for an invited audience of celebrity guests, interspersed with questions from the audience, in a light hearted revue/tribute style....

Generation Z

Character: Morgan

Flesh-eating baby-boomers get a taste for teenagers in Ben Wheatley's darkly comic, outlandishly gory, zombie-horror satire....

The Wimbledon Poisoner

Character: Henry Farr

Henry Farr, a Wimbledon solicitor desperate to rid himself of his wife, settles on murder as a solution to his problem....

Wogan

Character: Self

Chat show hosted by Terry Wogan, featuring live studio interviews with famous and notable personalities....

Have I Got a Bit More News for You

Character: Self - Presenter

Based on the week’s news and fronted by guest hosts, this extended version of the satirical news quiz features more of the stuff that wouldn't fit into the regular programme....

Walks with My Dog

Character: Self

Celebrities take a stroll in the great British outdoors with their faithful hound....

The Secret Life of Owls

Character: Self - Narrator (voice)

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Genius

Character: Hermann Einstein

The life stories of history's greatest minds. From their days as young adults to their final years we see their discoveries, loves, relationships, causes, flaws and genius....

Give us a Break

Character: Mickey Noades

Geoff McQueen's classic BBC comedy drama set in the wheeler-dealing world of London's snooker halls starring two of Britain's most popular actors. Micky Noades (Robert Lindsay) describes himself as 'an overall concepts man'. He is an ace promoter, the only problem is he has nothing to promote. Enter his brother-in-law Mo (Paul McGann) with one redeeming feature: his outstanding talent at snooker. Created by Geoff McQueen this vintage British comedy drama gave Paul McGann his breakthrough role, a...

Monty Python's Best Bits (Mostly)

Character: Self

This series is presented by self-confessed Python nut Hugh Bonneville, each show with a group of five famous comedians remembering their favourite Python moments. Each guest chooses a sketch (or two) and it's played with their comments.....

Sherwood

Character: Franklin Warner

Old grudges, new rivalries. A tangled web of murder and revenge spirals in a fractured Nottinghamshire mining community. Powerful drama with Lesley Manville and David Morrissey....

McDonald & Dodds

Character: Max Crockett

Two detectives, DCI McDonald and DS Dodds, who seemingly have nothing in common, are thrown together and forge a rumbustious friendship and entertaining partnership....

Parkinson

Character: Self

Michael Parkinson returns for a second run of his iconic talk show....

The Enchanted World of Brambly Hedge

Character: Narrator (voice)

The Enchanted World of Brambly Hedge is a stop-motion animated series based on the Brambly Hedge books by Jill Barklem. The show was produced by Reader's Digest Video and Hit Entertainment; in the United States, episodes began airing on the Starz premium channel in 1997....


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The 50 Greatest Television Dramas

Character: Self

Boasting an amazing selection of the most watched, most influential and most highly acclaimed programmes ever made, The 50 Greatest Television Dramas presents a long overdue assessment of the rich heritage television drama has to offer. Channel 4 invited over 200 of Britain's top television drama professionals – writers, directors, producers and commissioners – to take part in an exclusive poll to discover what they consider the finest dramas ever produced....

Anything Goes

Character: Moonface Martin

When the S.S. American heads out to sea, etiquette and convention head out the portholes as two unlikely pairs set off on the course to true love... proving that sometimes destiny needs a little help from a crew of singing sailors, a comical disguise and some good old-fashioned blackmail. This hilarious musical romp across the Atlantic, directed by the multi-award-winning Broadway director and choreographer Kathleen Marshall, features Cole Porter’s joyful score, including "I Get A Kick Out of Yo...

Broadway's Lost Treasures II

Character: Bill Snibson (segment "Me and My Girl")

The annual Tony Award broadcast provides the only filmed record of Broadway's best for audiences to experience as if they were front-row-center on opening night. This second compilation of great musical moments from the Tonys features another dazzling array of stars and performances. Hosts Lauren Bacall, Bebe Neuwirth, Brian Stokes Mitchell and Jerry Orbach introduce these one-of-a-kind performances and share their personal Broadway and Tony memories....

