Michael Kitchen

biography:
Michael Kitchen (born 31 October 1948 in Leicester) is an English actor and television producer, best known for his starring role as DCS Foyle in the British TV series Foyle's War.

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Thriller

overview: Thriller is a British television series, originally broadcast in the UK from 1973 to 1976. It is an anthology series: each episode has a self-contained story and its own cast. As the title suggests, each story is a thriller of some variety, from tales of the supernatural to down-to-earth whodunits.

character: George Newton

original_name: Thriller

original_language: en

Tales of the Unexpected

overview: A British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and a twist at the end. With early episodes written and presented by Roald Dahl, the series featured a plethora of big name guest stars.

character: Arthur

original_name: Tales of the Unexpected

A Touch of Frost

overview: Jack Frost is a gritty, dogged and unconventional detective with sympathy for the underdog and an instinct for moral justice who attracts trouble like a magnet. Despite some animosity with his superintendent, Norman “Horn-rimmed Harry” Mullett, Frost and his ever-changing roster of assistants manage to solve cases via his clever mind, good heart, and cool touch.

character: Jonathan Meyerbridge

original_name: A Touch of Frost

Mobile

overview: Mobile is a 4-part British television drama series with an interweaving plot based around a fictional mobile phone operator and the adverse-effect of mobile phone radiation to health. The series was screened by ITV in the United Kingdom, during March 2007. The cast includes Jamie Draven, Neil Fitzmaurice, Keith Allen, Sunetra Sarker, Samantha Bond, Brittany Ashworth and Julie Graham. It was written by John Fay.

character: David West

original_name: Mobile

Inspector Morse

overview: Inspector Morse is a detective drama based on Colin Dexter's series of Chief Inspector Morse novels. The series starred John Thaw as Chief Inspector Morse and Kevin Whately as Sergeant Lewis, as well as a large cast of notable actors and actresses.

character: Russell Clark

original_name: Inspector Morse

Foyle's War

overview: As WW2 rages around the world, DCS Foyle fights his own war on the home-front as he investigates crimes on the south coast of England. Foyle's War opens in southern England in the year 1940. Later series sees the retired detective working as an MI5 agent operating in the aftermath of the war.

character: DCS Foyle

original_name: Foyle's War

Lovejoy

overview: The adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East Anglia. Within the trade, he has a reputation as a “divvie”, a person with an almost supernatural powers for recognising exceptional items as well as distinguishing genuine antique from clever fakes or forgeries.

character: David Herbert

original_name: Lovejoy

Beasts

overview: Beasts is a series of six television plays by Manx writer Nigel Kneale, unconnected save for a bestial horror theme, made by ATV for ITV in the United Kingdom and broadcast in 1976. The series avoids typical monster horror clichès, moreso focusing on psychological and supernatural themes.

character: Bob Curry

original_name: Beasts

Second Sight

overview: Maverick cop DCI Ross Tanner finds out that he has a rare disease which is causing him to go blind.

original_name: Second Sight

Play for Today

overview: 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 than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.

character: Dick Foster

original_name: Play for Today

Fall of Eagles

overview: "Fall of Eagles" is a 13-part British television drama aired by the BBC in 1974. The series portrays historical events from 1848 to 1918, dealing with the collapse of the ruling dynasties of Austria-Hungary (the Habsburgs), Germany (the Hohenzollerns) and Russia (the Romanovs).

character: Trotsky

original_name: Fall of Eagles

Oliver Twist

overview: When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and his criminal mentor, Fagin. When kindly Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver in, Fagin's evil henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy.

character: Mr. Brownlow

original_name: Oliver Twist

Orson Welles' Great Mysteries

overview:
Orson Welles’ Great Mysteries is a British television anthology series produced by Anglia Television for the ITV network and broadcast between 1973 and 1974. The series presents standalone adaptations of classic mystery, crime, and supernatural stories drawn from literary sources including Dickens, Conan Doyle, Wilkie Collins, Balzac, Maugham, O. Henry, and others.

Each episode is framed by original introductory and closing sequences performed by Orson Welles, who serves as the series’ host and sole recurring on-screen presence. These segments, written and directed by Welles (uncredited), function as stylized narrative framing devices rather than dramatic participation in the stories themselves. The dramatic content of each episode is performed by separate casts and directors, with no continuing characters or serialized narrative, establishing the series as a unified television anthology rather than a collection of standalone films.

character: Herbert White

original_name: Orson Welles' Great Mysteries

Lady Killers

overview: Compelling crime anthology looks at some of Britain's most notorious murder trials, in which both male and female defendants stood accused of the murder of women. Presented by Robert Morley, seven hour-long dramas reconstruct sensational trials which shocked Britain, offering in-depth analyses of individuals' motives and methods.

character: Reverend Father M'Enery

original_name: Lady Killers

Sunnyside Farm

overview: Sunnyside Farm is the title of a 1997 BBC comedy television series. The basic plot was that brothers Ray and Ken Sunnyside inherited the failing Sunnyside Farm. Ray, played by Phil Daniels, is a truly repulsive individual, and intends to get his brother committed to a mental institution so he can sell the farm and blow the proceeds on the high life; Ken, while not the sharpest pencil in the box at least has a few redeeming characteristics. Other notable actors to appear in the series were Matt Lucas and Michael Kitchen. The show's theme music was written and performed by Damon Albarn and Phil Daniels although it was credited to Albarn's band Blur.

original_name: Sunnyside Farm

Reckless

overview:
Reckless is a British television serial written by Paul Abbott. Produced by Granada Television for ITV, it aired in six parts from 6 February to 13 March 1997.

Owen Springer is a Junior Doctor who falls for the sophisticated and glamorous Anna Fairley. Little does he know that she is married to his boss, consultant Richard Crane.

character: Richard Crane

original_name: Reckless

Dandelion Dead

overview: This is a dramatisation of the true story of Major Herbert Rowse Armstrong, a solicitor and magistrate's clerk who lived in the small Welsh town of Hay-on-Wye. In 1921 he was arrested and charged with poisoning his domineering wife, Catherine, and later attempting to poison a business rival, Oswald Martin, by administering arsenic to them. At his trial, Armstrong claimed that he had bought the arsenic simply to kill the dandelions on his lawn. However he was convicted of murder and executed in 1922.

character: Major Herbert Rowse Armstrong

original_name: Dandelion Dead

A History of Britain

overview:
Stretching from the Stone Age to the year 2000, Simon Schama's Complete History of Britain does not pretend to be a definitive chronicle of the turbulent events which buffeted and shaped the British Isles. What Schama does do, however, is tell the story in vivid and gripping narrative terms, free of the fustiness of traditional academe, personalising key historical events by examining the major characters at the centre of them. Not all historians would approve of the history depicted here as shaped principally by the actions of great men and women rather than by more abstract developments, but Schama's way of telling it is a good deal more enthralling as a result.

