John Barrett

John Barrett

Rochdale born John Barrett was a veteran of over 100 films and various TV programmes in a career that stretched twenty five years from 1958 to his death in 1983.

  • Title: John Barrett
  • Popularity: 1.085
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1910-02-18
  • Place of Birth: Rochdale, Lancashire, England, UK
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  • Also Known As: Jack Elvyn Barrett, Jack Elvyn "John" Barrett
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John Barrett Movies

  • 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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  • 1970
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    The Hunting of Lionel Crane

    The Hunting of Lionel Crane

    1 1970 HD

    An army deserter hides out on a country estate but falls foul of the gamekeeper.

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  • 1970
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    Rest in Peace, Uncle Fred

    Rest in Peace, Uncle Fred

    1 1970 HD

    Two incidents in a young actress's life have their effect on each other - a dinner date with a film producer, and attendance at the funeral of a...

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  • 1974
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    Our Cissy

    Our Cissy

    1 1974 HD

    An old man travels to London from the North Country, accompanied by his son, in order to find the truth about his daughter's suicide.

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  • 1968
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    Star!

    Star!

    6.9 1968 HD

    Gertrude Lawrence rises to stage stardom at the cost of happiness.

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  • 1979
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    Comedians

    Comedians

    8 1979 HD

    Comedians is a TV movie/play by Trevor Griffiths, set in a Manchester evening class for aspiring working-class comedians.

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  • 1978
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    Last Wishes

    Last Wishes

    1 1978 HD

    An elderly recluse dies in the process of changing her will. The change would have meant that the servants would continue to live i n her house - now...

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  • 1960
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    Who Pays the Piper?

    Who Pays the Piper?

    1 1960 HD

    A dramatised documentary about the lives and work of the performers and administrators of a local orchestra. With the BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra.

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  • 1977
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    The Testing of Eric Olthwaite

    The Testing of Eric Olthwaite

    1 1977 HD

    Eric Olthwaite is so boring that his family all leave home to escape him. Then one day he is accidentally caught up in a bank robbery and discovers...

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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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  • 1979
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    Porridge

    Porridge

    6.7 1979 HD

    Times are hard for habitual guest of Her Majesty Norman Stanley Fletcher. The new prison officer, Beale, makes MacKay look soft and what's more, an...

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  • 1961
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    Anna Karenina

    Anna Karenina

    6.7 1961 HD

    Anna, the wife of government minister Alexis Karenin, visits Moscow to help straighten out a family quarrel. There, Count Alexis Vronsky falls in...

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  • 1982
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    Remembrance

    Remembrance

    4.8 1982 HD

    A group of Devonport-based Royal Navy ratings, due to sail to America for a six-month NATO exercise, go out on the town on their last night in port,...

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  • 1967
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    Far from the Madding Crowd

    Far from the Madding Crowd

    6.837 1967 HD

    Bathsheba Everdine, a willful, flirtatious, young woman, unexpectedly inherits a large farm and becomes romantically involved with three widely...

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  • 1981
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    The French Lieutenant's Woman

    The French Lieutenant's Woman

    6.4 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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    The Eagle Has Landed

    The Eagle Has Landed

    6.603 1976 HD

    When the Nazi high command learns in late 1943 that Winston Churchill will be spending time at a country estate in Norfolk, it hatches an audacious...

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  • 1979
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    Tess

    Tess

    7.1 1979 HD

    A strong-willed peasant girl is sent by her father to the estate of some local aristocrats to capitalize on a rumor that their families are from the...

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  • 1975
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    Lloyd George Knew My Father

    Lloyd George Knew My Father

    1 1975 HD

    When Lady Sheila Boothroyd hears that the planning authorities are determined to drive a road through her grounds, she announces her intention to...

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  • 1959
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    Jack the Ripper

    Jack the Ripper

    5.9 1959 HD

    A serial killer is murdering women in the Whitechapel district of London. An American policeman is brought in to help Scotland Yard solve the case.

