Mona Washbourne

Mona Washbourne

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Mona Lee Washbourne (27 November 1903 – 15 November 1988) was an English actress of stage, film, and television. Her most critically acclaimed role was in the film Stevie (1978), late in her career, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and a BAFTA Award. Mona Washbourne was born in Solihull, Warwickshire and began her entertaining career training as a concert pianist. In 1948, after several years acting professionally on stage, and numerous stage musical performances, she began appearing in films. Her film credits include the horror movie The Brides of Dracula (1960), Billy Liar (1963), and The Collector (1965). She is probably best known to American audiences for her role as housekeeper Mrs. Pearce in My Fair Lady (1964). She also appeared as the stern and caustic Mrs. Bramson in the remake of Night Must Fall (also 1964), and the matron in the film If.... (1968). She appeared at both the Royal Court Theatre in London and on Broadway in 1970 in David Storey's Home. She was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play. In 1975 she appeared on the West End stage with James Stewart in a revival of Mary Chase's play Harvey, in the role originally taken by Josephine Hull. Washbourne won the 1981 New York Film Critics' Circle Awards for Best Supporting Actress in Stevie (1978). In 1981 Washbourne appeared in Granada Television's TV miniseries adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's novel Brideshead Revisited as Nanny Hawkins. One of her last television appearances was in Where's the Key? (1983), a BBC play about Alzheimer's disease. Mona Washbourne was married to actor Basil Dignam (1905-1979), whom she wed in 1940. She died in 1988, aged 84, in London.

  • Title: Mona Washbourne
  • Popularity: 1.04
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1903-11-27
  • Place of Birth: Solihull, Warwickshire, England, UK
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  • Also Known As: Mona Lee Washbourne
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Mona Washbourne Movies

  • 1956
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    Yield to the Night

    Yield to the Night

    6.9 1956 HD

    Locked in her cell, a murderer reflects on the events that have led her to death row.

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  • 1960
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    The Brides of Dracula

    The Brides of Dracula

    6.7 1960 HD

    A young teacher on her way to a position in Transylvania helps a young man escape the shackles his mother has put on him. In so doing she innocently...

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  • 1969
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    The Bed Sitting Room

    The Bed Sitting Room

    5.9 1969 HD

    In the hazy aftermath of World War III, the fallout from a 'nuclear misunderstanding' is producing strange mutations amongst the survivors, and the...

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  • 1963
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    Billy Liar

    Billy Liar

    6.864 1963 HD

    A young Englishman dreams of escaping from his working class family and dead-end job as an undertaker's assistant. A number of indiscretions cause...

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  • 1955
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    Cast a Dark Shadow

    Cast a Dark Shadow

    6.3 1955 HD

    Edward "Teddy" Bare is a ruthless schemer who thinks he's hit the big time when he kills his older wife, believing he will inherit a fortune. When...

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  • 1967
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    Two A Penny

    Two A Penny

    1.5 1967 HD

    Set in London's Swiinging Sixties, Cliff Richard plays Jamie Hopkins, an art student whose desperate need for money leads him to dabble in the...

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  • 1965
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    The Collector

    The Collector

    7.3 1965 HD

    Freddie is an inept bank clerk with no future. His only hobby is collecting butterflies, which gives him a feeling of power and control that is...

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  • 1952
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    The Gambler and the Lady

    The Gambler and the Lady

    5.6 1952 HD

    A greedy but successful professional gambler wants to join the British Establishment when he falls in love with a blue-blooded lady. But first he...

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  • 1964
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    Night Must Fall

    Night Must Fall

    6.705 1964 HD

    A psychotic killer gets in the good graces of his aging invalid employer, and worms his way into the affection of her beautiful daughter, with...

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  • 1958
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    Son of a Stranger

    Son of a Stranger

    1 1958 HD

    A young man searches for the father he never knew, who he believes to be a millionaire.

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  • 1970
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    The Games

    The Games

    7.2 1970 HD

    From Great Britain, the United States, France, Italy, Australia and behind the Iron Curtain. They are the most superbly conditioned animals in the...

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  • 1974
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    Identikit

    Identikit

    6 1974 HD

    Lise, a mentally disturbed spinster, experiences a series of bizarre encounters while in Rome as she searches for someone who will murder her.

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  • 1972
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    What Became of Jack and Jill?

    What Became of Jack and Jill?

    5.1 1972 HD

    Two young people plot to get their hands on grannie's money, but rather than simply pushing her down the stairs they hatch an elaborate plot to...