Schama successfully gives lie to the idea that the history of Britain has been moderate and temperate, passing down the generations as stately as a galleon, taking on board sensible ideas but steering clear of sillier, revolutionary ones. Nonsense. Schama retells British history the way it was--as bloody, convulsive, precarious, hot-blooded and several times within an inch of haring off onto an entirely different course. Schama seems almost to delight in the goriness of history. Themes returned to repeatedly include the wars between the Scots and the Irish and the Catholic/Protestant conflicts--only the Irish question remains unresolved by the new millennium. As Britain becomes a constitutional monarchy, Schama talks less of Kings and Queens but of poets and idea-makers like Orwell. Still, with his pungent, direct manner and against an evocative visual and aural backdrop, Schama makes history seem as though it happened yesterday, the bloodstains not yet dry.

character: Reader

original_name: A History of Britain

Brian Pern: A Life in Rock

overview: Brian Pern is an ageing rock star and former front-man of ground breaking progressive rock group Thotch. Like many artists of his age, rather than make new music, he spends more time trying to save the planet (including his campaign to teach gorillas how to Skype). Now, the BBC have asked him to front a major new documentary where he presents his guide to The Life Of Rock from prehistoric man to the present day.

character: John Farrow

original_name: Brian Pern: A Life in Rock

Thriller

character: Ian

Chancer

overview: Chancer is a British television serial produced by Central Television for ITV. It tells the story of a likable conman and rogue at the end of the yuppie eighties. There were a total of twenty episodes, split into two series which aired on Tuesdays at 21:00 in 1990 and 1991.

character: Roman

original_name: Chancer

Rik Mayall Presents

overview: Showcasing the talent and versatility of its star, Rik Mayall Presents comprises six episodes of dark humour spread over two series, where he plays such diverse roles as a paranoid TV show host, an uncontrollable liar who pretends to be a gangster and a man on a date who is trapped in a cycle of escalating comic violence!

character: Jeremy Swain

original_name: Rik Mayall Presents

Minder

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

character: Maltese Tony

original_name: Minder

Stay Lucky

overview:
Drama about a small-time gangster Thomas Gynn (Dennis Waterman) from London who discovers a new life up north in Yorkshire. Helping widowed, self-sufficient businesswoman Sally Hardcastle (Jan Francis) when her car breaks down on the motorway, Thomas reluctantly accepts an offer of a lift to Leeds.

Over the coming months, the two become involved in a series of misadventures that soon find them being drawn closer together.

original_name: Stay Lucky

Pie in the Sky

overview: Pie in the Sky is a British offbeat police comedy drama programme starring Richard Griffiths and Maggie Steed, created by Andrew Payne and first broadcast in five series on BBC1 between 13 March 1994 and 17 August 1997 as well as being syndicated on other channels in other countries, including the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The series departs slightly from other police dramas in that the protagonist, Henry Crabbe, while still being an on-duty policeman, is also the head chef of the title restaurant set in the fictional town of Middleton and county of Westershire.

character: Dudley Hooperman

original_name: Pie in the Sky

The Brontës of Haworth

overview: Dramatized biography of the Brontë sisters Charlotte, Anne and Emily.

character: Branwell Brontë

original_name: The Brontës of Haworth

Play for Today

character: Alan

The Advocates

overview: Set in Edinburgh, the series contrasts the high powered and respectable world of the lawyers and advocates of the Scottish legal profession, with the sleazy and deadly existence of the city's pimps, prostitutes and drug addicts. When a young prostitute is murdered by a deadly drug overdose, only Doctor Joe Sangster, who has been treating her at the local health clinic, suspects foul play. In the growing climate of fear over drugs and AIDS in the city, his clinic faces closure due to a local campaign. He turns to Greg McDowell for help, and the young lawyer sees the chance to make a name for himself.

original_name: The Advocates

To Play the King

overview: Francis Urquhart's survival at the top is threatened by the new king's populist agenda.

character: The King

original_name: To Play the King

White Heat

overview: In 1965, seven students meet and, despite being an assorted mix of people, become friends while they share a flat together in London. As time passes, their lives intertwine with each other as they feel the impact of political developments and the outbreak of war and disease.

character: Jack (present day)

original_name: White Heat

Wilderness

overview: Alice White has a painfully sinister secret: once a month, when the moon is full, she locks herself away and transforms into a she-wolf. Struggling with her affliction, she becomes involved in a strange triangle between her analyst and another man who may be the key to salvation.

character: Luther Adams

original_name: Wilderness

Between the Lines

overview: Detective Superintendent Tony Clark is an ambitious member of the Complaints Investigation Bureau, an internal organisation that investigates claims of corruption inside the police in England and Wales. Along the way Clark overcomes strong influence from his superiors and problems in his private life, most notably the break-up of his marriage following an affair with WPC Jenny Dean.

character: Roger Boshier

original_name: Between the Lines

Shakespeare: The Animated Tales

overview: An animated adaptation of twelve of Shakespeare's best-known plays. The series was produced by S4C for the BBC, but animated by some of the foremost artists of Soyuzmultfilm, the former Soviet Union's main animation studio. Each 26-minute play is directed by a different animator, in a wide variety of styles: cel animation for Macbeth, stop-motion puppets in Twelfth Night, and paint on glass for Hamlet.

character: Narrator (voice)

original_name: Shakespeare: The Animated Tales

character: Polixenes (voice)

The Buccaneers

overview: Because of their "new money" background, four American girls have difficulty breaking into the upper-crust society of New York. Laura Testvalley, the governess of one of the girls, suggests a London season and thus the young women set sail for England and the unsuspecting English aristocracy. In England, all the girls soon find eligible husbands and the youngest girl, Nan, seems to land the best husband of them all: the handsome and very wealthy Julius, Duke of Trevennick. The girls soon discover that English upper-class men are not at all what they expected and hoped for.

character: Sir Helmsley Thwaite

original_name: The Buccaneers

The Hanging Gale

overview:
The Hanging Gale is a four-episode television serial which first aired on RTÉ One and BBC1 in 1995. The series was a British–Irish co-production, made by Little Bird Films for BBC Northern Ireland in association with Raidió Teilifís Éireann, with support from the Irish Film Board.

The serial, set in 1846 at the beginning of Ireland's Great Famine, starred the four McGann brothers: Joe McGann, Paul McGann, Mark McGann and Stephen McGann, and was based on an original idea by Joe and Stephen McGann while researching their family's history.

The title of the series comes from the term 'hanging gale', the name for a widespread practice in Ireland at the time, where a landlord would allow new tenants a six-month grace period on payment of their rent, with the expectation that the rent owed would be paid when the land's crops were harvested and sold.

Lorna Doone

overview: Passionate love story set in 17th century rural England, charting the young John Ridd's search for revenge after his father's murder, and the chance encounter with beautiful Lorna Doone that changes the course of his life.

The Professionals

overview:
The lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their controller, George Cowley.

The mandate of CI5 was to fight terrorism and similar high-profile crimes. Cowley, a hard ex-MI5 operative, hand-picked each of his men. Bodie is a cynical ex-SAS paratrooper and mercenary whose nature ran to controlled violence, while his partner, Doyle, comes to CI5 from the regular police force, and is more of an open minded liberal. Their relationship is often contentious, but they are the top men in their field, and the ones to whom Cowley always assigned to the toughest cases.

Playhouse

overview: A one-hour anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas produced by the BBC.

Harry Enfield and Chums

overview: Harry Enfield, Kathy Burke, Paul Whitehouse and others take on an array of oddball characters and old-time favorites in this sketch comedy show.

Thirty-Minute Theatre

overview: An anthology of short plays shown on BBC Television between 1965 and 1973, used in part at least as a training ground for new writers, on account of its short length, and which therefore attracted many writers who later became well known.

BBC Play of the Month

overview: A BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stage actors in the leading roles. The series was transmitted from October 1965 to September 1983.

Screen Two

overview: Series of single made-for-television dramas.

Churchill's People

overview: Churchill's People is a British anthology series based on A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Winston Churchill's four-volume history of Britain and its former colonies. 26 episodes were produced by the BBC and initially broadcast from 30 December 1974 to 23 June 1975.

The Secret World of Michael Fry

overview: Council Planner Michael Fry uncovers a sinister plot in his Welsh seaside home town, and finds himself caught in a growing tide of corruption and sleazy internet sex.

Freud

overview:
Freud, also known as Freud: The Life of a Dream, is a 1984 six-part BBC television serial dramatised by Carey Harrison, and starring David Suchet as Austrian psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud.

Each episode begins with Freud and his family in London, where they had fled from Vienna in 1938 following the Nazi Anschluss, leading up to Freud's death a little over a year later. The rest of the episodes are told mainly in flashbacks to key moments in Freud's life and career

Centre Play

overview: Anthology series of half hour plays produced in BBC's Television Centre's studios.

