David Kelly

David Kelly

David Kelly (July 11, 1929 – February 12, 2012) was an Irish actor who had regular roles in several film and television works from the 1950s onwards. One of the most recognisable voices and faces of Irish stage and screen, Kelly was known for his roles as Rashers Tierney in Strumpet City, Cousin Enda in Me Mammy, the builder Mr O'Reilly in Fawlty Towers, Albert Riddle in Robin's Nest, and Grandpa Joe in the film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005). Another notable role was as Michael O'Sullivan in Waking Ned Devine.

  • Title: David Kelly
  • Popularity: 15.827
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1929-07-11
  • Place of Birth: Dublin, Ireland
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  • Also Known As: 大衛·凱利
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David Kelly Movies

  • 2005
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    Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

    Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

    7 2005 HD

    A young boy wins a tour through the most magnificent chocolate factory in the world, led by the world's most unusual candy maker.

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  • 1998
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    Waking Ned

    Waking Ned

    7 1998 HD

    When a lottery winner dies of shock, his fellow townsfolk attempt to claim the money.

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  • 1966
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    Billy Budd

    Billy Budd

    1 1966 HD

    A version of Benjamin Britten's opera based on the Melville story. Will the virtuous young sailor Billy Budd be hanged for murder?

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  • 1988
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    Joyriders

    Joyriders

    1 1988 HD

    The growing relationship of two people who travel through Ireland in a series of stolen cars.

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  • 1997
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    The Matchmaker

    The Matchmaker

    6.213 1997 HD

    Marcy, a worker in the reelection campaign of bumbling Senator John McGlory, is sent to Ireland on a quest to find the Irish ancestry of Sen....

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  • 1992
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    Into the West

    Into the West

    6.543 1992 HD

    Accused of a crime they didn't commit, two city kids and a magical horse are about to become the coolest outlaws ever to ride Into The West.

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  • 2001
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    Greenfingers

    Greenfingers

    6.3 2001 HD

    Clive Owen stars as a prison inmate who goes into an experimental "open" prison where the inmates walk around freely and get job training for their...

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  • 2001
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    Mean Machine

    Mean Machine

    6.229 2001 HD

    Disgraced ex-England football captain, Danny 'Mean Machine' Meehan, is thrown in jail for assaulting two police officers. He keeps his head down and...

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  • 2006
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    The Kovak Box

    The Kovak Box

    5.8 2006 HD

    David Norton is used to being in control. As a best-selling author, he decides the fate of his characters, their lives and their deaths. But what...

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  • 1964
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    Girl with Green Eyes

    Girl with Green Eyes

    6.6 1964 HD

    A naive young country girl moves to Dublin and finds herself drawn to a sophisticated author twice her age.

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  • 1995
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    Moondance

    Moondance

    5.8 1995 HD

    The close relationship between two fun-loving brothers comes under threat when a beautiful, sensitive girl arrives on the scene. As the younger...

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  • 1956
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    The Wrong Man

    The Wrong Man

    7.1 1956 HD

    In 1953, an innocent man named Christopher Emmanuel "Manny" Balestrero is arrested after being mistaken for an armed robber.

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  • 1977
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    The Purple Taxi

    The Purple Taxi

    5.8 1977 HD

    With his mauve taxi, the old philosopher Dr. Seamus Scully runs around the small green roads of the south of Ireland, becoming confident of his...

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  • 1977
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    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

    6 1977 HD

    Bosco Hogan plays Joyce's alter-ego, Stephen Daedelus, growing up in Ireland in the early part of the 20th century, and at odds with the strictures...

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  • 2003
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    Mystics

    Mystics

    5.2 2003 HD

    A black comedy about two old-time conmen who pretend to be able to communicate with the dead.

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  • 2000
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    Rough for Theatre I

    Rough for Theatre I

    4 2000 HD

    An old blind beggar and an old cripple in a wheelchair meet on a desolate street corner. The latter proposes that the two form an alliance, but the...

