Acting

Pete Murray

Acting credits

Peeping Tom poster
7.5

Loner Mark Lewis works at a film studio during the day and, at night, takes racy photographs of women. Also he's making a documentary on fear, which involves recording the reactions of victims as he murders them. He befriends Helen, the daughter of the family living in the apartment below his, and he tells her vaguely about the movie he is making.

Peeping Tom

1960

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NR

British television horror movie from 1950.

The Poltergeist

1950

Radio Wonderful poster
NR

This documentary is about the first five years of BBC Radio 1 and contains interviews with the disc jockeys and other folk who were involved in the station's inception. It also contains footage from the previous pirate radio era as a means of explaining why Radio 1 came about.

Radio Wonderful

1973

My Brother Jonathan poster
6.8

Jonathan Dakers' early ambition was to become a great surgeon and to marry Edie Martyn. But, on the death of his father, he is obliged to start work as a partner in a poor general practice in the Black Country. Edie falls in love with Jonathan's brother, Harold, who is killed in the Great War, and Jonathan marries her as planned. It is only afterwards that he realises he now loves another.

My Brother Jonathan

1948

Otley poster
6.3

A petty crook finds himself mistaken for a murderer and a secret agent.

Otley

1969

6.5 Special poster
10.0

A spin-off from the BBC television show. At the suggestion of her girlfriend, a young singer decides to try and make her name in London. Catching the overnight '6.5 Special' the two find the train full of 1950's British pop stars only too ready to burst into song. As the presenters of the show are also on board, our heroine is assured of a spot on the following Saturday's 'Six Five Special'.

6.5 Special

1958

Captain Boycott poster
7.2

In 19th-century Ireland, when poverty-stricken tenants dispossessed by greedy landowner Captain Charles Boycott band together to assert their rights, patriotic farmer Hugh Davin leads the rebels. Choosing nonviolent resistance, the villagers ostracise their nemesis, who squanders his fortune to repair his ruined reputation and wagers what's left on a horse race.

Captain Boycott

1947

The Man Within poster
6.8

A man goes on the run from hardened smugglers.

The Man Within

1947

Hungry Hill poster
5.8

Life becomes a tragedy for the wife of an Irish heir to a 19th-century family feud and fortune.

Hungry Hill

1947

Caravan poster
6.7

During the last half of the 19th century writer Richard Darrell saves Don Carlos from two robbers, and is entrusted by Don Carlos to take a valuable necklace to Spain. Richard leaves his fiancé, Oriana, and starts the trip. He meets Wycroft, a henchman for Sir Francis Castteldow, an aristocrat out to steal Oriana from Richard. The latter is assaulted, robbed and nearly killed and, as a result, loses his memory. He marries a gypsy girl, Rosal, while Oriana, thinking him dead marries the dastardly Sir Francis. Everybody will meet again. Complications will arise.

Caravan

1946

Pete Murray Takes You to Hastings poster
NR

Pete Murray takes you along his travels through the picturesque and historical coastal town of Hastings.

Pete Murray Takes You to Hastings

1983

Pete Murray Takes You to Coventry poster
NR

A celebration of Coventry's history & rich industrial heritage.

Pete Murray Takes You to Coventry

1983

No artwork available
8.0

An elderly spinster plans a perfect robbery in Soho.

A Taste of Money

1960

Simon Simon poster
6.7

A comedy short with very little speaking. Graham Stark and John Junkin have a new elevated platform to work with but still manage to get into lots of trouble. Lots of celebrity appearances.

Simon Simon

1970

Blondes: Diana Dors poster
9.0

Celebrating the life and career of legendary British blonde bombshell Diana Dors, who died in 1984. Friends remember her affectionately and film clips illustrate her big screen movie roles.

Blondes: Diana Dors

1999

Time Flies poster
6.0

The Professor (Felix Aylmer) is showing Susie (Evelyn Dall) around his time machine when it accidently takes off with Tommy (Tommy Handley) and Bill (George Moon) also on board. They are transported to Elizabethan England where they come across Walter Raleigh, William Shakespeare, Queen Elizabeth 1, Captain John Smith and Pocohontas. Will our time travellers return?

Time Flies

1944

Portrait from Life poster
6.3

A British army officer becomes fascinated by the portrait of a young woman. He travels to Germany to find her, only to discover that she is suffering from amnesia.

Portrait from Life

1948

The Cool Mikado poster
9.0

In this musical, the Gilbert and Sullivan classic is updated and set in post-war Japan. This time, the trouble begins when a soldier, the son of a Yankee judge, falls in love with a Japanese girl. This enrages her Yakuza fiancé who kidnaps him.

The Cool Mikado

1963

Eurovision Secrets & Scandals poster
NR

A revelatory documentary uncovering amazing stories about what really goes on behind the scenes at Eurovision. With contributions from former winner Cheryl Baker, former loser Andy Abraham and former host Jan Leeming.

Eurovision Secrets & Scandals

2022

Alice Through the Looking Box poster
NR

A Christmas TV special in which Alice does not go through a looking glass, but through a TV set.

Alice Through the Looking Box

1960

The Rank Charm School poster
NR

Documentary about The Company of Youth, The Rank Organisation’s training school for aspirant film actors, nicknamed The Rank Charm School.

The Rank Charm School

1982

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6.7

Follows a beatnik artist who becomes a top fashion designer.

Design for Loving

1962

Under the Table You Must Go poster
8.0

A trip around the clubs, pubs and discotheques in London, England.

Under the Table You Must Go

1970

The Very Strange Story of the Legendary Joe Meek poster
8.0

Documentary about the influential pop composer and record producer Joe Meek, who died in dramatic circumstances in 1967 after a bizarre childhood and a career, often controversial, which spanned the period from the mid-50s to the rise of the Beatles in the 60s. At the end of his life he was suffering from paranoid delusions that people were watching him through walls. Alan Lewens' film charts an Ortonesque tale of post-war Britain.

The Very Strange Story of the Legendary Joe Meek

1991