Country Matters

overview: An anthology series adapted from plays and short stories by A.E Coppard and H.E. Bates, depicting English country life and rural romance at the turn of the 20th-century. It presents unsentimental stories of human relationships and raw emotions – heartfelt passions, crippling frustrations, unspoken love and destructive jealousy.

The Drilling Fields

overview: This documentary first aired on British TV in May 1994 during the height of the Ogoni conflict in which a small Nigerian minority, the Ogoni, rose up against the oppression and exploitation perpetrated by Shell in their collaboration with the Nigerian military government and powerful Western economic interests.  The peaceful Ogoni protests were violently ended by the military government in 1995 with the unlawful hanging of Ken Saro-Wiwa, a writer, journalist and activist for the Ogoni people. Saro-Wiwa succeeded in reaching out to the international community to put pressure on those holding the Ogoni hostage. In the end, he may not have achieved all the goals set out by the Ogoni, but he drew attention to social grievances which were falsely believed to be exclusive to the colonial era.

ITV Playhouse

overview: ITV Playhouse is a British comedy-drama TV series that ran from 1967 to 1983, which featured contributions from playwrights such as Dennis Potter, Rhys Adrian and Alan Sharp. The series began in black and white, but was later shot in colour and was produced by various companies for the ITV network, a format that would inspire Dramarama. Actors appearing in the series included Leslie Anderson, Gwen Nelson, Ricky Alleyne, Pat Heywood, Michael Elphick, Ian Hendry, Edward Woodward, Margaret Lockwood, Jessie Matthews and Lloyd Peters.

Dalziel and Pascoe

overview: In the fictional Yorkshire town of Wetherton, the unlikely duo of politically incorrect elephant-in-a-China-shop-copper DS Andrew Dalziel (pronounced Dee-ell) and his more sensitive and university educated sidekick DS, later DI, Peter Pascoe is always on hand to solve the classic murder mystery, while maintaining down-to-Earth wit and humour.

New Scotland Yard

overview: New Scotland Yard is a police drama series produced by London Weekend Television for ITV from 1972 and 1974. It features the activities of two officers from the Criminal Investigations Department in the Metropolitan Police force headquarters at New Scotland Yard, as they dealt with the assorted villains of the day.

The Justice Game

overview: Criminal lawyer Dominic Rossi returns Glasgow and an unprovoked murder that leads to an investigation in to corruption at the hands of a Mr Big called Tim Forsythe.

A Divorce

overview: Laurence leaves Linda and moves in with his mistress Gemma. What ensues is a bitter divorce and fight over the custody of their five-year-old son Jason.

Romance

overview: Television adaptations of six books by well-known romantic novelists.

Private Affairs

overview: Series of plays about the romantic entanglements hidden behind the public images of famous historical figures.

The BBC Television Shakespeare

overview: The BBC Television Shakespeare is a series of British television adaptations of the plays of William Shakespeare, created by Cedric Messina and produced by BBC Television. It was transmitted in the UK from 3 December 1978 to 27 April 1985 and spanned seven series. Development of the series began in 1975 when Messina saw that Glamis Castle would make a perfect location for an adaptation of Shakespeare's play As You Like It. On returning to London, he envisioned an entire series devoted exclusively to the dramatic works of Shakespeare. After encountering numerous problems trying to produce the series, Messina eventually pitched the idea to the BBC’s departmental heads and the series was greenlighted. The series as a whole received generally negative reviews from critics.

character: Antipholus of Ephesus / Antipholus of Syracuse

Seven Faces of Woman

overview: Series of plays examining various aspects of contemporary woman at different ages. The theme song, sung by Charles Aznavour, was a big hit in the summer of 1974.

Late Night Theatre

overview: Late Night Theatre is a UK television anthology series produced by Granada Television, Scottish Television (STV), Southern Television, and Westward Television. Forty-four episodes were aired on ITV (TV network) from 1972–1974.

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迈克尔·基臣

biography: Michael Kitchen（1948 年 10 月 31 日出生于莱斯特）是一位英国演员和电视制片人，因在英国电视连续剧《福伊尔的战争》中饰演 DCS Foyle 而闻名。

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邁克爾·基臣

biography: 邁克爾·基臣（1948 年 10 月 31 日出生於萊斯特）是一位英國演員和電視製片人，因在英國電視聯續劇《福伊爾的戰爭》中飾演 DCS Foyle 而聞名。

title: Out of Africa

overview: Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved to Africa to build a new life for herself. The film is based on her 1937 autobiographical novel.

title: GoldenEye

overview: When a powerful secret defense system is stolen, James Bond is assigned to stop a Russian crime syndicate from using it.

title: Doomsday Gun

overview: Dr Gerald Bull was a genius at designing and building superguns (very large long range guns capable of shooting  at ranges more than 100 miles). When an operational plan by the CIA to export sanctioned arms to apartheid-South Africa through him was exposed, the CIA denied all knowledge and he went to jail. He was later released, and moved to Belgium to start a subsidiary, of which a major project was to help Saddam Hussein build a new supergun capable of firing over 500 miles.

title: Fatherland

overview: Fictional account of what might have happened if Hitler had won the war. It is now the 1960s and Germany's war crimes have so far been kept a secret. Hitler wants to talk peace with the US president. An American journalist and a German homicide cop stumble into a plot to destroy all evidence of the genocide.

title: The Railway Children

overview: At the dawn of the 20th century, following their father's arrest on suspicion of betraying state secrets, the three Waterbury children—Bobbie, Phyllis and Peter—move with their mother to Yorkshire, where they find themselves involved in unexpected dramas along the railway by their new home.

title: The Guilty

overview:
Michael Kitchen stars in this two-part television thriller as Steven Vey, a successful London barrister whose seemingly perfect life takes a devastating turn when a fleeting encounter with his secretary spawns a rape charge. Meanwhile, in a parallel tale, ex-convict Eddy Doyle discovers the man who raised him is not his real father. Doyle searches for his biological dad -- but winds up knee-deep in trouble.
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title: Dracula A.D. 1972

overview: Set in London in the early 1970's, supposedly for teen thrills, Johnny organises a black magic ceremony in a desolate churchyard. The culmination of the ritual, however, is the rejuvenation of Dracula from shrivelled remains. Johnny, Dracula' s disciple, lures victims to the deserted graveyard for his master's pleasure and one of the victims delivered is Jessica Van Helsing. Descended from the Van Helsing line of vampire hunters her grandfather, equipped with all the devices to snare and destroy the Count, confronts his arch enemy in the age-old battle between good and evil.

title: Enchanted April

overview: When married British women Rose Arbuthnot and Lottie Wilkins decide to take a break from their respective spouses, they stay at a castle in Italy for a quiet holiday. Joining the ladies is Caroline Dester, a young socialite, and Mrs. Fisher, an older aristocrat. Liberated from their daily routines, the four women ease into life in rural Italy, and each finds herself transformed by the experience.

title: The Bunker

overview: Dramatization depicting the events surrounding Adolf Hitler's last weeks in and around his underground bunker in Berlin before and during the battle for the city.

title: The Dive

overview: Sundquist and Eidsvold play the two deep sea divers, who agree to do a quick unscheduled dive before taking their Christmas vacation, to help an oil company who's got a oil-valve caught in a trawl. The dive is to take only 5 minutes, and the divers will get a nice bonus. But things go wrong. The diving bell gets tangled in the trawl, and while trying to hoist up the bell, they tear asunder the oxygen tanks. Suddenly the bell is stuck, and the crew is unable to get it up. Caught in a diving bell at the bottom of the sea, rapidly running out of air, both the divers and the crew on the surface are racing against time to find a solution; how to get the two men up ALIVE!

title: The World Is Not Enough

overview: Greed, revenge, world dominance and high-tech terrorism – it's all in a day's work for Bond, who's on a mission to protect a beautiful oil heiress from a notorious terrorist. In a race against time that culminates in a dramatic submarine showdown, Bond works to defuse the international power struggle that has the world's oil supply hanging in the balance.