Rembrandt: From the National Gallery, London and Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Character: Narrator

Every Rembrandt exhibition is eagerly anticipated but this major show hosted by London’s National Gallery and Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum was an event like no other. Given privileged access to both galleries the film documents this landmark exhibition, whilst interweaving Rembrandt’s life story, with behind-the-scenes preparations at these world famous institutions. Exploring many of the exhibition’s key works, through contributions from specially invited guests including curators and leading art hi...

Fierce Creatures

Character: Sydney Lotterby

Ex-policeman Rollo Lee is sent to run Marwood Zoo, the newly acquired business of a New Zealand tycoon. In order to meet high profit targets and keep the zoo open, Rollo enforces a new 'fierce creatures' policy, whereby only the most impressive and dangerous animals are allowed to remain in the zoo. However, the keepers are less enthusiastic about complying with these demands....

Hornblower: The Examination for Lieutenant

Character: Sir Edward Pellew

Acting Lieutenant Hornblower attempts to study for his promotion examination, but becomes distracted by the serious supply problems that face his crew....

Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition

Character: Narrator

With loans from across the world, this major retrospective will bring together Vermeer’s most famous masterpieces including Girl with a Pearl Earring, The Geographer, The Milkmaid, The Little Street, Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid, and Woman Holding a Balance. This film invites audiences to a private view of the exhibition, accompanied by the director of the Rijksmuseum and the curator of the show....

Hornblower: The Duchess and the Devil

Character: Captain Pellew

Acting Lieutenant Hornblower and his crew are captured by the enemy while escorting a Duchess who has secrets of her own....

Hornblower: Mutiny

Character: Sir Edward Pellew

Hornblower and his comrades come under the command of a revered but mentally unstable captain and are forced to mutiny in order to save their ship, the HMS Renown....

Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters

Character: Sir Edward Pellew

Lieutenant Hornblower and his shipmates are sent to accompany a doomed royalist invasion of revolutionary France....

The Trial of Tony Blair

Character: Tony Blair

Biting political satire starring Robert Lindsay as a beleaguered Tony Blair, who stubbornly refuses to see the danger he faces from a Special Tribunal on Iraq that has been set up to investigate war crimes...

Divorcing Jack

Character: Michael Brinn

He's Irish, he's ageing, he drinks, is a touch cynical and when he has time writes a newspaper column. On the eve of the country's first election as an independent state, Dan Starkey's life is about to change after he finds the young woman he has just made love to dead and his only ally is a nun...

Hornblower: Loyalty

Character: Admiral Sir Edward Pellew

Hornblower must deliver a French nobleman to a secret rendezvous near Brest, all while coping with enemy agents in his own ranks....

Hornblower: Duty

Character: Admiral Sir Edward Pellew

Admiral Pellew interrupts Hornblower's wedding reception and tasks him to locate a British ship which has disappeared off the French coast, where Napoleon's troops are engaged in covert activities....

Hawkins

Character: Luke Hawkins

Hawkins was an original film for BBC Television about a man who lives a double life, as a Nietzschean Philosophy Lecturer and as a Detective who is fascinated by lowlife and criminal mentalities....

Hornblower: The Even Chance

Character: Captain Sir Edward Pellew

Portsmouth, 1794. Under thundery skies and in lashing rain, 17-year-old midshipman Horatio Hornblower takes the first tentative steps of his naval career, but a feud with a shipmate causes complications....

Hornblower: Retribution

Character: Sir Edward Pellew

Hornblower and the other officers of the Renown must return to Jamaica to face a court-martial and possible execution for their actions in relieving their unstable captain....

Strike It Rich

Character: Bertram

A London accountant on his honeymoon gets swept away by gambling fever....

Bert Rigby, You're a Fool

Character: Bert Rigby

A musical about a miner who wants to break into show business....

Friends & Crocodiles

Character: William Sneath

Paul Reynolds is a Gatsby-like figure: owner of a magnificent house, the host of great parties, and a collector of interesting people. He persuades Lizzie Thomas, a secretary at a local estate agent's, to come and work for him as his assistant, to bring some order to his chaos. He inspires her with his enthusiasm and imagination, and frustrates her with his apparent carelessness and destructiveness, which culminates in her calling the police as one of his parties is attacked by local troublemake...

