
Acting
Michael Praed
Born 1960-04-01 · Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England, UK
Michael Praed (born Michael David Prince) is an English film and television actor, best known for his role as Robin of Loxley (Robin Hood) in the British television series "Robin of Sherwood".
Acting credits
4.7A scientific group set out on a journey into space to find a magical creature. What they find is a killer computer on the ship they chartered.
Nightflyers
1987
5.3Very much in love, Neil's wedding plans are sabotaged, beginning when he is abandoned, naked, on a Scottish island. A road trip ensues, with Neil encountering many obstacles as he makes his way to London for what he believes is to be his wedding day. Or is it?
Staggered
1994
NRHis family massacred by Norman soldiers, Robin takes on the mantle of the Hooded Man, a champion long prophesied. His first challenge is to free Maid Marion from the clutches of the evil, powerful Baron de Belleme. The feature-length pilot for the popular TV series.
Robin of Sherwood: Robin Hood and the Sorcerer
1984
6.0The film explores the background and build-up to this final flight to disaster. Using dramatic reconstruction, archive footage and exclusive interviews with leading historians and engineering experts, the special delves into the political and scientific events that led up to the catastrophe.
Hindenburg: Titanic of the Skies
2007
4.2A tragic accident leaves behind a desperate husband looking for answers - and revenge. Mark and Sally Driscoll appear to have it all but appearances can be deceiving. Mark is about to close the deal that will save his life. Sally leads a life of luxury, ignorant of her husband's sexual betrayals. They are suddenly confronted by a strange intruder who is determined to get to the truth. Before the night is over, all their darkest secrets are revealed.
Darkness Falls
1999
NRDocumentary. September 1970: a BOAC flight with 20 school children on board was hijacked in the name of a Palestinian guerrilla group; the first and last time a British commercial aircraft has ever been hijacked. With hijacks attempted on five planes in total, this was just one part of an audacious plan called Skyjack Sunday. With interviews from hostages and their hijackers, Timewatch goes back to the time when air travel changed for ever.
Hijack
2007
5.9The story of two lads from Belfast as they stumble their way through the London gay underworld in search of 'gainful employment'. This being the offering of sexual favours to older gay men in order to subsidise their respective giros. 9 Dead Gay Guys is a high-camp send-up of gay stereotypes.
9 Dead Gay Guys
2002
3.0Vampires come to town. Who's a vampire? Who's not? Ask our main character, who is suspicious, and our main character's brother, who gets seduced by one.
Son of Darkness: To Die For II
1991
5.0Arrogant aristocrat Rupert Campbell-Black has high social position, women at his feet, money and fame in the world of show jumping. But Rupert has a rival - the brooding gypsy Jake Lovell, whose loathing for the "Pin Up of Penscombe" has driven him to the top of the riding world to match Rupert's skills. A bitter feud festers between the two stars, who have fought and fornicated their way round the show rings of the world, and now comes to a showdown at the Los Angeles Olympics. As rivals in love and sport, the stage is set for what becomes a compulsive blend of sex, romance, and adventure.
Riders
1993
10.0A female writer of popular thrillers decides that it is time to kill off one of her characters, a serial killer who has appeared in many of her recent books. Soon afterward, she finds herself pursued by a copy-cat serial killer.
Writer's Block
1991
NRThirty years ago, Communist Cambodian leader Pol Pot set about establishing a nation of people living to serve the state. He insisted that anything private, right down to his subjects' thoughts and emotions, were immoral. When Pol Pot's plan to increase rice production failed, he declared it was due to enemies within the party. Thus began the purge of some of Pol Pot's most devoted followers and their families.
Pol Pot: The Journey to the Killing Fields
2005
No synopsis available yet.
The Pharaoh's Lost City
2008
NRDocumentary following two families of big cats and a migration of 500,000 wildebeests during the wet season in the Serengeti National Park, Tanzania, over 24 hours.
Serengeti 24
2005
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Les Minoens: La civilisation engloutie
2010
NREpitomising all the glamorous hedonism of the Roaring Twenties, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald were a legendary couple, but their relationship was notoriously volatile and though both passionate and tender it was also mutually destructive in many respects.
Beautiful and Damned
2004
No synopsis available yet.
Julius Caesar's Greatest Battle
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6.0During World War II, a psychological analysis of the person Adolf Hitler was prepared in the United States in the hope of predicting his strategies.
Inside the Mind of Adolf Hitler
2005