title: Love Song

overview: The life of a successful student couple at Cambridge University.

title: Home Run

overview: Back in London from abroad, Bill English has it all - smart flat with a river view, flash car and, of course, the beautiful Anna. But he was born and brought up in these parts and everything's changed. Anna asks: 'Where are the ghosts Bill?'

title: Mrs. Dalloway

overview: Clarissa Dalloway looks back on her youth as she readies for a gathering at her house. The wife of a legislator and a doyenne of London's upper-crust party scene, Clarissa finds that the plight of ailing war veteran Septimus Warren Smith reminds her of a past romance with Peter Walsh. In flashbacks, young Clarissa explores her possibilities with Peter.

title: Falling

overview: Television drama based on the novel by Elizabeth Jane Howard. Author Daisy Langrish buys a tranquil country cottage as a bolt-hole from the pressures of her busy London life, but doesn't expect her new home to come complete with a would-be suitor. The day she moves in, local gardener Henry Kent is immediately on hand to help and offer his friendship, but are his intentions sinister?

title: The Trial

overview: Joseph K. awakes one morning, to find two strange men in his room, telling him he has been arrested. Joseph is not told what he is charged with, and despite being "arrested," is allowed to remain free and go to work. But despite the strange nature of his arrest, Joseph soon learns that his trial, however odd, is very real, and tries desperately to spare himself from the court's judgement.

title: The Last Contract

overview: Young police officer Roger is on the trail of the international master assassin, while the assassin follows his plan to murder Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme.

title: Alibi

overview: A thriller with a bit of romance and touches of black humor along the way. Greg is discovered with the dead body of his wife's lover by Marcey, a public servant moonlighting as a waitress at a party thrown by Greg for he and his wife's wedding anniversary. Marcey sets about organizing the slightly neurotic Greg in his attempts to cover up the accident.

title: Brimstone and Treacle

overview: A mysterious stranger inserts himself into a troubled family's life, blurring the lines between good and evil as he cares for their disabled daughter.

title: My Week with Marilyn

overview: London, 1956. Genius actor and film director Laurence Olivier is about to begin the shooting of his upcoming movie, premiered in 1957 as The Prince and the Showgirl, starring Marilyn Monroe. Young Colin Clark, who dreams on having a career in movie business, manages to get a job on the set as third assistant director.

title: Beasts: What Big Eyes

overview: An RSPCA officer is horrified when he discovers a pet shop owner has been conducting experiments on a wolf, searching for proof of lycanthropy. Created as an episode of Nigel Kneale’s “Beasts” horror anthology miniseries.

title: Kidnapped

overview: When Scottish young gentleman David Balfour's father dies, he leaves school to collect his inheritance from uncle Ebenezer, who in turn sells the boy as a future slave to a pirate ship. When staunch Stuart dynasty supporter Alan Breck Stewart accidentally boards the ship, he takes David along on his escape back to Edinburgh. They part and meet again repeatedly, mutually helpful against the Redcoats and respectful, although David is loyal to the English crown, but learns about its cruel oppression. Both ultimately face their adversaries.

title: Caught on a Train

overview: British playwright Stephen Poliakoff's comical teleplay investigates Europe's changing social landscape via three strangers who meet on a train. Peter, an English businessman on an overnight trip through Europe, shares a compartment with a beautiful American woman, Lorraine. But Peter's hope for romance is soon dampened by Lorraine's xenophobia and the arrival of a haughty Viennese aristocrat.

title: Crossing to Freedom

overview: A very proper Englishman becomes saddled with youngsters that he has to help escape Nazi Germany. Adaptation of Nevil Shute's novel.

title: No Man's Land

overview: 'No Man's Land' is a play by Harold Pinter written in 1974 and first performed in 1975. In this 1978, TV adaptation, a seedy poet shows up at the home of a rich writer and they start reminiscing about the 'past,' in a menacing, Pinteresque fashion.

title: Hacks

overview: A satirical swipe at the phone-hacking scandal surrounding the British newspaper industry.

title: Bedroom Farce

overview: Trevor and Susannah, whose marraige is on the rocks, inflict their miseries on their nearest and dearest: three couples whose own relationships are tenuous at best. Taking place sequentially in the three beleaguered couples' bedrooms during one endless Saturday night of co-dependence and dysfunction, beds, tempers, and domestic order are ruffled, leading all the players to a hilariously touching epiphany.

title: Benefactors

overview: Michael Frayn play part of TV series Theatre Night.

title: Rik Mayall Presents: Dirty Old Town

overview: A tramp called Raymond finds his life changes radically when he gets his hands on a sought-after film script.

title: Once the Killing Starts

overview: Married college professor Michael Lane falls in love with one of his students and hatches an elaborate scheme to dispose of his wife, Elizabeth. His murder plot goes as planned. However, he soon receives an anonymous note: "I know what you did, murderer!" Prof. Lane frantically tries to discover who knows his secret...

title: The Kemps: All Gold

overview: Spandau Ballet brothers Martin and Gary Kemp return to the BBC for a New Year comedy documentary special. Rhys Thomas OBE has been given unprecedented behind-the-scenes access to their lives for a whole year, and what a momentous one it’s been - with Martin publishing an explosive biography, his two wives, Pepsi and Shirlie, wanting a divorce, and Gary writing Spandau: The Ballet.

title: Hostage

overview: A weary British spy retreats to a Buenos Aires hotel and recalls his last dirty job, complete with lover.

title: Ball-Trap On The Cote Sauvage

overview:
Joe and Sarah Marriot are a pair of European campers who have pitched their tent for a little R & R at a campsite in France.
 The other families that have come to the site on holiday provide great comedy and plenty of people watching for the Marriots. Of course, you'd expect hilarity from characters dubbed the Fitness Family, Mr. and Mrs. Topless, Fatty Granada, and the In-the-Trades. But the Marriots' enjoyment of observing the outside world turns inward when the entrance of Early Bird, a free-spirited female, shakes up their little nest.

title: School Play

overview: Life in an English public school - with all the parts played by adults.

title: The Imp of the Perverse

overview: A student commits murder. He inherits his victim's estate. For a while, he is content, but finally his conscience starts to trouble him.

title: A Royal Scandal

overview: The doomed marriage of the Prince Regent and Caroline of Brunswick.

title: Is That Your Body, Boy

overview: Follows a PE teacher, whose attempt to impress the need for self-control on his pupils verges on the sadistic.

title: The Secret World of Michael Fry

title: The War That Never Ends

overview: The Peloponnesian Wars (Athens versus Sparta for twenty-seven years) told in the format of news broadcast-like monologues by Theucydides, Plato, and others.

title: The Hanging Gale

overview: In this historical miniseries created for BBC Northern Ireland, four brothers struggle to survive during the Irish potato famine of the 1840s while facing persecution from an agent (Michael Kitchen) of their indifferent English landlord. Looking on in horror as their primary food source dwindles, the Phelan brothers (portrayed by real-life siblings Joe, Mark, Paul and Stephen McGann) are torn between nonviolent protest and bloody revolt.

title: New Year's Day

overview: Two 17-year-old boys mark the new year by doing twelve dangerous but exciting tasks set for them by their friends.

title: Adolf & Eva

overview: Home footage plus reenactments of the life & times of Hitler with his mistress, Eva Braun. Their early days of happiness followed by long separations due the war causing much loneliness for Eva. Up until their suicides in the Bunker as the war was drawing to its inevitable conclusion.

title: Reckless: The Sequel

overview: One year on in their lives, Owen and Anna plan to marry. But Anna's ex-husband may have an other idea. He schemes to rip the couple apart. Can Anna and Owen survive this emotional trauma to become man and wife?

title: The Misanthrope

overview: One man's defiant stand against the hypocrisy of polite society is the theme of Molière's comic masterpiece.  Ian Holm stars in this film set in Paris in the 1920s.