Grace of Monaco

Character: Aristotle Onassis

The story of former Hollywood star Grace Kelly's crisis of marriage and identity, during a political dispute between Monaco's Prince Rainier III and France's Charles De Gaulle, and a looming French invasion of Monaco in the early 1960s....

The Job

Character: Narrator (voice)

World In Action documentary filmed in 1992 sees Manchester City Council has advertised for road sweepers and 1,460 people from a variety of backgrounds have applied for twenty jobs. This documentary follows the applicants through to the interview....

Three for All

Character: Tom

A pop band and their girlfriends have fun in Spain...

Twelfth Night

Character: Fabian

Viola and Sebastian are lookalike twins, separated by a shipwreck. Viola lands in Illyria, where she disguises herself like her brother and goes into the service of the Duke Orsino. Orsino sends her to help him woo the Lady Olivia, who doesn't want the Duke, but finds that she likes the new messenger the Duke's sending. Then, of course, Viola's brother shows up, and merry hell breaks loose. Meanwhile, Olivia's uncle and his cohorts are trying to find some way to get back at Olivia's officious ma...

Remember Me?

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A domestic farce exposes the eccentricities of a "typical" middle class, suburban family who find their lives thrown into a crisis with the unexpected arrival of one of the wife's old flames....

Adventures of a Taxi Driver

Character: Tom

Joe North is a London taxi driver who manages to get himself into any number of sexual situations with various women....

Gideon's Daughter

Character: Sneath

Bill Nighy and Miranda Richardson star in a story of grief and celebrity, set in the intense spring and summer of New Labour's election victory and Diana's death. Nighy is a PR guru who has to stop and re-evaluate his world when his daughter threatens to leave his life, perhaps as revenge for his serial infidelities. Richardson plays a mother trying to bury her grief in an unconventional way after the loss of her young son....

Genghis Cohn

Character: Otto Schatz, Commissioner of Police

In the midst of World War II, Nazi officer Otto Schatz declares the execution of Jewish music-hall comedian Genghis Cohn. Many years later, Otto is comfortably retired into the life of a highly respected police commissioner, and is investigating a series of murders when he encounters the ghost of Genghis Cohn. The haunting turns into a taunting, and before he knows it, Schatz is slowly driven mad as he is lured into a trap....

Dodger Special: Christmas

Character: William Lamb

A kind-hearted deed for an old friend leads Dodger to break into 10 Downing Street....

Give Us a Break: Hustle Bustle Toil and Muscle

Character: Mickey Noades

Mickey and Mo head to Liverpool for the chance of a big score...

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Character: Oberon

Young lovers living under an oppressive state-rule flee their home-city to change their lives, and end up changing the world. After all, love changes everything....

The Impressionists: And the Man Who Made Them

Character:

Monet, Cezanne, Degas, Renoir: some of the world’s most popular artists. Their works, and that of their contemporaries, fetch tens of millions of dollars around the globe. But who were they really? Why & how exactly did they paint? What lies behind their enduring appeal? To help answer these questions, this unique film secured unparalleled access to a major exhibition focussing on the man credited with inventing impressionism as we know it: 19th-century Parisian art collector Paul Durand-Ruel. ...

King Lear

Character: Edmund

An aging King invites disaster when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters and rejects his one loving, but honest one....

Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings

Character: Various Characters

The comedienne stars in this festive sketch show, alongside a host of celebrity guests....

Brambly Hedge: Classic Collection

Character: Narrator (Voice)

Four stories featuring the mice of Brambly Hedge. In 'The Secret Staircase' Primrose and Wilfred set off looking for costumes for the Midwinter celebrations. Wilfred is determined to follow in the pawprints of his exploring hero in 'The High Hills'. In 'Sea Story' the mice run out of salt. And, living in the mill with three little babies is not easy for Poppy in 'Poppy's Babies'....

Brazen Hussies

Character: Billy Bowman

After meeting her old school friend Sandra Delaney, who now works as a stripper, pub owner Maureen Hardcastle decides to spice up her flagging business by turning it into a male stripper club, with the help of untrustworthy businessman Billy Bowman....