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  • 1972
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    Nearest and Dearest

    Nearest and Dearest

    6.9 1972 HD

    Jimmy Jewel and Hylda Baker star in this big screen spin-off of one of ITV's most popular comedy series of all time. When the father of Eli and...

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  • 1982
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    The Missionary

    The Missionary

    5.581 1982 HD

    In 1905, after 10 years of missionary work in Africa, the Rev. Charles Fortesque is recalled to England, where his bishop gives him his new...

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  • 1974
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    Smokey Joe's Revenge

    Smokey Joe's Revenge

    1 1974 HD

    Three children rejuvenate an old traction engine and enter it for the County Championship.

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  • 1966
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    The Trygon Factor

    The Trygon Factor

    6.452 1966 HD

    A Scotland Yard detective is investigating a string of robberies and a murder, and the information he uncovers leads him to the estate of a wealthy...

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  • 1970
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    The Long Distance Piano Player

    The Long Distance Piano Player

    1 1970 HD

    The first Play for Today is the story of one man's obsession (to win the world long distance piano playing record) and the battle for good (his wife)...

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  • 1974
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    South Riding

    South Riding

    1 1974 HD

    An adaptation of Winifred Holtby's classic novel

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  • 1966
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    The Witches

    The Witches

    6.1 1966 HD

    Following a nervous breakdown, Gwen takes up the job of head teacher in the small village of Haddaby. There she can benefit from the tranquillity and...

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  • 1976
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    Robin and Marian

    Robin and Marian

    6.3 1976 HD

    Robin Hood, aging none too gracefully, returns exhausted from the Crusades to woo and win Maid Marian one last time.

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  • 1965
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    War-Gods of the Deep

    War-Gods of the Deep

    4.9 1965 HD

    A chance discovery leads American mining engineer Ben Harris and acquaintance Harold to discover a lost city under the sea while searching for their...

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  • 1973
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    O Lucky Man!

    O Lucky Man!

    6.804 1973 HD

    An ambitious coffee salesman has a series of improbable and ironic adventures seemingly designed to challenge his naive idealism.

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  • 1960
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    Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

    Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

    7 1960 HD

    A 22-year-old factory worker lets loose on the weekends: drinking, brawling, and dating two women, one of whom is older and married.

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  • 1972
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    Up the Chastity Belt

    Up the Chastity Belt

    3.8 1972 HD

    A funny thing happened to Lurkalot, serf to Sir Coward de Custard, on the way to Custard Castle. Lurkalot sells lusty love potions and rusty chastity...

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  • 1971
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    Billy's Last Stand

    Billy's Last Stand

    1 1971 HD

    Billy is his own boss. But Darkly has plans for him ...

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  • 1973
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    Malachi's Cove

    Malachi's Cove

    6.1 1973 HD

    A tough young girl lives with her aging grandfather near a cove on the coast of Cornwall. She supports herself and him by gathering seaweed to sell...

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  • 1965
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    The World of George Orwell: 1984

    The World of George Orwell: 1984

    1 1965 HD

    Early adaption of Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four as part of the Theatre 625 series.

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  • 1976
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    Packman's Barn

    Packman's Barn

    1 1976 HD

    Ben Packman leaves an old people's home to return to the Welsh mountains.

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  • 1980
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    Murder Rap

    Murder Rap

    1 1980 HD

    Wally, a caretaker in a block of flats, loses his job when the flats are used to rehouse Bhengali families.

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  • 1962
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    A Prize of Arms

    A Prize of Arms

    6.563 1962 HD

    A criminal gang sets out to pull off the heist of a large army payroll.

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  • 1968
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    There's a Hole in Your Dustbin, Delilah

    There's a Hole in Your Dustbin, Delilah

    1 1968 HD

    A skiving bin gang are on high alert when their new inspector takes an interest.