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  • 1995
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    The Run of the Country

    The Run of the Country

    6.8 1995 HD

    An Irish lad who fled from his oppressive, widowed father falls for a girl from an affluent family.

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  • 2007
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    Stardust

    Stardust

    7.279 2007 HD

    In a countryside town bordering on a magical land, a young man makes a promise to his beloved that he'll retrieve a fallen star by venturing into the...

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  • 1994
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    A Man of No Importance

    A Man of No Importance

    6.3 1994 HD

    Alfie Byrne is a middle-aged bus conductor in Dublin in 1963. He would appear to live a life of quiet desperation: he's gay, but firmly closeted, and...

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  • 2009
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    Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened

    Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened

    8 2009 HD

    30 years after Fawlty Towers (1975) ended, Stephen Fry narrates a documentary about the making of this classic sitcom.

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  • 2004
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    The Calcium Kid

    The Calcium Kid

    5.609 2004 HD

    When milkman Jimmy Connelly accidentally puts Britain's contender for the World title out of action, he is propelled from amateur boxer to the world...

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  • 1983
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    The Jigsaw Man

    The Jigsaw Man

    4.8 1983 HD

    Philip Kimberly, the former head of the British Secret Service who defected to Russia, is given plastic surgery and sent back to Britain by the KGB...

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  • 1970
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    Young Man in Trouble

    Young Man in Trouble

    1 1970 HD

    A problem for Frank and Margaret turns out to be a false alarm, or even a blessing in disguise.

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  • 1974
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    The Virgins

    The Virgins

    1 1974 HD

    Three middle-aged Irish bachelors - Shemm, Cloggy and Ambrose - put drinks before sex. Even Mrs Ryder can't shatter their celibacy.

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  • 2004
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    Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London

    Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London

    5.57 2004 HD

    With all-new gadgets, high-flying action, exciting chases and a wisecracking new handler, Derek (Anthony Anderson), Cody has to retrieve the device...

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  • 2002
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    The Last

    The Last

    1 2002 HD

    A short film about a shoemaker who pledged his fiancé he would make her the most beautiful pair of shoes for their wedding. Now, some fifty...

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  • 1970
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    The McKenzie Break

    The McKenzie Break

    6 1970 HD

    A German U-Boat commander plans a daring escape from a PoW camp in Scotland.

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  • 1986
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    Pirates

    Pirates

    6.3 1986 HD

    The adventures of pirate Captain Red and his first mate Frog.

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  • 1970
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    Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx

    Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx

    4.5 1970 HD

    In Dublin, a working class family has been unsuccessful in convincing their son to get a real job: the son prefers his job of scooping up horse's...

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  • 1969
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    The Italian Job

    The Italian Job

    7 1969 HD

    Charlie's got a 'job' to do. Having just left prison he finds one of his friends has attempted a high-risk job in Torino, Italy, right under the nose...

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  • 2000
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    Ordinary Decent Criminal

    Ordinary Decent Criminal

    6.136 2000 HD

    Michael Lynch is a notorious criminal with two wives and a flair for showmanship. He's also a huge embarrassment to the local police, who are...

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  • 1967
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    Ulysses

    Ulysses

    6 1967 HD

    Dublin; June 16, 1904. Stephen Dedalus, who fancies himself as a poet, embarks on a day of wandering about the city during which he finds friendship...

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  • 1983
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    Red Monarch

    Red Monarch

    4.7 1983 HD

    British comedy satirising Stalin's inner circle as an absolute monarchs court. In the face of rampant abuse of power and poisonous distrust some...

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  • 2002
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    Puckoon

    Puckoon

    6.167 2002 HD

    Spike Milligan's book about the divided Irish village of Puckoon comes to the big screen.

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  • 1982
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    The Hunchback of Notre Dame

    The Hunchback of Notre Dame

    5.8 1982 HD

    Quasimodo, the hunchback bellringer of Notre Dame's cathedral, meets a beautiful gypsy dancer, Esmeralda, and falls in love with her. So does...

