Christopher Witty
Actor · b. 1950 · Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, UK
English actor who "retired" in 1970 aged twenty to pursue a career in motor sport journalism. His post acting career has been highly successful and his sports marketing, management and public relations concerns are well known internationally.
Movies13
Movie7.0MysteryCrimeTwo Scotland Yard detectives investigate the murder of a young woman of mixed race who had been passing for white. As they interview a spate of suspects -- including the girl's white boyfriend and his disapproving parents -- the detectives wade through a stubbornly entrenched sludge of racism and bigotry.
Sapphire
1959 · 53 votes
Movie5.0ComedyAdventureThe British send an American and a war hero to kidnap and hide an oil-country prince.
Masquerade
1965 · 18 votes
Movie6.7DramaFamilyAt the dawn of the 20th century, following their father's arrest on suspicion of betraying state secrets, the three Waterbury children—Bobbie, Phyllis and Peter—move with their mother to Yorkshire, where they find themselves involved in unexpected dramas along the railway by their new home.
The Railway Children
1970 · 105 votes
Movie6.3HorrorScience FictionAn American tourist and a troubled young woman are chased by her gang leader brother to a top secret British government facility that conducts experiments on children.
The Damned
1962 · 131 votes
Movie5.1DramaFollowing the suicide of her mother, an emotionally disoriented schoolgirl is swept away to live in the countryside by wealthy family friends. Her entangled need for comfort and desire to explore her powers of sexual fascination soon embroils the entire household.
Baby Love
1969 · 24 votes
Movie6.0DramaThe interwoven dramas of staff and patients in Mayfield Children's Hospital, where the doctors and nurses are in the business of restoring children's lives. One small child risks losing his sight, while twin boys fool the doctors over which one has appendicitis. Meanwhile, behind the scenes, new nurse Margaret Collier suffers pangs of unrequited love for houseman Dr. Nigel Barnes.
No Time for Tears
1957 · 4 votes
Movie6.1ComedyA young couple, David and Catherine Robinson, has to turn their large country house into a money-making proposition. Their solution is to invite the kids of the rich and famous to spend a summer enjoying all the loving care and attention they miss at home. After the youngsters arrive, David quickly realizes what the offensive little punks need is some real discipline, and so the summer begins.
No Kidding
1960 · 9 votes
Movie7.0FantasyDramaA school story with a noticeable difference – the adults regress to children.
The Right Prospectus
1970 · 1 votes
Movie8.3CrimeDramaPanic and fear overtake a small British farming community after a homicidal child-killer escapes from a local mental hospital.
Life in Danger
1959 · 3 votes
Movie5.5ComedyRomanceJudith Wynter is a happily married novelist whose romantic works are eagerly devoured by scores of female readers. When Carlo, a handsome young Italian chauffeur, arrives to work for Judith and her husband, a professor currently recovering from an attack of paralysis, he causes quite a flutter; when he then reads the manuscript of Judith's latest novel, he jumps to a rather unfortunate conclusion... and life in the Wynter household becomes very complicated indeed!
The Passionate Stranger
1957 · 13 votes
Movie7.0FamilyStory of a group of children and their efforts to prevent the War Office from closing their beloved beach to make a rocket-launching site.
Rockets in the Dunes
1960 · 2 votes
- MovieDramaTV Movie
Rejected now by both family and friends, Max has only three weeks left in which to find a solution to his problems.
Movie7.7FamilyJimpy leads a gang of kids as they attempt to beat another gang, no matter how underhanded their tactics are.
Go Kart Go
1964 · 3 votes
Series6
TV5.2DramaA BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stage actors in the leading roles. The series was transmitted from October 1965 to September 1983.
BBC Play of the Month
1965 · 8 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
- TVDrama
Drama 61-67 is anthology drama series which took a different title, based on year of transmission, each year. It alternated with Armchair Theatre from ABC in the Sunday evening slot. The series was described at the time as epitomising ATV drama.
Drama 61-67
1961
TV8.2The Human Jungle is a British TV series about a psychiatrist, made for ABC Television by the small production company Independent Artists for transmission on ITV. Starring Herbert Lom, it ran for two series which were first transmitted during 1963 and 1965.
The Human Jungle
1963 · 5 votes
TV9.0Action & AdventureFamilyA kid-friendly take on the exploits of King Richard the Lion Heart, from his participation in the Crusades, to his capture in Austria, to his final return to England.
Richard the Lionheart
1962 · 1 votes
TV7.0DramaNicholas Nickleby, a young boy in search of a better life, struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of his coldheartedly grasping uncle.
Nicholas Nickleby
1968 · 1 votes