
Larrington Walker
Actor · 1946 – 2017 · Kingston, Jamaica
Born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1947, Larrington Walker was a British-based actor best known for his roles in The Chinese Detective and the 1980s children's educational series You and Me. His film credits included Human Traffic, Second Coming and Finding Your Feet. He continued to work right up until his death, appearing in the BBC's Death in Paradise when he died at the age of 70 in Guadeloupe, where the series is filmed. When the episode was broadcast, the production dedicated it to his memory.
Movies13
Movie6.8ComedyDramaFor Jip, Lulu, Koop, Nina, and Moff, the dead-end jobs they endure during the week just kill the time until Friday night. That's when they cut very loose and get on the rollercoaster ride that takes them right through to Monday morning.
Human Traffic
1999 · 414 votes
Movie7.0ComedyDramaWhen her life is turned upside down upon discovering her husband's affair, Sandra Abbott seeks refuge in London with her estranged older sister Bif. She begins to find her feet again after letting Bif drag her along to a community dance class.
Finding Your Feet
2017 · 185 votes
Movie3.5ComedyDan is about to introduce the woman of his dreams to his family, but as they are so quirky, will everything go to plan?
A Gert Lush Christmas
2015 · 6 votes
MovieComedyAs You Like It, Shakespeare's famous pastoral comedy of love and disguise, is reimagined here with darker, more sombre undertones. Performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Movie5.0DramaA married, middle-class London couple are shocked when they seem to have been blessed — or cursed — with an immaculate conception.
Second Coming
2014 · 22 votes
MovieDramaTV MovieGrace leaves her old folks' home to return to her birthplace in Lambeth, a place which has changed on the surface but at its heart is still the same.
Waterloo Sunset
1979
MovieA wily publisher of arts magazines tries to cope with ever-growing financial problems - and also his formidable German mother.
Movie6.0DramaA young black woman in England becomes increasingly frustrated with her life with her lazy, demanding boyfriend, and with the help of friends seeks something better.
Burning an Illusion
1981 · 8 votes
Movie8.0ComedyDramaThree black men rob a Knightsbridge Italian restaurant. But when the police are called and the robbery becomes a siege, the men find themselves in a situation out of their control.
A Hole in Babylon
1979 · 1 votes
MovieDramaTV MovieWally, a caretaker in a block of flats, loses his job when the flats are used to rehouse Bhengali families.
Murder Rap
1980
Movie8.0Science FictionA dystopian sci-fi drama set in a near future Britain, where Christmases are hot, nights are filled with violence and the government is replaced by a military leadership enforcing the "Happiness Agenda". Lil, a punk rocker meets Mr Dandy, an alcoholic rebel with an electronic voice box, who teaches her the importance of compassion.
Afro Punk Girl
2016 · 1 votes
Movie10.0DramaA single mother returns to her home town after fifteen years of unhappy marriage and fights to make a better life for herself and her children.
Fighting Back
1986 · 1 votes
Movie7.0Set in a commercial radio station in an enterprise zone called ‘Riverside’, Thin Air involved property development on a massive scale, the disruption and forced exodus of a local community, the stripping away of local authority powers, left-wing activism, designer drugs, media hacks.
Thin Air
1988 · 1 votes
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TV7.4ComedyCrimeA brilliant but idiosyncratic British detective and his resourceful local team solve baffling murder mysteries on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint Marie.
Death in Paradise
2011 · 343 votes
TV6.6DramaPlay 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.
Play for Today
1970 · 10 votes
TV7.1ComedyDramaRoguish comedy drama following the misadventures of small-time crook Arthur Daley.
Minder
1979 · 30 votes
TV6.5DramaPeak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town in the Derbyshire Peak District — and the doctors who worked there. It ran on ITV from 10 May 1993 to 30 January 2002 and was one of their most successful series at the time. It originally starred Kevin Whately as Dr Jack Kerruish, Amanda Burton as Dr Beth Glover and Simon Shepherd as Dr Will Preston, though the roster of doctors would change many times over the course of the series. Cardale was based on the Staffordshire village of Longnor for the final series, but was previously based in the Derbyshire village of Crich, although certain scenes were filmed at other nearby Derbyshire towns and villages, most notably Matlock, Belper and Ashover.
Peak Practice
1993 · 10 votes
TV7.6Action & AdventureCrimeThe 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.
The Professionals
1977 · 47 votes
TV7.9DramaMysteryAdventurer James Keziah Delaney returns to London from Africa in 1814 along with fourteen stolen diamonds to seek vengeance after the death of his father.
Taboo
2017 · 1.5K votes
TV7.5MysteryCrimeKeeping these streets clean is a Herculean task, enough to demoralize even the keenest rookie – but there’s a reason why this hotchpotch of committed cops are on this force, on this side of town. Drug labs, arsonists, neo-Nazis and notorious murderers are all in a day’s work for this close-knit team, led by the dizzyingly capable but unquestionably unhinged DI Vivienne Deering. But when a particularly twisted serial killer emerges it leaves even the most hardened of these seasoned coppers reeling.
No Offence
2015 · 74 votes
TV6.5DramaCrimeAs a child, Kate Ashby was rescued from the horrific aftermath of the Rwandan genocide and brought to the UK. But the tragic shadow of her past proves impossible to escape.
Black Earth Rising
2018 · 78 votes
TV7.3ComedyDramaComedy about the life and times of William Shakespeare as he starts to make a name for himself in London, whilst also trying to balance life as a husband and father for his family in Stratford-upon-Avon.
Upstart Crow
2016 · 55 votes
TV7.5ComedyFreddie and Stuart are an old couple who have been together for decades and bicker constantly. Their lives are turned upside down by their new upstairs neighbor Ash, who is sure to cause trouble in their mundane lives.
Vicious
2013 · 123 votes
TV7.2DramaChinese British Detective Sergeant John Ho solves cases in the East End of London. Ho fits the pattern of the maverick detective, prepared to use unorthodox methods to solve his cases, which emerged in series like Z Cars and The Sweeney.
The Chinese Detective
1981 · 5 votes
TVDramaA drama miniseries about Rachel Hamilton, a radio station reporter who investigates corruption in her community.
Thin Air
1988
TV5.8DramaLondon based petty crook Eddie Cass agrees to pick up a package and courier it across the capital. When nobody answers the door at the drop-off, Eddie opens the package and finds a woman’s severed head in a hatbox. He panics and dumps it in the River Thames. Returning home, Cass is kidnapped by the mysterious Eldridge and his heavies who inform Eddie that he has been framed for the murder.
Dead Head
1986 · 6 votes