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  • 1978
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    The Light Princess

    The Light Princess

    7 1978 HD

    Based on a short story by George MacDonald, a princess experiences constant weightlessness.

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  • 1962
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    The Quare Fellow

    The Quare Fellow

    5.8 1962 HD

    Thomas Crimmins is a new warder, or guard, in an Irish prison. He is young, naive, and idealistic, determined to serve his country by his part in...

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  • 1984
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    Anne Devlin

    Anne Devlin

    5 1984 HD

    The story of Anne Devlin, who was caught up in the revolt of the Irish under Robert Emmett in 1803, told exclusively from the woman's point of view.

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  • 1983
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    The Comedy of Errors

    The Comedy of Errors

    6.7 1983 HD

    Aegeon of Syracuse has come to Ephesus to seek his son, who went in search of his missing twin and mother months ago. Too bad that Ephesus has just...

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  • 1978
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    The Legion Hall Bombing

    The Legion Hall Bombing

    1 1978 HD

    The story of the trial of Willie Gallagher, convicted of bombing the Strabane British Legion Hall in Northern Ireland, 1976. The transmission of this...

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  • 2004
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    Laws of Attraction

    Laws of Attraction

    5.8 2004 HD

    Amidst a sea of litigation, two New York City divorce lawyers find love.

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  • 1974
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    Fugitive

    Fugitive

    1 1974 HD

    After 18 years as a friar, Peter is no longer sure of his vocation. It is a happy life, maybe too much so, and now he has met Clare. Will his doubts...

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  • 1975
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    Philadelphia, Here I Come

    Philadelphia, Here I Come

    6.8 1975 HD

    Friel contrasts Gar's cloistered emotional life with his gregarious social persona by portraying him as two distinct characters, a public self (Donal...

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  • 1973
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    Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width

    Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width

    6.6 1973 HD

    Two London tailors horse around, wind up robbed, go to Rome and disrupt the Vatican.

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  • 1958
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    Dublin Nightmare

    Dublin Nightmare

    5.5 1958 HD

    Loot goes missing in robbery double-cross. Gang members, an ex-lover and a handsome stranger are left to sort it out.

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  • 1975
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    Fawlty Towers

    Fawlty Towers

    8.242 1975 HD

    Owner Basil Fawlty, his wife Sybil, a chambermaid Polly, and Spanish waiter Manuel attempt to run their hotel amidst farcical situations and an array...

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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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  • 1992
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    Heartbeat

    Heartbeat

    7 1992 HD

    Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.

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  • 1977
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    Citizen Smith

    Citizen Smith

    6.25 1977 HD

    Classic BBC comedy starring Robert Lindsay as revolutionary leader Wolfie Smith of the Tooting Popular Front. Hoping to emulate his icons, Wolfie...

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  • 1968
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    The Ronnie Barker Playhouse

    The Ronnie Barker Playhouse

    1 1968 HD

    The Ronnie Barker Playhouse was a series of six comedy half hours showcasing the talents of Ronnie Barker. All were broadcast by...

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  • 1983
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    The Irish R.M.

    The Irish R.M.

    5.2 1983 HD

    The Irish R.M. refers to a series of books by the Anglo-Irish novelists Somerville and Ross, and the television comedy-drama series based on them....

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  • 1951
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    Hallmark Hall of Fame

    Hallmark Hall of Fame

    8.667 1951 HD

    Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The...

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  • 1990
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    Yellowthread Street

    Yellowthread Street

    6 1990 HD

    Yellowthread Street is a 1990 ITV police drama about detectives of the Royal Hong Kong Police based on the novels by William Leonard Marshall. In...

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  • 1965
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    Public Eye

    Public Eye

    7.8 1965 HD

    Public Eye is a British television series that ran from 1965 to 1975. It was produced by ABC Television for three series, and Thames Television for a...

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  • 1977
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    Robin's Nest

    Robin's Nest

    6.5 1977 HD

    Robin's Nest is a British sitcom starring Richard O'Sullivan as Robin Tripp, one of the lead characters in the sitcom, Man About The House, which had...

