Anna Turner
Actor · 1918 – 2014 · Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Anna Turner was born on 6 May 1918 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She was an actress, known for Empire of the Sun (1987), BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950) and Night of the Big Heat (1967) She died on 29 March 2014 in Hammersmith, London, England, UK.
Movies17
Movie7.5DramaHistoryJamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured with an American sailor, who looks out for him while they are in the camp together. Even though he is separated from his parents and in a hostile environment, Jamie maintains his dignity and youthful spirit, providing a beacon of hope for the others held captive with him.
Empire of the Sun
1987 · 2.2K votes
Movie5.3Science FictionHorrorWhile mainland Britain shivers in deepest winter, the northern island of Fara bakes in the nineties, and the boys at the Met station have no more idea what is going on than the regulars at the Swan. Only a stand-offish visting scientist realizes space aliens are to blame.
Night of the Big Heat
1967 · 61 votes
Movie6.2FantasyComedyA hapless loser sells his soul to the Devil in exchange for seven wishes, but has trouble winning over the girl of his dreams.
Bedazzled
1967 · 182 votes
Movie6.2CrimeDramaA man is tried for the murder of his neurotic wife by means of a sedative overdose.
The Last Man to Hang
1956 · 8 votes
Movie5.8DramaThrillerA plastic surgeon changes the face of a female convict to match that of the beautiful woman who broke his heart and left him. He marries the convict but trouble starts when his true love returns.
Stolen Face
1952 · 31 votes
Movie6.4AdventureCrimeAfter World War II, an ex-spy returns to Germany to search for a cache of jewels he hid in a Czechoslovakian convent.
The Treasure of San Teresa
1959 · 7 votes
Movie6.7ThrillerA 5-year-old child is diagnosed with leukaemia and has only days to live. Her only hope is a blood transfusion, but her blood type is extremely rare, so the race is on to find the donors.
Emergency Call
1952 · 7 votes
Movie7.0MusicComedyThe story revolves around the Dinky Doos, a provincial musical troupe living from hand to mouth.
The Good Companions
1957 · 1 votes
Movie5.6ThrillerCrimeBranded as criminally insane and incarcerated for a murder he did not commit, Speight escapes from the asylum, determined to clear his name. He befriends private detective Hugo Bishop who, convinced that the wrong man has been convicted, agrees to help find the real killer. They begin their search for the murderer closest to home where both Thelma Speight and her employer Maurice Jerrard were visibly distressed by the news of her husband's jailbreak. More than Speight's 'insanity' fuels their worries.
Mantrap
1953 · 7 votes
Movie6.8CrimeDramaLucy Church, the sole witness to a fatal robbery, is struck by a passing bus and her life lies in the balance as the thieves wait for a chance to finish her off.
Eyewitness
1956 · 9 votes
Movie6.8CrimeMysteryU.S. Embassy employee Lee Cochrane and his wife, Sue, receive a shock when they discover that their 18-month-old son, Simon, has disappeared in London. He was last seen with their nanny, and the couple seemingly have no leads that might help police Detective Craig in his investigation. The media sensationalizes the incident, causing an unnecessary distraction as the couple prepares to confront the culprit face-to-face.
Lost
1956 · 6 votes
Movie6.5DramaA talented dress designer, who lets nothing get in the way of her success, rises in the fashion world then loses contact with her own humanity. She also forgets that you meet the same people on the way up as on the way down.
It Started in Paradise
1952 · 2 votes
Movie6.3DramaCrimeTwo men working on the docks close to London's Tower Bridge find the body of an unidentified man floating in the Thames. The police later identify the body to be that of a diamond courier from Holland. The police have to find his murderer, as well as the missing diamonds he was carrying.
The Floating Dutchman
1954 · 3 votes
Movie5.5CrimeDramaPeter Reynolds stars as Rex Banner, a newspaperman who makes it his life's mission to track down a vicious gang of thieves. When his informant winds up dead, Rex finds himself framed for murder.
The Delavine Affair
1955 · 8 votes
Movie5.2ThrillerPolice hunt for mental hospital out patient Simon Lacey, who has been unwittingly handing out barbiturates to children as sweets.
