Hywel Bennett

Hywel Bennett

Hywel Bennett (1944-2017) was a Welsh film and television actor best known for the trio of films he made in the '60s and '70s with Hayley Mills, and for his starring role in ITV's long running sitcom Shelley.

  • Title: Hywel Bennett
  • Popularity: 17.303
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1944-04-08
  • Place of Birth: Garnant, Carmarthenshire, Wales, UK
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  • Also Known As: Hywel Thomas Bennett
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Hywel Bennett Movies

  • 2000
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    Vatel

    Vatel

    6.097 2000 HD

    In 1671, with war brewing with Holland, a penniless prince invites Louis XIV to three days of festivities at a chateau in Chantilly. The prince wants...

    Genre: History

    Cast: Gérard Depardieu

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  • 2003
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    One for the Road

    One for the Road

    5.75 2003 HD

    One for the Road follows Jimmy, Paul, Richard and Mark who meet on a rehabilitation course for drink drivers. Jimmy is young, ambitious and desperate...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Hywel Bennett

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  • 1972
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    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

    6.1 1972 HD

    An all-star cast highlights this vibrant musical adaptation of Lewis Carroll's immortal tale. One day, plucky young Alice follows a white rabbit down...

    Genre: Family

    Cast: Fiona Fullerton

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  • 1972
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    Endless Night

    Endless Night

    6 1972 HD

    Shiftless dreamer Michael Rogers fantasizes about a lifestyle above his means and marries a wealthy, young girl who just came of age. They hire a...

    Genre: Mystery

    Cast: Hayley Mills

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  • 1981
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    Artemis '81

    Artemis '81

    3 1981 HD

    Paranormal novelist Gideon Harlax is drawn into a battle between the forces of good, represented by alien angel Helith, and the forces of evil,...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Hywel Bennett

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  • 1968
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    Twisted Nerve

    Twisted Nerve

    6.7 1968 HD

    Martin Durnley is a young man with an infantilizing mother, resentful stepfather and an institutionalized brother with Down's syndrome. To cope, he...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Hayley Mills

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  • 1987
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    Deadline

    Deadline

    4.5 1987 HD

    An American journalist is set up and fed false information after the Lebanon war.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Christopher Walken

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  • 1971
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    Percy

    Percy

    4.3 1971 HD

    Edwin Antony (Hywel Bennett) is emasculated in an accident which kills a young philanderer. Doctors successfully replace his member with that of the...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Hywel Bennett

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  • 1970
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    The Buttercup Chain

    The Buttercup Chain

    4.6 1970 HD

    Born to twin sisters on the same day in London, France and Margaret are more like brother and sister than cousins. The close relationship between the...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Jane Asher

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  • 1970
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    Loot

    Loot

    5.7 1970 HD

    Two bank robbers, Dennis and Hal, are on the run from the police after a successful heist. Needing somewhere to hide the loot, they turn to a funeral...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Richard Attenborough

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  • 1986
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    Frankie and Johnnie

    Frankie and Johnnie

    1 1986 HD

    When two teenagers commit suicide the police and the press assume the motive to be some kind of love pact. But Allan Blakeston, a local reporter, has...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Hywel Bennett

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  • 1985
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    Absent Friends

    Absent Friends

    1 1985 HD

    Adaptation of the play by Alan Ayckbourn.

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    Cast: Hywel Bennett

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  • 1973
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    The Love Ban

    The Love Ban

    3.5 1973 HD

    In this 1970s comedy, a Catholic man contemplates going against his priest's guidance on contraceptives when his wife wants to stop having children.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Hywel Bennett

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  • 1985
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    Murder Elite

    Murder Elite

    8 1985 HD

    An English woman (Ali MacGraw) returns to her homeland after losing her fortune in America, and is stalked by a serial killer.

    Genre: Thriller

    Cast: Ali MacGraw

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  • 1966
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    Where the Buffalo Roam

    Where the Buffalo Roam

    1 1966 HD

    Poor Willy’s mind has been warped by too many Westerns. He sees gunfighters on every corner, even though he’s in 1960s Swansea. Some...

    Genre: TV Movie

    Cast: Hywel Bennett

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  • 1999
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    Misery Harbour

    Misery Harbour

    4.8 1999 HD

    A young writer named Espen Arnakke tells the story of his escape from the small Danish town of Jante. Espen boards a ship headed to Newfoundland, but...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

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  • 2002
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    The Quest

    The Quest

    1 2002 HD

    Three elderly men, Dave, Ronno and Charlie, meet at Charlie's retirement party and reminisce about their teenage "quest" in the 1950s to get laid....

    Genre: TV Movie

    Cast: David Jason

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  • 2004
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    The Second Quest

    The Second Quest

    2 2004 HD

    Three old friends are reunited after one was involved in an accident. They reminisce about their motorbike trip to the Isle of Man to ride the TT...

    Genre: TV Movie

    Cast: David Jason

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  • 2004
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    The Final Quest

    The Final Quest

    4 2004 HD

    Three old friends reminisce about their old haunts. Hearing that a coffee bar they frequented in their youth is reopening with a rock 'n' roll...