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  • 1965
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    Ferry Cross the Mersey

    Ferry Cross the Mersey

    6.1 1965 HD

    Gerry and Fred Marsden, Les McGuire, and Les "Chad" Chadwick portray themselves in a romp through the early-1960s Liverpool Beat Scene. Art students...

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  • 1948
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    The Winslow Boy

    The Winslow Boy

    6.9 1948 HD

    In pre-WW1 England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, but his parents raise a political furor by demanding a trial.

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  • 1965
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    The Third Day

    The Third Day

    5.8 1965 HD

    A man stumbles out of a car crash with no memory of what transpired. Everyone who he meets suggests that he is a ruthless man with an aggressive...

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  • 1954
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    Doctor in the House

    Doctor in the House

    6.3 1954 HD

    The first of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 and 1970. Simon Sparrow is a newly arrived medical...

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  • 1956
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    Circus Friends

    Circus Friends

    1 1956 HD

    A group of circus children and their friends band together to save the show from financial disaster.

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  • 1950
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    Dark Interval

    Dark Interval

    1 1950 HD

    A young woman marries and moves into her husband's family mansion. She soon discovers that neither the house, nor her husband, is exactly what it...

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  • 1965
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    One Way Pendulum

    One Way Pendulum

    5.5 1965 HD

    A study of absurdity in a suburban family: father recreates the Old Bailey in the living room while the son teaches speak-your-weight machines to...

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  • 1957
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    Stranger in Town

    Stranger in Town

    6.5 1957 HD

    A vacationing journalist investigates the mysterious death of a composer and debunks the theory that it was suicide.

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  • 1975
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    The Old Curiosity Shop

    The Old Curiosity Shop

    4.5 1975 HD

    A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of dusty treasures. Evicted and with no way to pay...

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  • 1957
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    The Good Companions

    The Good Companions

    1 1957 HD

    The story revolves around the Dinky Doos, a provincial musical troupe living from hand to mouth.

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  • 1978
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    Stevie

    Stevie

    7 1978 HD

    For a poet with a gift for crafting words into barbs, Stevie Smith lives a relatively conventional life. Sheltered in a London suburb, she spends her...

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  • 1972
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    Home

    Home

    7.8 1972 HD

    David Storey's adaptation of his award winning play for the BBC's Play for Today series.

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  • 1964
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    My Fair Lady

    My Fair Lady

    7.498 1964 HD

    A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.

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  • 1959
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    Count Your Blessings

    Count Your Blessings

    4.2 1959 HD

    Englishwoman Grace Allingham marries Frenchman Charles Edouard de Valhubert, but their marriage quickly becomes unusual. Because Charles cheats on...

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  • 1968
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    Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter

    Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter

    4.5 1968 HD

    Herman inherits a greyhound and decides to make his fortune by dog racing. After traveling from Manchester to London in the hope of entering a...

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  • 1958
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    A Cry from the Streets

    A Cry from the Streets

    7.2 1958 HD

    Bittersweet story about London's unwanted children and the good people trying to help them. Ann is a social worker, while Bill is an electrician...

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  • 1953
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    Johnny on the Run

    Johnny on the Run

    7.5 1953 HD

    A Polish boy runs away from his unkind foster mother in Edinburgh and finds a new home in a lakeside village for orphans of all nations, after...

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  • 1949
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    Once Upon a Dream

    Once Upon a Dream

    6 1949 HD

    An officer's wife has a romantic dream about her husband's man (servant) and comes to believe it is true. Meanwhile the husband has asked his servant...

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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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  • 1954
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    Betrayed

    Betrayed

    5.6 1954 HD

    Screen superstars Clark Gable ("Gone With The Wind," "It Happened One Night") and sultry bombshell Lana Turner ("Peyton Place," "The Postman Always...

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  • 1968
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    Number Ten

    Number Ten

    1 1968 HD

    The Prime Minister heads a cabinet divided on the question of either using force against an African state, or referring the matter to the United...

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  • 1970
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    Poor Mother

    Poor Mother

    1 1970 HD

    Nineteen-year-old Bambi is upset when her husband is late arriving to see their new-born child, especially when she discovers that the wine he has...

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  • 1972
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    I Spy a Stranger

    I Spy a Stranger

    1 1972 HD

    Play set in the Home Counties during the Second World War. A Czech refugee arrives at her cousin's Mrs Hudson's, which create xenophobic problems in...

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  • 1954
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    Monsieur Ripois

    Monsieur Ripois

    6.1 1954 HD

    While his wife, Catherine, is finalizing their divorce, serial philanderer Andre invites his latest conquest, Catherine’s best friend,...