The Silent Playground
1963 · 4 votes
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On an island off the west coast of Great Britain, a group of survivors of World War Three struggle to continue living. Hugh Packenham foresaw the oncoming conflict and fled to the island. His only neighbours are fisherman Shaun O'Donnell and his wife Barbara. Then other survivors seek refuge, including an African American sailor, and conflicts develop
The End Begins
1957
Movie5.3ComedyAs a going away gift to a small village, the local Lord and Lady promise a new cottage to the local couple with the most grandchildren. Competitive instincts and petty jealousies ensue.
Children Galore
1955 · 3 votes
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TV7.8ComedyDramaThe trials and misadventures of the staff at a country veterinary office in Yorkshire. James Herriot, a young animal surgeon, moves to a small Yorkshire town to begin his first job.
All Creatures Great and Small
1978 · 49 votes
TV3.5DramaSunday Night Theatre was a long-running series of televised live television plays screened by BBC Television from early 1950 until 1959. The productions for the first five years or so of the run were re-staged live the following Thursday, partly because of technical limitations in this era, and the theatrical basis of early television drama. Some of the earliest collaborations between Rudolph Cartier and Nigel Neale were produced for this series, including Arrow to the Heart and Nineteen Eighty-Four. The Sunday night drama slot was subsequently renamed The Sunday-Night Play which ran for four seasons between 1960 and 1963. ITV transmitted its own unrelated run of Sunday Night Theatre between 1971 and 1974.
Sunday Night Theatre
1950 · 2 votes
TV6.5MysteryComedySpirited dialogue, posh Roaring '20s style, and devious mysteries abound as Tommy and Tuppence Beresford mix marriage and mystery solving.
Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime
1983 · 18 votes
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An anthology of single plays offering up adaptations of either of prominent stage plays or novels.
Festival
1963 · 1 votes
TV8.0DramaDouglas Fairbanks, Jr., Presents, is a 1950s syndicated anthology series hosted and occasionally starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.. The series offered Buster Keaton in his first dramatic role in the episode entitled "The Awakening". British actor Christopher Lee appeared in varied role in thirteen episodes, including "Destination Milan". The program aired from 7 January 1953 to 11 February 1957 for a total of 117 episodes. Fairbanks himself starred in forty-eight episodes. In Melbourne, Australia the series was aired under the title Chesebrough Ponds Playhouse.
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Presents
1953 · 2 votes
TVCrimeDramaA series of three minute strange tales narrated by Peter Williams.
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Private Investigator was a groundbreaking British television drama that delved into the shadowy, complex world of private detection through the cases handled by an English detective agency. Central to the series was the character of John Unthank, played by seasoned actor Campbell Singer, whose understated but authoritative screen presence anchored the show. Unthank was supported by a capable team portrayed by Ursula Camm, Douglas Muir, Ian White, and Allan McClelland.
TV7.5ComedyLazarus and Dingwall is a British sitcom starring Stephen Frost and Mark Dingwall as two inept detectives in a pastiche of police dramas. The programme ran for six episodes on BBC Two from 1 February 1 to 8 March 1991. Steve Lazarus and Mark Dingwall are a somewhat unconventional duo in the more than slightly unconventional sector of Really Serious Crimes. Their chief is both eccentric and incompetent, and everyone else is equally oddball, from desk worker and the object of Dingwall's affections, Beverly Armitage, to the plainclothes duo. However, despite their somewhat unique approach, what the department seems to come up trumps more often than not.
Lazarus and Dingwall
1991 · 4 votes
TV7.3ComedyUnnatural Acts was a 1998 sketch comedy series written by Julian Barratt, Seán Cullen, Rich Easter, and Rich Fulcher on the Paramount Comedy Channel, now known as Comedy Central.
Unnatural Acts
1998 · 3 votes
TVDramaCrimeFabian of the Yard is a British police procedural television series based on the real-life memoirs of Scotland Yard detective Robert Fabian, produced by the BBC and broadcast between November 1954 and February 1956. It is considered the earliest plice procedural made for British TV, sharing many points of commonality with the U.S. series Dragnet. There were 36 episodes in total, of 30 minutes each. The first thirty were broadcast consecutively on Saturday evenings between 13 November 1954 and 22 June 1955, with the exceptions of Christmas Day and New Year's Day which happened to fall on a Saturday. For unknown reasons, the final six were held back, and later broadcast intermittently between November 1955 and February 1956.
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