Derrick Branche

Acting

Derrick Branche

Place of birth

Mumbai, India

Known for

Acting

Credits

19 titles

Known for

Film credits

1980s · 5 titles

Series credits

Minder poster
7.2

Roguish comedy drama following the misadventures of small-time crook Arthur Daley.

Minder

1979

The Comic Strip Presents... poster
7.4

The Comic Strip is a group of British comedians, who do parodies of films, literature and sometimes major events.

The Comic Strip Presents...

1982

Blake's 7 poster
7.3

A group of convicts and outcasts fight a guerrilla war against the totalitarian Terran Federation from a highly advanced alien spaceship.

Blake's 7

1978

Father Ted poster
8.2

A crazy comedy about three rather strange parish priests exiled to Craggy Island, a remote island off the Irish west coast.

Father Ted

1995

The Jewel in the Crown poster
6.5

In India, during the final years of British rule in World War II, an unjust arrest for rape sets off questions of identity and personal responsibility being explored against a background of war and personal intrigue.

The Jewel in the Crown

1984

Only When I Laugh poster
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Only When I Laugh is an ITV1 sitcom broadcast from 29 October 1979 to 16 December 1982 for four series with seven episodes each, and a Christmas special in 1981. The title is the answer to the question, "Does it hurt?" A naïve middle-class man is admitted to an NHS hospital ward, shared with a working-class layabout and an upper-class hypochondriac. The trio never fail to cause a nuisance for the poor, unsuspecting staff.

Only When I Laugh

1979

Into the Labyrinth poster
7.1

Three children stumble upon imprisoned sorcerer Rothgo and are drawn into a mysterious search through time for the magical Nidus, which has been stolen by the evil witch Belor.

Into the Labyrinth

1981

Mitch poster
5.0

Mitch is a newspaper reporter with a difference, he cares about the people he reports.

Mitch

1984

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A series of eight dramatic reconstructions of stories which made the headlines.

Life at Stake

1978

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NR

Black Silk is a ground breaking 8-part BBC drama series broadcast in 1985. Created by Mustapha Matura and Rudy Narayan, it stars Rudolph Walker as Larry Scott, a charismatic, politically ambitious, and fiercely driven Black barrister advocating for minority communities in London. The series primarily follows Larry Scott taking on tough, complex legal cases while balancing his career with pressing events in his personal and professional life. Alongside Scott, the show highlights key characters like his clerk Julie Smythe, played by Kika Markham, and his mother Marjorie Scott, portrayed by Mona Hammond

Black Silk

1985

Wipe Out poster
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Prison psychologist John Fairling heads a secretive research project, aimed at controlling the inmates' minds but instead encouraging their evil urges. After three warders are murdered, Fairling disappears and all records of him are wiped.

Wipe Out

1988