
Herbert Norville
Actor · b. 1967 · London, England, UK
Herbert Norville is an actor known for his appearances in many British films in the 1970s and '80s such as Scum (1979), Pressure (1976), Meantime (1983), Full Metal Jacket (1987) and Bugsy Malone (1976)
Movies17
Movie8.1DramaWarA pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.
Full Metal Jacket
1987 · 11K votes
Movie7.1DramaCrimeCarlin is a new reform school inmate with a reputation as a hard case. The authorities encourage gang leader Pongo to humble Carlin, but Carlin overtakes Pongo as Daddy of the ward. The guards institute a reign of terror and neglect, with Carlin emerging as an unlikely leader.
Scum
1979 · 222 votes
Movie6.6DramaCrimeA seemingly respectable estate agent leads a double life as the head of a vicious, well-organised gang of football hooligans. When 'The Firm' decide to confront a rival gang, it ends in tragedy.
The Firm
1989 · 90 votes
Movie6.7DramaComedyA working-class family in London's East End is struggling to stay afloat during the recession under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's premiership. Only the mother Mavis is working; father Frank and the couple's two sons Colin, a timid, chronically shy individual and Mark, an outspoken, headstrong young man, are on the dole. This situation is contrasted by the presence of Mavis's sister Barbara, and her husband John, whose financial and social loftiness appears to be a comfortable facade over the unspoken soreness of a lackluster marriage.
Meantime
1983 · 109 votes
MovieHorrorIn a barren wilderness, a homeless man is kept and tortured, before being let loose into the wild for his delusional religious captors to hunt him for sport.
Red Fox
2023
Movie5.2DramaComedyA dedicated teacher tries to reach out to juvenile delinquent students at a London alternative school.
The Class Of Miss MacMichael
1978 · 6 votes
Movie8.0MysteryCrimeAn irreverent barrister chooses to defend a young Jamaican boy accused of stabbing on the same day his only son leaves for college in America.
Rumpole of the Bailey
1975 · 3 votes
Movie6.5DramaA British-born younger son of an immigrant family from Trinidad finds himself adrift between two cultures.
Pressure
1976 · 13 votes
Movie5.0DramaTV MovieVinny Mathews is a small time boxing promoter who struggles with his conscience over what to do with a fighter he knows is unfit to face his opponent. However, Mathews needs sponsorship and this would be the ideal opportunity to mix with the "frilly shirted" sportsmen who enjoy their lavish lifestyle as fighters slug it out as the steak is served!
Dinner at the Sporting Club
1978 · 2 votes
Movie8.0HorrorTV MovieA misfit teenage checkout operator has an unrequited crush on her supermarket manager. At the same shop's cuddly cartoon mascot seems to have come alive and is causing havoc. Created as an episode of Nigel Kneale’s “Beasts” horror anthology miniseries.
Beasts: Special Offer
1976 · 1 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
Movie9.0A quiet, middle-aged couple living in Chelsea start to receive threatening letters through the post - and then things take a sinister turn as their beloved poodle, Tina, is kidnapped. A smart young copper from the local force decides to investigate -
A Dog's Ransom
1978 · 1 votes
Movie7.0ComedyDramaComedy featuring interweaving stories of seven households caught up in a property chain on moving day, each one dependent on the other.
The Chain
1984 · 7 votes
MovieDramaTV MovieSusan and Jenny are aged 13 and 14 and in care. Jenny's mother has died, Susan hasn't seen hers for years. Both influence the close, stormy relationship that develops between the two girls.
Movie7.0DramaA U.S. soldier sees the Berlin Wall go up in 1961 and helps a group of East Germans escape to the West.
Wall of Tyranny
1988 · 1 votes
MovieDramaSixteen-year-old Otis loathes school. He wants to be a professional footballer, but is good at drawing, so his mother wants him to be a draughtsman. Then, a new sports teacher appears at his South London comprehensive school, and life starts to look a little more hopeful...
Movie5.9ComedyDramaA boy goes to see his probation officer.
Probation
1982 · 7 votes
Series11
TV6.8CrimeDramaThe 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 drug raids to the routine demands of policing this ground-breaking series focuses as much on crime as it does on the personal lives of its characters.
The Bill
1984 · 47 votes
TV7.1ComedyDramaRoguish comedy drama following the misadventures of small-time crook Arthur Daley.
Minder
1979 · 30 votes
TV7.0DramaComedyAn anthology of plays and novels adapted into feature length TV movies, broadcast on BBC2 from September 1977 to April 1979.
BBC2 Play of the Week
1977 · 1 votes
TV7.9ComedyThe misadventures of four lunatic students who live in a shared student house. There's Rick, the overblown political one addicted to Cliff Richard, Vyvyan the experimental scientific one/part-time anarchist, Neil the worried hippy, and Mike the ladies' man (at least he is in his mind).
The Young Ones
1982 · 153 votes
TV7.2DramaSoapA young actress gathers three former school friends to find out which one is her natural mother, who gave her up for adoption as a newborn.
Lace
1984 · 23 votes
TV6.7ComedyRichie causes trouble in his pursuit of TV fame with Eddie, his alcoholic minder, and Filthy, his sponging agent.
Filthy Rich & Catflap
1987 · 31 votes
TV5.8ComedyThe Fosters is a British sitcom created and written by Jon Watkins and Eric Monte. It showcases the early work of Lenny Henry as the budding artist son of easygoing family man Samuel Foster (Norman Beaton). The series follows the day-to-day trials of Samuel, his lively wife Pearl (both immigrants from Guyana) and their three children on a South London housing estate.
The Fosters
1976 · 8 votes
TV7.5CrimeDramaFollows the linked fates of nine bank robbers, led by George. It begins with the nine men meeting in prison during their appeal and traces each individual after the group escape from custody.
Villains
1972 · 4 votes
TV6.4Sci-Fi & FantasyDramaBeasts is a series of six television plays by Manx writer Nigel Kneale, unconnected save for a bestial horror theme, made by ATV for ITV in the United Kingdom and broadcast in 1976. The series avoids typical monster horror clichès, moreso focusing on psychological and supernatural themes.
Beasts
1976 · 8 votes
TV6.0DramaAn anthology series of six contemporary plays from writers at relatively early stages in their careers.
Plays for Britain
1976 · 1 votes
TV8.0DramaFamilyA group of 16-year-olds—Sean, Sammy, Roger, Dikey, Gerry, and Cathy—graduate from Meadowcroft Comprehensive School and are now out in the world looking for work.
Going Out
1981 · 2 votes