    Genre: TV Movie

    Cast: David Jason

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  • 1991
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    A Mind To Kill

    A Mind To Kill

    6 1991 HD

    A young girl is found brutally murdered in a small seaside town. The police are baffled; the town's inhabitants are panic-stricken. A serial killer...

    Genre: TV Movie

    Cast: Hywel Bennett

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  • 2000
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    Nasty Neighbours

    Nasty Neighbours

    5.5 2000 HD

    Mr. and Mrs. Peach's favourite neighbours emigrate to Australia, leaving the grieving couple anxiously twitching the net curtains of their suburban...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Ricky Tomlinson

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  • 1966
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    The Family Way

    The Family Way

    6.6 1966 HD

    Young newlyweds Arthur and Jenny Fitton want nothing more than to get their marriage started on the right foot. But before they can depart for their...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Hayley Mills

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  • 1969
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    The Virgin Soldiers

    The Virgin Soldiers

    6.6 1969 HD

    The core of the plot is the romantic triangle formed by the protagonist, a conscripted soldier named Private Brigg, a worldly professional soldier...

    Genre: War

    Cast: Hywel Bennett

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  • 1968
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    Il marito è mio e l'ammazzo quando mi pare

    Il marito è mio e l'ammazzo quando mi pare

    6 1968 HD

    Ignazio is married to a much younger girl, as she starts being attracted by a handsome young man. The new couple set up several plans to kill the...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Catherine Spaak

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  • 1994
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    Deadly Advice

    Deadly Advice

    4.6 1994 HD

    Mother rules the house with an iron hand and has such power over her daughters that they see themselves as becoming old unmarried, maids. Jodie has...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Jane Horrocks

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  • 1979
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    Coming Out

    Coming Out

    4.5 1979 HD

    Lewis, a gay writer of romantic novels, writes an article on gay issues under the pseudonym of "Zippy Grimes." The reason for this is that he hasn't...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Anton Rodgers

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  • 1997
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    Harpur and Iles: Protection

    Harpur and Iles: Protection

    5 1997 HD

    Underworld boss Bernie 'Tenderness' Mellick is certainly paying a heavy price for maiming Ivor Wright in a firebombing. For Wright's men have now...

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    Cast: Hywel Bennett

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  • 1973
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    Three's One

    Three's One

    1 1973 HD

    Are Maggie and Tony using each other as a means of communicating with Dr Leafer? Or are they using Dr Leafer as a means of communicating with each...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Hywel Bennett

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  • 1965
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    Doctor Who: The Chase

    Doctor Who: The Chase

    6.8 1965 HD

    The Doctor and his companions are pursued through time and space by the Daleks on the desert planet Aridius and beyond.

    Genre: Science Fiction

    Cast: William Hartnell

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  • 1999
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    Mary, Mother of Jesus

    Mary, Mother of Jesus

    4.423 1999 HD

    Mary, Mother of Jesus is a 1999 made-for-television Biblical film that retells the story of Jesus through the eyes of Mary, his mother.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Christian Bale

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  • 1966
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    A Month in the Country

    A Month in the Country

    1 1966 HD

    An adaptation Turgenev's play of the same name.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Vivien Merchant

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  • 1992
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    Trust Me

    Trust Me

    1 1992 HD

    Harry plays hoaxes on gullible tabloid journalists. But when he gets ambitious and tries to sell the faked memoirs of a contract killer to a...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Alfred Molina

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  • 2000
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    Married 2 Malcolm

    Married 2 Malcolm

    6.2 2000 HD

    Malcolm tries to keep his dual lives -- and two wives -- separate, but when both of his spouses want to attend the same concert, he runs into a big...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Mark Addy

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  • 2007
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    Dangerous Liaisons

    Dangerous Liaisons

    1 2007 HD

    When detectives investigate a seemingly natural death of an old man, they discover a disturbing tape in his possession which alongside old family...

    Genre: Mystery

    Cast: Peter Davison

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  • 1982
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    The Critic

    The Critic

    1 1982 HD

    Mr. Puff, a foppish, would-be playwright-critic, invites his literary-minded associates to see a production of his horrendous and nonsensical...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Hywel Bennett

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  • 1967
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    Romeo and Juliet

    Romeo and Juliet

    1 1967 HD

    In Shakespeare's classic play, the Montagues and Capulets, two families of Renaissance Italy, have hated each other for years, but the son of one...

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    Cast: Kika Markham

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  • 1992
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    Shelley

    Shelley

    7.833 1992 HD

    Shelley is a British sitcom made by Thames Television and originally broadcast on ITV from 12 July 1979 to 12 January 1984 and from 11 October 1988...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Josephine Tewson

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  • 1996
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    Neverwhere

    Neverwhere

    6.7 1996 HD

    Richard Mayhew leads an ordinary life in London when one day a girl named Door falls, injured, across his path. The next thing he knows, his life is...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Gary Bakewell

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  • 1984
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    Play for Today

    Play for Today

    5.9 1984 HD

    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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast:

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  • 1979
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    Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

    Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

    7.6 1979 HD

    George Smiley, the aging master spy of the Cold War and once heir apparent to Control, is brought back out of retirement to flush out a top level...