That'll Be The Day

Character: Terry Sutcliffe

Britain, 1958. Restless at school and bored with his life, Jim leaves home to take a series of low-level jobs at a seaside amusement park, where he discovers a world of cheap sex and petty crime. But when that world comes to a shockingly brutal end, Jim returns home. As the local music scene explodes, Jim must decide between a life of adult responsibility or a new phenomenon called rock & roll....

Jack the Ripper: An On-Going Mystery

Character: Narrator

A new look into the mysterious serial killer: Jack the Ripper....

Maleficent: Mistress of Evil

Character: King John

Maleficent and her goddaughter Aurora begin to question the complex family ties that bind them as they are pulled in different directions by impending nuptials, unexpected allies, and dark new forces at play....

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Character: Lysander

Four Athenians run away to the forest only to have Puck the fairy make both of the boys fall in love with the same girl. The four run through the forest pursuing each other while Puck helps his master play a trick on the fairy queen. In the end, Puck reverses the magic, and the two couples reconcile and marry....

Wimbledon

Character: Ian Frazier

British tennis player Peter clutches to an embarrassingly low position on the tennis-ranking ladder. Handed a wild card for Wimbledon, he expects it to be his final bow....

Movie Musical Greats with Hugh Jackman

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The Greatest Showman star Hugh Jackman joins Alex Zane to discuss his career on stage and screen, as well as his favourite movie musicals of all time....

Cymbeline

Character: Iachimo

Cymbeline, the King of Britain, is angry that his daughter Imogen has chosen a poor (but worthy) man for her husband. So he banishes Posthumus, who goes to fight for Rome. Imogen (dressed as a boy) goes in search of her husband, who meanwhile has boasted to his pal Iachimo that Imogen would never betray him. And Iachimo's determined to prove him wrong....

Much Ado About Nothing

Character: Benedick

Benedick and Beatrice fight their merry war of words. But when Beatrice's friend, Hero, is humiliatingly jilted by Benedick's best friend, Claudio, Benedick has to choose which side he's on. But unknown to all, Claudio's been tricked by the bastard Don John, and (unfortunately), it's up to Dogberry and Verges to solve the case....

All's Well That Ends Well

Character: First French Lord

Helena loves Bertram, but he's of noble birth, while she's just a doctor's daughter. But Bertram is at the court of the King of France, who is ill, and Helena has a remedy that might cure him and win her the right to marry Bertram. But does Bertram want to marry her?...

The Best of the Adventures

Character: Tom (archive footage)

A feature-length compilation of the funniest and naughtiest bits from the legendary 1970s’ Adventures of series!...

The Crazy Kill

Character: Policeman at Roadblock

A doctor and his wife are held hostage in their country home by an escaped convict and his sidekick, but a journalist's arrival complicates matters....

Trouble at the Top: Nightmare at Canary Wharf

Character: Narrator

The year Janet Street-Porter spent at Live TV, where her task was to make 24-hour live television at a fraction of normal costs. As the station nears its launch, new technology fails to work and the pressures on staff mount as tensions rise - BBC2, 1995...

Trouble at the Big Top: Death of the Dome

Character: Narrator

Trouble at the Top was a business-based BBC television fly-on-the wall documentary broadcast series, produced for BBC2. A spin off four-part series, Trouble at the Big Top. followed developments at the Millennium Dome in a similar style....

Trouble at the Top: Century 105 FM Launch

Character: Narrator

A documentary about the launch of Century 105 radio station in the English North West. (BBC 2)...

Babies at 50

Character: Narrator

In this revealing one-hour special, we look at the lives of older mums and women desperate to become mothers - at any age. Medical experts say that it is now possible for a woman of 80 to have a baby but is it morally and ethically correct? This heart-rending program looks at the difficult choices facing women who want to become mothers late in life and explores the desperate measures they take in order to fulfill their dream....

Bosses From Hell

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John Cleese training video about bosses....

Communicators From Hell

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John Cleese training video....

Employees From Hell

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John Cleese training video about employees....


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