John Rees
Actor · 1927 – 1994 · Port Talbot, Wales - UK
John Rees was born on March 6, 1927 in Port Talbot, Wales as John Morgan Rees. He was an actor and composer, known for Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Eye of the Needle (1981) and Doctor Who (1963). He died in October 1994 in Spain.
Movies23
Movie7.9AdventureActionWhen Dr. Indiana Jones – the tweed-suited professor who just happens to be a celebrated archaeologist – is hired by the government to locate the legendary Ark of the Covenant, he finds himself up against the entire Nazi regime.
Raiders of the Lost Ark
1981 · 14K votes
Movie6.7DramaThrillerGreat Britain, 1944, during World War II. Relentlessly pursued by several MI5 agents, Henry Faber the Needle, a ruthless German spy in possession of vital information about D-Day, takes refuge on Storm Island, an inhospitable, sparsely inhabited island off the coast of northern Scotland.
Eye of the Needle
1981 · 266 votes
Movie6.1DramaRomanceA millionaire past his prime and his young wife arrive in Kenya circa 1940 to find that the other affluent British expatriates are living large as the homefront gears up for war. They are busy swapping partners, doing drugs, and attending lavish parties and horse races. She begins a torrid affair with one of the bon vivants, and her husband finds out and confronts them. The husband and wife decide to break up peacefully, but the bon vivant is murdered and all the evidence points to the husband.
White Mischief
1987 · 63 votes
Movie6.4ActionThrillerA reporter named Mullen 'stumbles' onto a story linking a prominent Member of Parliament to a KGB agent and a near-nuclear disaster involving a teenage runaway and a U.S. Air Force base. Has there been a Government cover-up? Mullen teams up with Vernon Bayliss, an old hack, and Nina Beckam, the MP's assistant, to find out the truth.
Defence of the Realm
1986 · 42 votes
Movie6.8DramaRomanceBritish teenager Leo Colston spends a summer in the countryside, where he develops a crush on the beautiful young aristocrat Marian. Eager to impress her, Leo becomes the "go-between" for Marian, delivering secret romantic letters to Ted Burgess, a handsome neighboring farmer.
The Go-Between
1971 · 166 votes
Movie6.0ThrillerMysteryA traveller by the name of Crossley forces himself upon a musician and his wife in a lonely part of Devon, and uses the aboriginal magic he has learned to displace his host.
The Shout
1978 · 132 votes
Movie5.9ComedyJohn Lewis is bored of his job and his wife. Then Liz, wife of a local councillor, sets her sights on him. But this is risky stuff in a Welsh valleys town - if he and Liz ever manage to consummate their affair, that is.
Only Two Can Play
1962 · 32 votes
Movie6.7WarComedyBased on a play by Willis Hall. A troop of British soldiers are out in the jungle to record jungle noises and troop noises in the jungle so that the recordings can be played back by other troops to divert the enemy to their whereabouts. As they progress to what they think is closer to the base camp they find themselves farther and farther from radio range until the only channel they can get clearly is that of a Japanese broadcast. They now realize they are probably only 10 to 15 miles from a Japanese camp! The tension is added to by rowdy and openly admitted "non-hero" Private Bamforth who has nothing good to say about anyone and especially Corporal Johnstone (who holds an equal dislike for Bamforth). When a Japanese soldier is taken as their prisoner, the true colours of each man comes to the surface
The Long and the Short and the Tall
1961 · 29 votes
Movie6.6DramaTV MovieJames Herriot is a vet in Yorkshire, England, during the 1930s. He is assigned to the practice of Siegfried Farnon, who—together with his mischievous brother Tristan—already have a successful business. James undergoes a variety of adventures during his work, which are just as often caused by the characters of the county, including the Farnon brothers, as the animals in his care.
All Creatures Great and Small
1975 · 24 votes
Movie5.9ThrillerDramaAfter two British Secret Intelligence Service agents are murdered at the hands of a cryptic neo-Nazi group known as Phoenix, the suave agent Quiller is sent to Berlin to investigate.
The Quiller Memorandum
1966 · 90 votes
Movie5.6HorrorThrillerA disturbed telepathic man is able to transmit his dreams and visions into the minds of the people around him.
The Sender
1982 · 62 votes
Movie3.8Science FictionJowitt, a mercenary without recluse institutes a totalitarian regime in a small mining city of an arid planet, Ordessa, helped in that by androids incapable of any emotion. The young Lorca and his android professor, Kid, are both in this tended situation. To find the liberty, they must at any costs seize a spaceship, the "Red Star", but they quickly have to face an android killer...
Movie6.7CrimeDramaA criminal gang sets out to pull off the heist of a large army payroll.
A Prize of Arms
1962 · 10 votes
Movie8.0TV MovieDramaAn army deserter hides out on a country estate but falls foul of the gamekeeper.
The Hunting of Lionel Crane
1970 · 1 votes
Movie6.1ComedyDramaThe delightful if peculiar story of a day in the life of a small, Welsh fishing village called "Llareggub" in which we meet a host of curious characters (and ghosts) through the 'eyes' of Blind Captain Cat.
Under Milk Wood
1972 · 23 votes
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A young woman uses her parents' home as a psychological testing ground to research the concept of male sexual neurosis.