    Genre: War & Politics

    Cast: Alec Guinness

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  • 1999
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    Murder Most Horrid

    Murder Most Horrid

    6.583 1999 HD

    A comedy that started in 1991 as a pilot, Murder Most Horrid stars Dawn French as various characters, as she embarks on a different mystery every...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Dawn French

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  • 1989
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    The Twilight Zone

    The Twilight Zone

    7.728 1989 HD

    This 1980s revival of the classic sci-fi series features a similar style to the original anthology series. Each episode tells a tale (sometimes two...

    Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy

    Cast: Robin Ward

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  • 2010
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    The Bill

    The Bill

    6.771 2010 HD

    The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats to armed robbery and...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Simon Rouse

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  • 2000
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    Lock, Stock...

    Lock, Stock...

    5.7 2000 HD

    Lock, Stock... was a 2000 television series off-shoot from the 1998 film Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. The series was shown on Channel 4 and...

    Genre: Action & Adventure

    Cast: Shaun Parkes

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  • 1996
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    Karaoke

    Karaoke

    6.9 1996 HD

    Daniel Feeld, writer of the film Karaoke, starts to believe that his characters are coming alive.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Albert Finney

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  • 2001
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    Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)

    Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)

    5.9 2001 HD

    A modern day version of the 1969 detective series about Private Investigator Jeff Randall, who is aided in cases by the ghost of his deceased partner...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Bob Mortimer

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  • 2008
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    High Hopes

    High Hopes

    1 2008 HD

    High Hopes is a sitcom made in Wales, produced and directed by Gareth Gwenlan for BBC Wales and is set in a fictional area of the South Wales Valleys...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast:

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  • 1992
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    Virtual Murder

    Virtual Murder

    7 1992 HD

    John Cornelius (called JC) is a university don who also works for his city police force as a consultant psychologist. Samantha Valentine is his...

    Genre: Mystery

    Cast: Nicholas Clay

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  • 1970
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    The Wednesday Play

    The Wednesday Play

    4.5 1970 HD

    The Wednesday Play is an anthology series of British television plays which ran on BBC1 from October 1964 to May 1970. The plays were usually written...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: George Webb

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  • 1966
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    Redcap

    Redcap

    6 1966 HD

    Redcap is a British television series produced by ABC Weekend Television and broadcast on the ITV network. It starred John Thaw as Sergeant John...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: John Thaw

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  • 1978
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    Pennies from Heaven

    Pennies from Heaven

    7.8 1978 HD

    Pennies From Heaven is a 1978 BBC television drama serial written by Dennis Potter. The title is taken from a song of the same name written by Johnny...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Bob Hoskins

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  • 2020
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    Natural World

    Natural World

    6.825 2020 HD

    Natural World is a nature documentary television series broadcast annually on BBC Two and regarded by the BBC as its flagship natural history brand....

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: David Attenborough

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  • 2005
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    Celebrity Stitch Up

    Celebrity Stitch Up

    1 2005 HD

    Genre:

    Cast: Hywel Bennett

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  • 1994
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    Frank Stubbs Promotes

    Frank Stubbs Promotes

    1 1994 HD

    Frank Stubbs (Timothy Spall) is a down-at-heel ticket tout with grand ideas. He has an ambition to become a 'high class' promoter of famous and...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Lesley Sharp

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  • 1992
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    The Return of Shelley

    The Return of Shelley

    1 1992 HD

    Genre:

    Cast: Caroline Langrishe

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  • 2024
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    Casualty

    Casualty

    5.8 2024 HD

    Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: William Beck

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  • 1979
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    Malice Aforethought

    Malice Aforethought

    5.5 1979 HD

    For ten years, Julia Bickleigh has despised and bullied her husband. For ten years Dr Bickleigh has dreamed of romance ... and escape.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Hywel Bennett

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  • 1986
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    Robin of Sherwood

    Robin of Sherwood

    7.575 1986 HD

    Robin of Sherwood was a British television series, based on the legend of Robin Hood. Created by Richard Carpenter, it was produced by HTV in...

    Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy

    Cast: Jason Connery

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  • 1978
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    The Sweeney

    The Sweeney

    7.684 1978 HD

    Jack Regan, an unethical officer of the Flying Squad, uses unorthodox methods to pursue criminals with the help of his partner, George Carter.

    Genre: Action & Adventure

    Cast: John Thaw

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  • 1983
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    BBC Play of the Month

    BBC Play of the Month

    5 1983 HD

    Play of the Month is a BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays which were usually broadcast on...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast:

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  • 1983
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    BBC Play of the Month

    BBC Play of the Month

    5 1983 HD

    Play of the Month is a BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays which were usually broadcast on...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast:

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