
Christopher Ravenscroft
Actor · b. 1946 · Hampstead, London, England, UK
Christopher Ravenscroft (born 1946) is an English actor renowned for his extensive work in stage, film, and television, most notably for his portrayal of the principled Detective Inspector Mike Burden in the long-running ITV crime drama series The Ruth Rendell Mysteries (also known as The Inspector Wexford Mysteries), where he appeared opposite George Baker from 1987 to 2000. After earning a law degree from the University of London, Ravenscroft pursued acting and trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, launching a career that spanned theatre and screen.[1] His early stage work included multiple seasons with the Royal Shakespeare Company, where he played roles such as Cassius in Julius Caesar and Mountjoy in Henry V, the latter reprised in Kenneth Branagh's acclaimed 1989 film adaptation.[2][3] On television, beyond The Ruth Rendell Mysteries, he has guest-starred in series like Coronation Street (1978), Holby City, and The Crown, while his film credits include supporting roles in The Football Factory (2004) and The Man Who Knew Infinity (2015).Ravenscroft's performances often emphasize intellectual depth and restraint, contributing to his reputation as a versatile character actor in British drama.
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Movie7.2DramaHistoryGrowing up poor in Madras, India, Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar earns admittance to Cambridge University during WWI, where he becomes a pioneer in mathematical theories with the guidance of his professor, G.H. Hardy.
The Man Who Knew Infinity
2016 · 1.6K votes
Movie7.1WarDramaIn 1415, in the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France.
Henry V
1989 · 423 votes
Movie6.7WarDramaThe true story of Louisa Gould, a widow living in Nazi occupied Jersey, who takes in a Russian prisoner of war.
Another Mother's Son
2017 · 37 votes
Movie6.9DramaRomancePenelope Keeling, a sixty-four-year-old daughter of a famous artist, reflects on her life, and the fate and choices that defined it, when she arrives in the Mediterranean to stay with her headstrong daughter. Shifting through time, and falling into place like the pieces of a jigsaw, the truth of Penelope's rich, heartbreaking and surprising life unfolds.
The Shell Seekers
2007 · 7 votes
Movie7.5DramaTV MovieWhen Prince Pericles, visiting Antioch, discovers the dreaded answer to King Antiochus's riddle, he flees for his life straight into famine, shipwreck, love, fatherhood, and another shipwreck. He loses his wife and daughter, and doesn't find them again until the story moves us through resurrection, attempted murder, pirates, prostitution, and divine revelation.
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
1984 · 2 votes
Movie6.3MysteryCrimeScotland Yard Commander Adam Dalgliesh has been on leave following the death on duty of a member of his team, DS Sarah Hillier. His superiors order him back to work to investigate the murder of the Director of the Steen Clinic, which specializes in psychiatric cases.
A Mind to Murder
1995 · 5 votes
MovieComedyMysteryIn a small parish village in England, a handsome yet socially challenged Anglican Vicar starts getting hit on by a young woman who believes he's the love of her life. All the while, a killer is afoot -- and is killing vicars' wives.
Movie7.5DramaComedyThe tale begins when a brother and sister are separated in a shipwreck, but survive to be washed up on the shore of Illyria. The sister, Viola, disguises herself as a man and takes service with Duke Orsino, who has fallen in love with Lady Olivia. Entrusted with pleading on her master's behalf, Viola is utterly disconcerted to find that Olivia has fallen in love with her. Thus begins the confusion of this delightful comedy.
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
1988 · 7 votes
Movie6.7DramaFamilyA young boy thinks he's got a lookalike around him, but nobody believes him. Then, he meets Thomas and they switch homes.
Tom & Thomas
2002 · 26 votes
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Margaret Parsons, a fairly ordinary housewife who, with her water board official husband Ron, has recently moved to Kingsmarkham, is found murdered in a field. Mrs. Parsons led an extremely uneventful life, being a lay preacher, but Inspector Wexford is intrigued when he is looking through her belongings and fine a number of expensive antique books all inscribed 'From Doon to Minna'.Who is Doon?
From Doon with Death
1991 · 1 votes
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TV7.5CrimeDramaThe peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.
Midsomer Murders
1997 · 375 votes
TV5.4SoapThe residents of Coronation Street are ordinary, working-class people, and the show follows them through regular social and family interactions at home, in the workplace, and in their local pub, the Rovers Return Inn. Britain's longest-running soap.
Coronation Street
1960 · 118 votes
TV8.2DramaThe gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny. The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the world – Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street – and the intrigues, love lives and machinations behind the great events that shaped the second half of the 20th century. Two houses, two courts, one Crown.
The Crown
2016 · 2.4K votes
TV6.6DramaMysteryThe Ruth Rendell mysteries is a British television series made by TVS and Meridian Television for ITV between 2 August 1987 and 11 October 2000.
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
1987 · 12 votes
TV6.5DramaWar & PoliticsStarring Paul Shelley in a role reminiscent of his Secret Army character in all but name, this 12-part serial follows a team of secret agents parachuted into occupied Europe during World War II, exploring their recruitment, training, and first mission behind enemy lines.
The Fourth Arm
1983 · 2 votes
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The Courtroom is a British legal drama created by Phil Redmond, which aired between June and December 2004. The programme was notable for starring many former British soap stars, particularly those who starred in Redmond's other productions Brookside and Hollyoaks.
The Courtroom
2004 · 1 votes
TV6.3Sci-Fi & FantasyDramaWhen a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate. A British television serial based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's novel.
The Hound of the Baskervilles
1982 · 6 votes