title: Breaking Glass

overview: Breaking Glass is the story of punk singer Kate and her meteoric rise to stardom. Starting out in the rock pubs of London, Kate, assisted by her manager Danny, becomes a huge star overnight. Once at the top the pressure is immense as Kate's band are squeezed out and she is left to cope alone in the spotlight.

title: The Russia House

overview: Barley Scott Blair, a Lisbon-based editor of Russian literature who unexpectedly begins working for British intelligence, is commissioned to investigate the purposes of Dante, a dissident scientist trapped in the decaying Soviet Union that is crumbling under the new open-minded policies.

title: Lorna Doone

overview: The year is 1675. England is threatened by religious and political rivalries. King Charles II's Catholic brother, James, is next in line for the throne, but many Protestants put their faith in Charles' illegitimate son, The Duke of Monmouth. On the king's death, conflict is inevitable... Over seven days journey from London, Exmoor is a primitive and lawless area. Here, farmer Jack Ridd lives with his wife Sarah, son John, and two daughters. The only shadow over their simple life is cast by the notorious outlaw family the Doones. The aristocratic Doones were banished from their ancestral lands and now live through looting, theft, and murder. Their brutality is legendary...

title: The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change

overview: Following World War I, Indy - now fluent in several languages - works as a translator at the controversial Paris Peace Conference, where he once more meets Lawrence of Arabia, and encounters the Arab Prince Faisal and a young Ho Chi Minh. Disillusioned by the hard and cynical realpolitik of international deal-making, he returns home to Princeton, New Jersey after a three-year absence, where he finds his father as cold and distant as ever, and discovers a detrimental change in his boyhood friend, Paul Robeson, caused by bigotry.

original_title: The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change

title: Proof of Life

overview: When Peter Bowman, an American engineer working in a South American country, is captured by anti-government forces, the rebels learn his identity and demand $5 million for his safe return. However, his US employer is on the verge of insolvency and will not provide the ransom. Peter's wife Alice is forced to deal with the matter on her own and she retains the services of freelance professional hostage negotiator Terry Thorne.

title: The Reporters

overview: Two provincial newspaper reporters - one a young idealist starting out on his career, the other an embittered man who previously wrote for a failed national daily - swap views.

title: Hell's Angel

overview: Dick Foster is adopted as a child, but has grown into a youth who causes problems and upsets.

title: The Browning Version

overview: Adaptation of Terence Rattigan's play produced for the BBC in 1985.

title: The Long and the Short and the Tall

overview: Psychological drama about a British patrol in the Burmese jungle who fall out among themselves.

title: The Comedy of Errors

overview: 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 declared war on Syracuse, and will instantly put to death any Syracusean found within their borders unless a ransome's paid. Meanwhile, the son, Antipholus, and his servant, Dromio (also an identical twin), keep running into strangers who seem to know them...

title: Fools of Fortune

overview: A Protestant Irish family is caught up in a conflict between Irish Republicans and the British army.

title: King Lear

overview: An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.

title: Unman, Wittering and Zigo

overview: A new schoolteacher learns that the previous teacher was killed by his students, and he fears the same fate will befall him.

title: A Room for the Winter

overview: James van Santen, a white South African writer facing imminent arrest for acts of sabotage, has escaped to England. He leaves behind him not only a violent political life but also his handsome lover, Stephen. With little money or inclination to work, he fights a battle of wills with his Jamaican landlady, Katherine.

title: Wilderness

overview: In the light of the moon, seduction and pleasure are never what they seem. And neither is Alice White (Amanda Ooms), a beautiful and obsessed woman with a painfully sinister secret: once a month when the moon is full, she locks herself away and transforms into a she-wolf. When a passionate triangle ensues between a psychiatrist who can hardly believe her erotically charged tales and a man who may be her one shot at love, Alice flees to the wilderness where she is free to satiate her most personal and sometimes shocking desires. Originally a three part British TV Mini-series, later released as a single episode on DVD.

title: Sleepwalker

overview: A young American woman visiting her author father in London discovers that her childhood habit of sleepwalking has recurred. She has a vivid dream of witnessing a murder in a strange house - or is it a dream?

title: The Monkey's Paw

overview: An old army sergeant, back in England after long service in India, shows some old friends a strange possession he's acquired - a monkey's paw which can make wishes come true.

title: Hamlet

overview: Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, finds out that his uncle Claudius killed his father to obtain the throne, and plans revenge.

title: Mrs. Weekley's Lover

overview: Mrs. Weekley starts an affair with a young writer named D.H. Lawrence.

title: The Four Beauties

overview: Henry Batley, a bored young journalist in a small town is attracted to both Christie Davenport and her sister Sophie, whilst younger sister Tina is determined to make him hers.

title: Customer Service From Hell

overview: John Cleese training video about customer service

title: The Kemps: All True

overview: Spandau Ballet global superstars Gary and Martin Kemp, their lives, and their careers.

title: The Drilling Fields

overview: This documentary first aired in Britain in May 1994 during the height of the Ogoni conflict in which a small Nigerian minority, the Ogoni, rose up against the oppression and exploitation perpetrated by Shell in their collaboration with the Nigerian military government and powerful Western economic interests.  The peaceful Ogoni protests were violently ended by the military government in 1995 with the unlawful hanging of Ken Saro-Wiwa, a writer, journalist and activist for the Ogoni people. Saro-Wiwa succeeded in reaching out to the international community to put pressure on those holding the Ogoni hostage. In the end, he may not have achieved all the goals set out by the Ogoni, but he drew attention to social grievances which were falsely believed to be exclusive to the colonial era.

title: Savages

overview: A first secretary in the British Embassy in a South American country is kidnapped by a terrorist group to blackmail their Government into releasing 25 political prisoners

title: Out of Africa

title: GoldenEye

title: Doomsday Gun

title: Fatherland

title: The Railway Children

title: The Guilty

title: Dracula A.D. 1972

title: Enchanted April

title: The Bunker

title: The Dive

title: The World Is Not Enough

title: Love Song

title: Home Run

title: Mrs. Dalloway

title: Falling

title: The Trial

title: The Last Contract

title: Alibi

title: Brimstone and Treacle

title: My Week with Marilyn

title: Beasts: What Big Eyes

title: Kidnapped

title: Caught on a Train

title: Crossing to Freedom

title: No Man's Land

title: Hacks

title: Bedroom Farce

title: Benefactors

title: Rik Mayall Presents: Dirty Old Town

title: Once the Killing Starts

title: The Kemps: All Gold

title: Hostage

title: Ball-Trap On The Cote Sauvage

title: School Play

title: The Imp of the Perverse

title: A Royal Scandal

title: Is That Your Body, Boy

title: The Secret World of Michael Fry

title: The War That Never Ends

title: The Hanging Gale

title: New Year's Day

title: Adolf & Eva

title: Reckless: The Sequel

title: The Misanthrope

title: Breaking Glass

title: The Russia House

title: Lorna Doone

title: Proof of Life

title: The Reporters

title: Hell's Angel

title: The Browning Version

title: The Long and the Short and the Tall

title: The Comedy of Errors

title: Fools of Fortune

title: King Lear

title: Unman, Wittering and Zigo

title: A Room for the Winter

title: Wilderness

title: Sleepwalker

title: The Monkey's Paw

title: Hamlet

title: Mrs. Weekley's Lover

title: The Four Beauties

title: Customer Service From Hell

title: The Kemps: All True

title: The Drilling Fields

title: Savages


Tanya Roberts

biography:
Tanya Roberts was an American actress best known for her roles in Charlie's Angels, The Beastmaster, A View to a Kill, Sheena and That '70s Show. Roberts was regarded as one of Hollywood's most popular sex symbols during the early 1980s.

