Acting

Elizabeth Romilly

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Acting

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7 titles

Known for

Rumpole of the Bailey poster
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Rumpole of the Bailey is a British television series created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer. It stars Leo McKern as Horace Rumpole, an aging London barrister who defends any and all clients, and has been spun off into a series of short stories, novels, and radio programmes.

Rumpole of the Bailey

1975

A Ghost Story for Christmas poster
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A strand of annual British short television adaptations of classic ghost stories, referencing the oral tradition of telling supernatural tales at Christmas. First broadcast on BBC One from 1971 to 1978, and revived in 2005 on BBC Four.

A Ghost Story for Christmas

1971

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Anthology of self-contained dramas that aired from 1977 to 1978.

The Sunday Drama

1977

Hennessy poster
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Former Irish Republican Army member Niall Hennessy lives in Belfast, Ireland, with his wife and daughter amid the ongoing Irish-British conflict. Though he still knows people in the IRA, including fugitive leader Tobin, Niall has given up his violent ways. One day his family is caught in a chaotic street shootout and killed by British forces. Overwhelmed with rage and hunted by a Scotland Yard inspector, Niall heads to London to exact his deadly revenge.

Hennessy

1975

Secrets of a Door-to-Door Salesman poster
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Lobster fisherman David decides to seek his fortune in London where he finds lodging in a boarding house for girls.

Secrets of a Door-to-Door Salesman

1973

The Cause poster
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"I wish I could write ... about what Spain was like - a real cause. Not just Cornford, Hemingway and Orwell, but the ordinary blokes who went." A confused industrial dispute at a London hospital triggers off in trade unionist George Harley 's mind memories of his days fighting in the Spanish Civil War, when the issues seemed so much clearer.

The Cause

1981

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