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  • 1978
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    The BBC Television Shakespeare

    The 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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  • 1994
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    Scarlett

    Scarlett

    6.6 1994 HD

    Scarlett O’Hara’s flight from the scrutiny of Atlanta society takes her on a journey to Savannah and Charleston, to England, and to...

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  • 1965
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    BBC Play of the Month

    BBC Play of the Month

    5 1965 HD

    Play of the Month is a BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays which were usually broadcast on...

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  • 1973
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    Oh, Father!

    Oh, Father!

    6 1973 HD

    Dominic has left the monastery and become a Roman Catholic priest. Sequel to the sitcom Oh, Brother.

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  • 1968
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    The Jazz Age

    The Jazz Age

    1 1968 HD

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  • 1986
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    Slinger's Day

    Slinger's Day

    5 1986 HD

    Slinger's Day is a British sitcom that aired for two series from 1986 to 1987, made by Thames Television for the ITV network. It was a continuation...

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  • 1980
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    Strumpet City

    Strumpet City

    5 1980 HD

    Strumpet City was a 1980 television miniseries produced by Irish broadcaster RTÉ, based on James Plunkett's 1969 novel Strumpet City. It was...

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  • 1972
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    The Adventurer

    The Adventurer

    5.5 1972 HD

    The Adventurer is an ITC Entertainment TV adventure series created by Dennis Spooner that ran for one season from 1972 to 1973. It premiered in the...

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  • 1991
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    2Point4 Children

    2Point4 Children

    7.194 1991 HD

    They're just your average family. Stressed mum Bill, daft dad Ben, and two troublesome teens. Plus just a few crazy ideas, escapades and mishaps. The...

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  • 2003
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    Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks

    Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks

    5.3 2003 HD

    The adventures of Piggley, a spunky eight-year-old pig, and his friends Dannan the Duck and Ferny the Bull on Raloo Farm in Ireland.

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  • 1980
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    The Gentle Touch

    The Gentle Touch

    7 1980 HD

    The Gentle Touch is a British police drama television series made by London Weekend Television for ITV which ran from 1980-1984. Commencing...

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  • 1980
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    Cowboys

    Cowboys

    7 1980 HD

    Cowboys is a British sitcom that aired on the ITV network during the early 1980s. The show was created by Peter Learmouth whom would go on to create...

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  • 1978
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    The Glums

    The Glums

    1 1978 HD

    The Glums began as part of the 1950s radio show 'Take It from Here'. The characters were revived in 1978 as part of the 'Bruce Forsyth's Big Night'...

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  • 1978
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    The Last of Summer

    The Last of Summer

    1 1978 HD

    A French actress returns to her Irish roots during the last summer before World War II. While there, she must come to grips with her family and the...

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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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  • 1956
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    Armchair Theatre

    Armchair Theatre

    5.8 1956 HD

    Armchair Theatre is a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally...

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  • 1964
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    The Wednesday Play

    The Wednesday Play

    4.5 1964 HD

    The Wednesday Play is an anthology series of British television plays which ran on BBC1 from October 1964 to May 1970. The plays were usually written...

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  • 1953
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    General Electric Theater

    General Electric Theater

    6 1953 HD

    General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was...

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  • 1964
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    The Wednesday Play

    The Wednesday Play

    4.5 1964 HD

    The Wednesday Play is an anthology series of British television plays which ran on BBC1 from October 1964 to May 1970. The plays were usually written...

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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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  • 1956
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    Armchair Theatre

    Armchair Theatre

    5.8 1956 HD

    Armchair Theatre is a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally...

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  • 1956
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    Armchair Theatre

    Armchair Theatre

    5.8 1956 HD

    Armchair Theatre is a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally...

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  • 1956
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    Armchair Theatre

    Armchair Theatre

    5.8 1956 HD

    Armchair Theatre is a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally...

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