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That '70s Show

overview: Crank up the 8-track and flash back to a time when platform shoes and puka shells were all the rage in this hilarious retro-sitcom. For Eric, Kelso, Jackie, Hyde, Donna and Fez, a group of high school teens who spend most of their time hanging out in Eric’s basement, life in the ‘70s isn’t always so groovy. But between trying to figure out the meaning of life, avoiding their parents, and dealing with out-of-control hormones, they’ve learned one thing for sure: they’ll always get by with a little help from their friends.

character: Midge Pinciotti

original_name: That '70s Show

E! True Hollywood Story

overview: E! True Hollywood Story is an American documentary series on E! that deals with famous Hollywood celebrities, movies, TV shows and also well-known public figures. Among the topics covered on the program include salacious re-tellings of Hollywood secrets, show-biz scandals, celebrity murders and mysteries, porn-star biographies, and "where-are-they-now?" investigations of former child stars. It frequently features in-depth interviews, actual courtroom footage, and dramatic reenactments. When aired on the E! network, episodes will be updated to reflect the current life or status of the subject.

character: Self

original_name: E! True Hollywood Story

Hot Line

overview:
Hot Line is an American erotic anthology series featured on Cinemax during their "After Dark" schedule. The series features simulated sex scenes, and thus can be categorized as "softcore" or "voyeur".

The premise of the show is listeners of a fictional radio show titled, "Hot Line", call in to recount their sexual exploits. Many high-profile porn stars made an appearance on the show. Catherine Bell appears naked in the "Brunch Club" episode.

character: Rebecca

original_name: Hot Line

Greatest Heroes of the Bible

character: Bachemath

original_name: Greatest Heroes of the Bible

Barbershop

overview: Calvin Palmer is the owner of a barbershop on the Southside of Chicago. Reluctantly inheriting the neighborhood establishment and popular hangout from his father, he juggles his responsibilities to his clients, his family, and his community as a cast of unique characters regularly bring their hopes, dreams and problems with them into the shop.

character: Ellie Palmer

original_name: Barbershop

Burke's Law

overview: Burke's Law, a revival of the 1960s cop television series of the same name, aired on CBS from 1994 to 1995. The series centers on Amos Burke, a senior Los Angeles police officer and millionaire, and his son, Peter, who is a detective under his command.

character: Julie Reardon

original_name: Burke's Law

The Love Boat

overview: Passengers who search for romantic nights aboard a beautiful ship travelling to tropical or mysterious countries, decide to pass their vacation aboard the "Love Boat", where Gopher, Dr. Bricker, Isaac, Julie, and Captain Stubing try their best to please them, and sometimes help them fall in love. Things are not always so easy, but in the end, love wins.

character: Diane Dayton

original_name: The Love Boat

Charlie's Angels

overview: Beautiful, intelligent, and ultra-sophisticated, Charlie's Angels are everything a man could dream of... and way more than they could ever handle! Receiving their orders via speaker phone from their never seen boss, Charlie, the Angels employ their incomparable sleuthing and combat skills, as well as their lethal feminine charm, to crack even the most seemingly insurmountable of cases.

character: Julie Rogers

original_name: Charlie's Angels

Eve

overview: Eve is an American sitcom starring Eve, Jason Winston George, Ali Landry, Natalie Desselle-Reid, Brian Hooks and Sean Maguire. It aired on the UPN network from September 15, 2003 to May 11, 2006, with 66 episodes produced spanning 3 seasons. The series follows Shelly, a beautiful and intelligent woman of the new generation trying to navigate the exhilarating world of 21st century love, romance and career. The series was nominated in 2004 for Teen Choice Award for Choice Breakout TV Show and had seven nominations in major awards.

original_name: Eve

The Mike Douglas Show

overview: The Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that originally aired only in the Cleveland area during much of its first two years on the air. It then went into syndication in 1963 and remained on television until 1982. It was distributed by Westinghouse Broadcasting and for much of its run, originated from studios of two of the company's TV stations in Cleveland and Philadelphia.

original_name: The Mike Douglas Show

English

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english_name: English

Deutsch

Tanya Roberts

biography: Tanya Roberts war eine US-amerikanische Schauspielerin, die vor allem für ihre Rollen in Charlie's Angels, The Beastmaster, Im Angesicht des Todes, Sheena und Die wilden Siebziger bekannt war. Anfang der 1980er-Jahre galt Roberts als eines der beliebtesten Sexsymbole Hollywoods.

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english_name: German

Český

biography:
Sheena - královna džungle, bondgirl, Charlieho andílek, to jsou role, které proslavily rodačku z newyorského Bronxu Victorii Leigh Blum alias Tanyu Roberts, jeden z nejpopulárnějších sexsymbolů 80. let. Její rodiče se rozvedli ještě než šla na střední školu, ze které v patnácti odešla, vdala se a autostopem křižovala státy, dokud její tchýně manželství neanulovala. Zpátky v New Yorku se pak ve frontě před kinem seznámila se svým druhým manželem, studentem psychologie a aspirujícím scenáristou Barry Robertsem.

Tanya začala studovat herectví v proslulém Actor´s Studiu u Lee Strassberga a Ute Hagen. Ve svých začátcích se živila jako taneční instruktorka a modelka, první hereckou příležitost dostala v mimobroadwayských hrách a reklamách. Po několika zapomenutelných televizních filmech debutovala na filmovém plátně drsným hororem FORCED ENTRY (1975) a v roce 1977 se s manželem přestěhovali do Hollywoodu, kde natočila další horor, kultovní TOURIST TRAP (1979).

Proslavila se ale až rolí v poslední sérii populárního krimi seriálu CHARLIEHO ANDÍLCI, pro který byla vybrána z 2000 uchazeček. Ztvárnila v něm jednu ze tří titulních agentek jménem Julie Rogers, dívku, kterou ulice naučila spoléhat se spíš na pěsti než na pistoli. Seriál z ní přes noc udělal hvězdu. V roce 1981 se objevila na titulní straně People magazínu a rok nato i na titulní straně Playboye, aby tak propagovala svůj nový film, fantasy PÁN ŠELEM (1982).

Zahrála si v něm pod režijní taktovkou Dona Coscarelliho (série Phantasm) a po boku Marca Singera vedlejší roli otrokyně Kiri a na scénu, kdy se koupe v jezeře a dvě kleptomanské fretky ji uloupí šaty, vzpomíná nejeden mužský divák. Snímek v kinech sice příliš nezabodoval, vysloužil si ale kultovní status nesčetným reprízováním na amerických kabelových stanicích. U fantasy Tanya ještě chvíli zůstala italským snímkem SRDCE A ZBROJ (1983).

Následovala její nejvýznamnější filmová role ve výpravné adaptaci comicsu Willa Eisnera SHEENA (1984), v níž ztvárnila jakousi ženskou verzi Tarzana ovládající zvířata. Tanya se tu poprvé představila s blond hřívou, kterou už nosila po zbytek své kariéry. Ačkoliv film režíroval klasik John Guilermin (King Kong, Skleněné peklo) mající na kontě i dva filmy o Tarzanovi a scénář napsal David Newman, podepsaný mj. pod Supermany, pětadvacetimilionový snímek s tržbami pouhých 5 milionů ošklivě propadl.

Podstatně lépe si vedla VYHLÍDKA NA VRAŽDU (1985), poslední bondovka s Rogerem Moorem, kde si zahrála bondgirl Stacey Sutton, pro níž ji vybral producent Albert Broccoli poté, co ji viděl v Pánovi šelem. 80. léta Tanya uzavřela snímkem Očistec (1988), ve kterém se po Sheeně už podruhé vydala do Afriky, tentokrát jako neprávem odsouzená američanka snažící se probojovat se z ženské věznice. Tento film naznačil, kudy se bude její kariéra ubírat v následujících letech.