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  • 1956
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    Loser Takes All

    Loser Takes All

    5.4 1956 HD

    Bertrand, an accountant employed by a large London firm, is called to the office of the Managing Director, Dreuther, to explain a mistake in the...

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  • 1949
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    Adam and Evelyne

    Adam and Evelyne

    6.6 1949 HD

    A handsome gambler unwittingly becomes guardian of an orphaned, teenaged girl.

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  • 1968
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    if....

    if....

    7.067 1968 HD

    In an English boys' boarding school, social hierarchy reigns supreme and power remains in the hands of distanced and ineffectual teachers and...

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  • 1956
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    Lost

    Lost

    7 1956 HD

    U.S. Embassy employee Lee Cochrane and his wife, Sue, receive a shock when they discover that their 18-month-old son, Simon, has disappeared in...

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  • 1979
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    The London Connection

    The London Connection

    7.8 1979 HD

    A missing formula, a defecting Eastern European scientist kidnapped, car chases, foot chases, air chases, the British secret service, and a couple of...

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  • 1956
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    It's Great to be Young!

    It's Great to be Young!

    6.2 1956 HD

    IT’S GREAT TO A YOUNG stars John Mills as Dingle an easygoing high school teacher. When autocratic new headmaster Frome (Cecil Parker) begins...

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  • 1970
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    Fragment of Fear

    Fragment of Fear

    5.935 1970 HD

    A reformed drug addict travels to Italy to find out who murdered his aunt.

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  • 1954
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    To Dorothy, a Son

    To Dorothy, a Son

    5.6 1954 HD

    Under a complicated bequest from her uncle, Myrtle stands to inherit $2,000,000 if her ex-husband doesn't have any male heirs on the way, else he...

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  • 1954
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    The Million Pound Note

    The Million Pound Note

    6.803 1954 HD

    An impoverished American sailor is fortunate enough to be passing the house of two rich gentlemen who have conceived the crazy idea of distributing a...

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  • 1976
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    The Blue Bird

    The Blue Bird

    5.2 1976 HD

    A pair of peasant children, Mytyl and her brother Tyltyl, are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the Fairy Berylune....

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  • 1950
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    Double Confession

    Double Confession

    6.1 1950 HD

    The hero discovers his estranged wife dead and tries to frame her lover for the murder. He becomes involved with the criminals who make various...

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  • 1949
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    Maytime in Mayfair

    Maytime in Mayfair

    6 1949 HD

    Penniless man-about-town Michael Gore-Brown is delighted to hear he has been left a high-class Mayfair fashion salon. His intention is to sell it as...

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  • 1984
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    December Flower

    December Flower

    1 1984 HD

    Newly widowed Etta visits her beloved Aunt M and discovers her bedridden and listless. Etta's struggle to restore her aunt's dignity and cheer brings...

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  • 1950
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    Probation Officer

    Probation Officer

    1 1950 HD

    Part of BFI collection "Police and Thieves." Follows the work of a probation officer and the people he tries to help.

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  • 1981
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    Pygmalion

    Pygmalion

    1 1981 HD

    Adaptation of the play by Bernard Shaw.

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  • 1982
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    Charles & Diana: A Royal Love Story

    Charles & Diana: A Royal Love Story

    5 1982 HD

    Dramatization of the romance and July 1981 wedding of Great Britain's Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer.

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  • 1954
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    Adventure in the Hopfields

    Adventure in the Hopfields

    7 1954 HD

    A little girl accidentally breaks her mother's favourite ornament and goes hop-picking to replace it.

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  • 1967
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    Casino Royale

    Casino Royale

    5.3 1967 HD

    Sir James Bond is called back out of retirement to stop SMERSH. In order to trick SMERSH, James thinks up the ultimate plan - that every agent will...

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  • 1981
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    Brideshead Revisited

    Brideshead Revisited

    7.9 1981 HD

    Charles Ryder, an agnostic man, becomes involved with members of the Flytes, a Catholic family of aristocrats, over the course of several years...

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  • 1955
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    Matinee Theater

    Matinee Theater

    4.6 1955 HD

    Matinee Theater is an American anthology series that aired on NBC during the Golden Age of Television, from 1955 to 1958. The series, which ran daily...

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  • 1970
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    Play for Today

    Play for Today

    6.125 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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  • 1977
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    The Galton & Simpson Playhouse

    The Galton & Simpson Playhouse

    1 1977 HD

    Seven Hilariously comic situations from the fertile imaginations of Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.

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  • 1980
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    Therese Raquin

    Therese Raquin

    5.9 1980 HD

    Therese, an attractive young woman married to her sickly cousin Camille, leads an extremely monotonous life until Camille brings home Laurent, an old...

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