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Movie7.0DramaHistorySpain in the 1930s. The film tells of the fight of international troops against General Franco's army. It tells of the fate of three brigadists, the American Gary, the German Hans and the Englishman Joe, who are taken prisoner by Franco's army. Their attitude in this difficult situation is a living example of international solidarity and creates a memorial.
Ballade vom roten Mohn
1965 · 2 votes
Movie9.0TV MovieDramaLucie und der Angler von Paris
1963 · 1 votes
Movie7.5ThrillerDramaIn the troubled state of Ocantros, the prime minister is assassinated. Martin Katrup, who is responsible for setting up a large printing plant, is also on the island at this time. A short time later, two of his colleagues disappear without a trace and Katrup sets off in search of them. The situation is exacerbated when the secret service tries everything in its power to spark a coup and a civil war.
Visa für Ocantros
1974 · 2 votes
MovieA personal dispute between a union leader and a management leader causes chaos for workers at a troublesome tin mining company.
Strife
1965
Movie4.8ThrillerCrime reporter Jack Moir is framed by crooked nightclub owner, 'The Duke'. In prison, Moir plans his revenge.
Impact
1963 · 5 votes
MovieSome ex-rugby players gather at a stadium to reminisce.. They meet a TV commentator to rehearse the discussion of the scoring of "the most momentous try in rugby history." Discord follows, when a lone voice declares that the try was awarded in error.
Dummy Run
1974
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TV7.9DramaAction & AdventureThe adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling spaceship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Along with a succession of companions, The Doctor faces a variety of foes while working to save civilizations, help ordinary people, and right many wrongs.
Doctor Who
1963 · 723 votes
TV7.4Action & AdventureCrimeSimon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those in need.
The Saint
1962 · 136 votes
TV6.7DramaA 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.
Tales of the Unexpected
1979 · 54 votes
TV7.2DramaTheatre 625 is a British television drama anthology series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC2 from 1964 to 1968. It was one of the first regular programmes in the line-up of the channel, and the title referred to its production and transmission being in the higher-definition 625-line format, which only BBC2 used at the time.
Theatre 625
1964 · 5 votes
TV4.2DramaAn 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.
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965 · 8 votes
TV6.3CrimeDramaNew 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.
New Scotland Yard
1972 · 3 votes
TV6.2DramaVan der Valk is a British television series that was produced by Thames Television for the ITV network. It starred Barry Foster in the title role as Dutch detective Commissaris "Piet" van der Valk. Based on the characters and atmosphere of the novels of Nicolas Freeling, the first series was shown in 1972.
Van der Valk
1972 · 10 votes
TV7.0DramaAnthology series of half hour plays produced in BBC's Television Centre's studios.
Centre Play
1973 · 1 votes
TV7.7DramaSci-Fi & FantasyAfter resigning, a secret agent is abducted and taken to what looks like an idyllic village, but is really a bizarre Kafkaesque prison. His warders demand information. He gives them nothing, but only tries to escape.
The Prisoner
1967 · 221 votes
TV7.8DramaWar & PoliticsWorld War II drama about covert organisation Lifeline helping allied airmen escape after being shot down in occupied Europe, working with the Resistance and hiding from the Gestapo.
Secret Army
1977 · 15 votes
TV7.2Budgie is a popular British television series starring former popstar Adam Faith which was produced by ITV company London Weekend Television and broadcast on the ITV network between 1971 and 1972. The series was created by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall . The show was produced by Verity Lambert, Rex Firkin was the Executive producer.
Budgie
1971 · 6 votes
TV7.3DramaWar & PoliticsBerlin, Germany, 1935. The day Karl Weiss, a Jewish painter, and Inga Helms, a Christian woman, marry, is the one in which both of them and the entire Weiss family are caught up in the maelstrom of the Nazi regime, the storms of World War II and the horrors of the criminal Final Solution, the Holocaust, the Shoah; while Erik Dorf, an ambitious lawyer, undertakes his fall into hell at the hands of the sinister Reinhard Heydrich.
Holocaust
1978 · 76 votes
TV7.0ComedyMysteryWilde Alliance is a 1978 British television programme created by Ian Mackintosh and produced by Yorkshire Television for l ITV. The light-hearted mystery series follows husband-and-wife amateur detectives Rupert and Amy Wilde.
Wilde Alliance
1978 · 3 votes
TV7.2ComedyBritish sitcom in which happy-go-lucky character Peter Barnes comically and haphazardly tries to deal with the daily frustrations his life throws at him.
A Sharp Intake of Breath
1977 · 6 votes
TV10.0Featuring dramatised versions of true stories that shocked mainstream Victorian society.
Victorian Scandals
1976 · 1 votes
TV7.3FamilyAction & AdventureBased on the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow tells the tale of Richard Shelton, a knight who avenges the death of his father during the War of the Roses. Richard is surrounded by enemies, some of whom he considers his most trusted companions.
The Black Arrow
1972 · 3 votes
TV7.0DramaThe Venturers is a 1975 British television programme created by Donald Bull. It originated as an edition of Drama Playhouse in 1972 before being commissioned as an ongoing series. The one series–comprised of ten episodes–takes place in the high-pressure world of Prince's Merchant Bank and deals with the intricacies of high finance amongst its millionaire clients.
The Venturers
1975 · 1 votes