Ta se nesla ve znamení erotických thrillerů pro kabelové televize a video, jako NOČNÍ OČI (1990) s Andrewem Stevensem, videohit INNER SANCTUM (1991) Freda Olena Raye, ve kterém si sama dělala choreografii milostných scén či SINS OF DESIRE (1992) Jima Wynorského. Na tomto poli Tanya často soupeřila s bývalou Playboy Playmate Shannon Tweed, s níž se nakonec sešla u erotického seriálu „HOTLINE“. Oživení její skomírající kariéry přinesla v druhé polovině 90. let role v populárním sitcomu THAT ´70. SHOW.

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iso_3166_1: CZ

english_name: Czech

ελληνικά

biography: Η Βικτόρια Λη Μπλουμ (αγγλικά: Victoria Leigh Blum· Μπρονξ, Νέα Υόρκη, 15 Οκτωβρίου 1955 - 4 Ιανουαρίου 2021), γνωστή με το καλλιτεχνικό όνομα Τάνια Ρόμπερτς (Tanya Roberts), ήταν Αμερικανίδα ηθοποιός, φωτομοντέλο και παραγωγός. Έγινε ευρύτερα γνωστή για τις ερμηνείες της ως παρτενέρ του Ρότζερ Μουρ στην ταινία του χαρακτήρα Τζέιμς Μποντ με τίτλο «A View to a Kill» (1985) και ως ένας από τους Άγγελους του Τσάρλι, στο ομώνυμο τηλεοπτικό σίριαλ.

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iso_3166_1: GR

english_name: Greek

Français

biography:
Tanya Roberts, de son vrai nom Victoria Leigh Blum, est une actrice et productrice américaine née le 15 octobre 1949 à Manhattan à New York1 et morte le 4 janvier 2021 dans le quartier de Beverly Grove à Los Angeles.

À seize ans, elle entame une carrière au théâtre et joue plusieurs années à New York avant de s'installer en Californie en 1980. Elle fait du mannequinat, tourne quelques spots publicitaires, pour la marque Ultra Brite notamment, et décide de se présenter, avec 2 000 autres candidates, au casting de la série Drôles de dames, où elle décroche le rôle de la détective Julie Rogers.

Elle s'oriente ensuite vers le cinéma (Le Piège, Dar l'Invincible et Sheena, reine de la jungle). Ce dernier rôle lui vaut d'être remarquée par les producteurs de la série des James Bond pour le rôle de la géologue Stacey Sutton dans Dangereusement vôtre avec Roger Moore. Ce rôle lance sa carrière.

La suite de sa carrière est moins flamboyante[non neutre]. Elle joue dans quelques thrillers érotiques.

Elle tiendra un rôle récurrent dans la sitcom That '70s Show entre 1998 et 2001.

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iso_3166_1: FR

english_name: French

Magyar

biography: Tanya Roberts, születési nevén Victoria Leigh Blum (New York-Bronx, 1949. október 15. – Los Angeles, 2021. január 4.) amerikai színésznő. Modellként kezdte karrierjét, majd Hollywoodban tévé- és filmszerepeket vállalt. Karrierjének fontos állomása volt 1980-ban a Charlie Angyalai, majd 1984-ben elvállalta a Sheena, a dzsungel királynője című film főszerepét, 1985-ben pedig az utolsó, Roger Moore alakította Bond mellett szerepelt a Halálvágtában.

iso_639_1: hu

iso_3166_1: HU

english_name: Hungarian

普通话

坦雅·罗伯兹

biography: Tanya Roberts（1955 年 10 月 15 日 - 2021 年 1 月 4 日）是一位美国女演员

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iso_3166_1: CN

english_name: Mandarin

Pусский

Таня Робертс

biography: Таня Робертс - американская актриса, секс-символ начала 1980-х годов. Настоящее имя - Виктория Ли Блюм. Родилась в Бронксе (Нью-Йорк) в семье ирландца и еврейки. Рано ушла из школы и начала сниматься в рекламе для телевидения и модных журналов. В 19 лет вышла замуж за начинающего сценариста Барри Робертса и поменяла имя на Таня Робертс. Посещала известную нью-йоркскую Актёрскую студию, где в то время преподавали знаменитые театральные педагоги Ли Страсберг и Ута Хаген. Дебют в кино состоялся в 1975 году в фильме ужасов «Насильственное вторжение». В 1977 году вместе с мужем перебрались в Голливуд, где стала регулярно сниматься, в частности, сыграв в 1979 году в культовом фильме ужасов «Путешествие в ад». В 1980 году Робертс получила роль в телесериале «Ангелы Чарли», где конкурс претенденток составлял около 2 тысяч на одно место. Критики невысоко оценивали игру Робертс. Так, за свою роль «королевы джунглей» Шины она была номинирована на премию «Золотая малина» как худшая исполнительница женской роли. За фильм бондианы «Вид на убийство» (1985) она также получила номинацию на премию «Золотая малина», хотя эта роль и принесла ей международную известность. Последовавшие за этим роли в эротических триллерах «Ночное наблюдение» (1990) и «Тайники души» (1991) не способствовали продвижению её актёрской карьеры. Однако в период с 1998 по 2004 годы Робертс с успехом снялась более чем в 80 эпизодах популярного в США сериала «Шоу 1970-х». Таня Робертс умерла в больнице Сидарс-Синай Лос-Анджелеса. Её тело было кремировано, а прах развеян.

iso_639_1: ru

iso_3166_1: RU

english_name: Russian

普通话

妲雅·羅拔絲

biography: 妲雅·羅拔絲（Tanya Roberts，1955 年 10 月 15 日 - 2021 年 1 月 4 日）是一位美國女演員

iso_3166_1: HK

also_known_as:
Victoria Leigh Blum
Таня Робертс
Виктория Ли Блюм

title: A View to a Kill

overview: A newly-developed microchip designed by Zorin Industries for the British Government that can survive the electromagnetic radiation caused by a nuclear explosion has landed in the hands of the KGB. James Bond must find out how and why. His suspicions soon lead him to big industry leader Max Zorin who forms a plan to destroy his only competition in Silicon Valley by triggering a massive earthquake in the San Francisco Bay.

character: Stacey Sutton

original_title: A View to a Kill

title: Inner Sanctum

overview: A woman attempts suicide when she suspects her husband doesn't love her and is having an affair. Now she's wheelchair-bound, and her husband, who indeed doesn't love her and is having an affair, hires a private nurse to look after his wife. The nurse begins to suspect that she was hired because of unproven allegations that she murdered someone's wife in a similar situation, that the husband wants her to murder his wife.

character: Lynn Foster

original_title: Inner Sanctum

title: Sheena

overview: Sheena's parents are killed while on Safari. She is raised by the mystical witch woman of an African tribe. When her foster mother is framed for the murder of a political leader, Sheena and a newsman, Vic Casey, are forced to flee while pursued by the mercenaries hired by the real killer, who hopes to assume power. Sheena's ability to talk to the animals and knowledge of jungle lore give them a chance against the high tech weapons of the mercenaries.

character: Sheena

original_title: Sheena

title: Almost Pregnant

overview: Charlie (Conaway) is a happy man with a beautiful wife (Roberts), a wonderful career and every blessing a man could want except "...children". When the wife demands a "star child" and Charlie can't deliver the goods, they turn to their crazy neighbor (Calvin) to get the job done, so to speak. Very hilarious and bawdy comedy where "one rooster to a hen-house" is not always the truth.

character: Linda Alderson

original_title: Almost Pregnant

title: Tourist Trap

overview: After their car breaks down, a group of young travelers find themselves stranded at a roadside museum run by the enigmatic Mr. Slausen and populated by his collection of life-like wax mannequins.

character: Becky

original_title: Tourist Trap

title: Sins of Desire

overview: When a young girl dies mysteriously after being treated at a sex therapy clinic, her sister Kay goes undercover to find out who is responsible.

character: Kay Egan

original_title: Sins of Desire

title: Fingers

overview: A wanna-be concert pianist spends his days making a living by collecting debts for his Mafioso father, a lifestyle that could eventually ruin his dreams of a musical career.