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  • 1964
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    The Crunch

    The Crunch

    1 1964 HD

    A megalomaniac dictator, in charge of a former colony, installs a nuclear bomb in its London Embassy. He threatens to set it off, unless a huge...

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  • 1973
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    The Death of Glory

    The Death of Glory

    1 1973 HD

    Prevented by health reasons from joining the Army, a man lives out his military fantasies by leading a failing marching band. His life changes when...

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  • 1994
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    Double Blast

    Double Blast

    4.8 1994 HD

    Two kids with martial arts training and their black belt father rescue a professor from gangsters who want a stone tablet that she has discovered may...

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  • 1982
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    Rolling Home

    Rolling Home

    1 1982 HD

    Mr Wyman is an elderly man whose increasingly unreliable memory has landed him in a geriatric ward. Here he is visited by his daughters Val and...

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  • 1980
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    Pews

    Pews

    1 1980 HD

    Liftchick has a problem. As beadle to the synagogue he is responsible for getting ten men together to say Kaddish, but it is holiday-time and the...

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  • 1974
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    Not On Your Nellie

    Not On Your Nellie

    5.333 1974 HD

    Not On Your Nellie is a British sitcom that ran from 1974-75. It starred veteran actress Hylda Baker as Nellie Pickersgill, a Bolton woman who moves...

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  • 1969
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    The Dustbinmen

    The Dustbinmen

    4.5 1969 HD

    The Dustbinmen is a British television sitcom made by Granada Television for ITV, which starred Bryan Pringle, Trevor Bannister, Graham Haberfield,...

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  • 1978
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    The Famous Five

    The Famous Five

    7 1978 HD

    The Famous Five is a British television series based on the children's books of the same name by Enid Blyton. It was broadcast on ITV over two series...

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  • 1973
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    Last of the Summer Wine

    Last of the Summer Wine

    7.1 1973 HD

    Unencumbered by wives, jobs or any other responsibilities, three senior citizens who've never really grown up explore their world in the Yorkshire...

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  • 1973
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    Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?

    Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?

    7.556 1973 HD

    Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? is a British sitcom which was broadcast between 9 January 1973 and 9 April 1974 on BBC1. It was the colour...

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  • 1978
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    Return of the Saint

    Return of the Saint

    7 1978 HD

    Follow the swashbuckling exploits of Simon Templar, a modern-day Robin Hood of sorts.

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  • 1978
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    All Creatures Great and Small

    All Creatures Great and Small

    7.6 1978 HD

    All Creatures Great and Small is a British television series, based on the books of the British veterinary surgeon Alf Wight, who wrote under the...

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  • 1962
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    The Saint

    The Saint

    7.3 1962 HD

    Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those...

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  • 1978
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    All Creatures Great and Small

    All Creatures Great and Small

    7.6 1978 HD

    All Creatures Great and Small is a British television series, based on the books of the British veterinary surgeon Alf Wight, who wrote under the...

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  • 1976
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    Bill Brand

    Bill Brand

    6.3 1976 HD

    Following the death of the sitting Labour Party Member of Parliament, Bill Brand is selected as Labour candidate for a Lancashire textile...

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  • 1973
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    The Jensen Code

    The Jensen Code

    5.5 1973 HD

    Sixteen-year-old Terry Connor is sent, along with a few of his friends, to an Outward Bound centre. On his first day at the centre Terry is taken...

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  • 1982
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    Objects of Affection

    Objects of Affection

    7 1982 HD

    A series of plays written by Alan Bennett.

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  • 1970
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    Play for Today

    Play for Today

    6.1 1970 HD

    Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more...

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  • 1970
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    Play for Today

    Play for Today

    6.1 1970 HD

    Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more...

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  • 1961
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    A for Andromeda

    A for Andromeda

    5 1961 HD

    Set in 1970, a team of scientists decipher a mysterious signal from space and discover that it provides instructions to build a powerful...

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