character: Julie

original_title: Fingers

title: The Beastmaster

overview: Dar, the son of a king, is hunted by a priest after his birth and grows up in another family. When he becomes a grown man, his new father is murdered by savages and he discovers that he has the ability to communicate with animals, which leads him on a quest for revenge against his father's killers.

character: Kiri

original_title: The Beastmaster

title: The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover

overview: The story of J. Edgar Hoover, head of the FBI from 1924-1972, following his racket-busting days through his reign under eight US presidents.

character: Stewardess

original_title: The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover

title: Zuma Beach

overview: A fading rock singer goes to the beach to get away from it all and winds up getting involved in the lives of the teenage beachgoers.

character: Denise

original_title: Zuma Beach

title: Body Slam

overview: M. Harry Smilac is a down-on-his-luck music manager who is having a hard time attracting talent and booking gigs for his band, Kicks (The most recent of the gigs is a Dairy Queen opening!!). When making arrangements for a campaign fund-raiser, he mistakes Rick Roberts, a professional wrestler, for a musician and hires him. At that moment he becomes a wrestling manager and starts to book matches for him and his teammate Tonga Tom. The team is a success, and Harry decides to take his wrestlers and his band on a "Rock n' Wrestling" tour. The tour is a success, and Harry feels what it is like to be a winner again.

character: Candace Vandervagen

original_title: Body Slam

title: The Yum Yum Girls

overview: A young woman goes to New York in order to work as model but in the big city she finds a world she did not expect.

character: April

original_title: The Yum Yum Girls

title: Carnage Collection: Vicious Violence & Vengeance

overview: Take a ride through a nearly half century of vintage Full Moon weirdness in this latest episode of our "Carnage Collection". See gory, intense and absurd clips from faves like TOURIST TRAP, TROPHY HEADS, HEAD OF THE FAMILY and more.

character: Becky (archive footage) (uncredited)

title: Murder Me, Murder You

overview: Private eye Mike Hammer probes his long-lost love's death while seeking their daughter.

character: Velda

original_title: Murder Me, Murder You

title: Purgatory

overview: Two Peace Corps volunteers in Africa are framed and put into an oppressive women's prison.

character: Carly Arnold

original_title: Purgatory

title: Forced Entry

overview: A disturbed mechanic stalks, rapes, and murders young women as retaliation for the childhood abuse inflicted by his mother. He becomes infatuated with a beautiful housewife who he intends to make his next victim.

title: Racquet

overview: Centred around a former tennis champ who swings with the girls and volleying straight sets with the rich and famous while set on owning his own tennis court.

title: National Lampoon's Favorite Deadly Sins

overview: America's three top leisure-time activities come roaring to life in National Lampoon's Favorite Deadly Sins. This film consists of three short stories: Greed (Joe Mantegna), Anger (Andrew Clay) and Lust (Denis Leary).

title: Night Eyes

overview: A Beverly Hills home-security guard is seduced by a rock star's wife he monitors by video.

title: Legal Tender

overview: A beautiful bar owner becomes victimized by a lethal bank fraud plot.

title: Hearts and Armour

overview: Love blossoms between crusader Bradamante—a woman knight wearing an invincible suit of armor—and Moorish prince Ruggero. But a sorceress predicts to Bradamante her beloved will die in battle at the hand of fellow Christian paladin Rolando, whom in turn is in love with Isabella, Ruggero's sister.

title: California Dreaming

overview: Young T.T. comes from Chicago to spend the summer in California. He slowly becomes "California-ized," while learning about love and life in the Golden State.

title: Deep Down

overview: A young musician with a talent for all things electrical spies on his sexy neighbor with a penchant for skinny dipping in the pool in broad daylight and her obviously violent husband. He is so violent that in the opening sequence he murders a man for talking with his mouth full of food. As the soft-core sex film advances, she gets involved sexually with the much younger man, all the while luring him into a trap involving the murder of her husband.

title: UnConventional

overview: Halloween 2003 marked the 13th anniversary of the Chiller Theatre Horror Movie Convention ... but there was nothing conventional about it. UnConventional is Revolution Earth's second feature-length documentary. This film chronicles the insanity that ensued at the 13th annual Chiller-Con, held at the Meadowlands Sheraton Hotel in East Rutherford, NJ. The story of the weekend is told through the eyes of six different people, each a representative of the sorts that the Chiller-Con attracts: Gunnar Hansen, the original man behind the mask; Tiffany Shepis, a scream queen on the rise; Bob Gonzo, a "micro-budget" filmmaker; two rabid fans; and one of the key men who helps run the convention. Six different people, six different perspectives, one crazy weekend. It certainly promises to be UnConventional. Just keep telling yourself ... it's only a documentary ...

title: Twisted Justice

overview: In the Los Angeles of the future, police are forbidden to carry weapons and must use stun guns instead. A maverick detective ignores those restrictions in his pursuit of "The Bullseye Murderer," a psychotic rapist who takes a new drug called "Umbra" that gives him superhuman strength and intelligence.

title: Pleasure Cove

overview: The story of a posh seaside vacation resort, and the lives and adventures of its guests and staff.

title: Investigating Tarzan

overview: A look at the history and cultural impact of Tarzan.

title: Waikiki

overview: A couple of private eyes, a laid-back Californian and a streetwise New Yorker, team up to track down a killer in Hawaii known as "The Cane Field Murderer" in this unsuccessful pilot to a detective series.

title: Celebrity Nude Revue: Easy 80's Volume 1

overview: The naked floodgates burst open in the Saucy 70s and the 80s continued the trend. Welcome to the 80s, Jerry Falwell, Reagan conservatism, VCRs, pay tv, big hair and AIDS. Drive-ins and grindhouses were replaced by multiplex theaters, but the VCR and Pay TV came to the rescue with a flood of direct to video sexy features. Remember trying to watch scrambled Pay TV looking for some skin?

title: The Men Behind the Mayhem: The Special Effects of James Bond

overview: Documentary looking at the special effects from the bond movies and the men who created them.  Narrated by Marie Clairu.

title: Inside 'A View to a Kill'

overview: A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "A View to a Kill"

title: The Beastmaster Chronicles

overview: Documentary about the making of the film The Beastmaster.

title: Saga of ‘The Beastmaster’

overview: This documentary is featured on the Divimax Special Edition DVD for The Beastmaster (1982), released in 2005. Included in the 2020 Vinegar Syndrome Blu-ray.

title: SEGAL

overview: From a shy kid on Long Island to Hollywood Leading Man, during its most prolific decades, legendary entertainer George Segal shares his life story.

title: Famous T&A 2

overview: Get ready for FAMOUS T&A 2, an all-new, all-hot compilation of clips from a cavalcade of movies featuring today's most fetching female stars BEFORE they were super famous! Hosted by the iconic Diana Prince (sidekick to horror host Joe Bob Briggs in Shudder's hit series THE LAST DRIVE-IN), this sequel is so hot your screen will singe!

title: Angels Forever

overview: DVD featurette about the “Charlie’s Angels” phenomenon.

title: Sins of Desire

title: A View to a Kill

title: Inner Sanctum

title: Sheena

title: Almost Pregnant

title: Tourist Trap

title: Sins of Desire

title: Fingers

title: The Beastmaster

title: The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover

title: Zuma Beach

title: Body Slam

title: The Yum Yum Girls

title: Murder Me, Murder You

title: Purgatory

title: Forced Entry

title: Racquet

title: National Lampoon's Favorite Deadly Sins

title: Night Eyes

title: Legal Tender

title: Hearts and Armour

title: California Dreaming

title: Deep Down

title: UnConventional

title: Twisted Justice

title: Pleasure Cove

title: Investigating Tarzan

title: Waikiki

title: Inside 'A View to a Kill'

title: The Beastmaster Chronicles

title: Saga of ‘The Beastmaster’

title: SEGAL

title: Famous T&A 2

title: Angels Forever

title: Sins of Desire