Jeillo Edwards
Oyuncu · 1942 – 2004 · Malta Street, Freetown, Sierra Leone
Jeillo Angela Doris Edwards was born in Freetown, Sierra Leone, one of six children, and she attended the Annie Walsh Memorial School. Edwards moved to England in the late 1950s and studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She began performing at the age of four, reading from the Bible at her church. She was well known for her distinctive voice and imperious enunciation. She featured on the BBC World Service for Africa, which was broadcast in the UK. She became popular in the United Kingdom, appearing on television, where she was the first black woman to appear on British television as well as being the first African to appear on Dixon of Dock Green in 1972. She also appeared on television dramas such as The Professionals, The Bill and Casualty. She performed on British television, radio, stage and films for more than four decades. Edwards appeared in cameo roles in many British television comedy programmes, including The League of Gentlemen, Absolutely Fabulous, Red Dwarf, Black Books, Spaced and Little Britain, in which she had been planned to appear in the second series before her death. As well as acting she was a school governor and owned a restaurant called Auntie J's in Brixton. In the early 1970s, she married a Ghanaian, Edmund Clottey, and they had a daughter and two sons. Jeillo Edwards died in London on 2 July 2004, at the age of 61. She had suffered chronic kidney problems.
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Film6.9SuçDramNijerya'dan İngiltere'ye iltica etmiş olan Okwe (Chiwetel Ejiofor), Londra'da taksi şoförlüğü ve bir otelde komilik yaparak geçimini sağlamaya çalışmakta ve yoksul bir hayat sürmektedir. Ev arkadaşı olan Türk göçmeni Şenay (Audrey Tautou) ise aynı otelde hizmetçilik yapmaktadır. Yasadışı göçmenler olarak sınırdışı edilme korkusuyla yaşayan ikilinin hayatındaki değişimler Okwe'nin otelin resepsiyon masasında çalıştığı bir gün aldığı bir telefonla başlar. Bir otel odasındaki arızalı tuvaleti kontrol etmeye gittiğinde, kendisini sonradan Londra'nın karanlık yeraltı dünyasına gönderecek olan korkunç bir keşifte bulunur. Okwe'nin mafya maceralarına, Amerika'ya kaçmak için kendisine gereken parayı bulma umuduyla Şenay da katılır...
Film4.2Bilim KurguDramBased on the acclaimed novel by Doris Lessing, this dystopian science fiction tale concerns a woman struggling to make her way in a post-apocalyptic society. D (Julie Christie) is living in a city that's at the point of collapse following a catastrophic nuclear war; lawlessness and violence rule the day, and gangs of brutal youth roam the streets. With the help of her teenage companion Emily (Leonie Mellinger), D tries to make her way, and in order to cope, she often escapes into a fantasy world in which she lives in genteel Victorian surroundings in the 19th century.
Memoirs of a Survivor
1981 · 15 votes
Film7.3KomediDramDuring a long, hot summer on the Thamesmead Estate in Southeast London, three teenagers edge towards adulthood.
Beautiful Thing
1996 · 361 votes
Film5.3DramNine short stories based on the true experiences of London Underground passengers: "Mr. Cool" (Amy Jenkins, dir.); "Horny" (Stephen Hopkins); "Grasshopper" (Menhaj Huda); "My Father the Liar" (Bob Hoskins); "Bone" (Ewan McGregor); "Mouth" (Armando Iannucci); "A Bird in the Hand" (Jude Law); "Rosebud" (Gaby Dellal); "Steal Away" (Charles McDougall)
Tube Tales
1999 · 19 votes
Film7.0DramTV MovieClive decides he will go mad. Stark raving mad. His wife doesn't take him seriously, until Clive does something that makes her realise he means it.
Name for the Day
1980 · 1 votes
Film8.5DramKorkuLuke Lorenz is a artist whose paintings don't sell. His imaginative wife Sandra reasons that sales of his works would increase tenfold if he were to die, so they fake his death.
Paint Me a Murder
1984 · 2 votes
Film7.7DramKomediUnexpected events occur when Pat, a glamorous British-born star of American soaps, returns home to plug her auto-biography on television and meets, for the first time since they were teenagers, Margaret her plain and frumpy younger sister. The meeting is painful for both women highlighting the vast differences in their lives and resurrecting painful memories of their unhappy childhood with an uncaring, errant mother. The tabloid press smell a juicy story and a race ensues to trace the whereabouts of the long lost parent.
Pat and Margaret
1994 · 11 votes
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When a local black politician is murdered an undercover police officer unveils a web of police corruption which puts lives at risk and threatens the whole community.
Black and Blue
1992 · 1 votes
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A moody drama concerning the lonely but luxurious imprisonment of Napoleon Bonaparte on St Helena.
Betzi
1978 · 1 votes
Film"By local custom, a man may turn from a wife who cannot give him more than one son. But Charles assures Maria that he is a 'modern educated man'. When war drives them back to their village, events force Maria to re-think their marriage." - Radio Times, 1976
- Film10.0DramSuç
DC Lenny Milton (Winstone) is not as ambitious as his best friend and popular boss DCI Michael Love (Dunbar), but the pair are drinking partners and their wives and children are close. However, this goes very wrong over the space of 7 days, when Milton is approached by the police complaints division asking him to go undercover and investigate allegations of corruption against his friend. Milton finds this difficult at first and tries to dismiss the evidence building up. But as his suspicions begin to take shape his position appears to be in danger.
Tough Love
2000 · 1 votes
Film6.8KomediDramAn innocent and unsophisticated Guyanese immigrant is exposed to the hustlin' way of life in the Brixton ghetto.
Black Joy
1977 · 8 votes
FilmTwo parents get to know each other on a neonatal unit. One has a baby with Down's syndrome.
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Amanda is a student obsessed with all things French. Holed up with the flu in her Brixton flat, she is awoken in the dead of night by a burglar who's broken into the wrong house. Amanda falls in love with the intruder but as their love blooms, her flat starts to fill up with stolen goods.
Paris, Brixton
1997 · 1 votes
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Elphida is 30. She has been married for 13 years and has 3 children. She plans to restart her education when her youngest child goes to nursery. Then the nursery is closed. On top of this, her parents are contemplating divorce and want her to act as a go between.
Elphida
1987
Film7.0The story of an adventurous odyssey experienced by a group of West Africans to build a new life in Germany.
Anansi
2003 · 1 votes
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Dizi6.2DramPembe Diziİngiliz ait tıbbi dram televizyon dizisi Casualty (Kaza) , 6 Eylül 1986 tarihinde yayınlanmaya başladi.
Casualty
1986 · 88 votes
Dizi6.8SuçDramThe 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
Dizi7.6Aksiyon ve MaceraSuçThe 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
Dizi8.1KomediBilim Kurgu ve FantastikThe adventures of the last human alive and his friends, stranded three million years into deep space on the mining ship Red Dwarf.
Red Dwarf
1988 · 462 votes
Dizi7.6KomediSet in the world of fashion and PR, immature fun-loving mother Edina Monsoon and her best friend Patsy drive Eddie's sensible daughter, Saffron, up the wall with their constant drug abuse and outrageous selfishness. Numerous in-jokes and heavy doses of cruel humour have made this series a cult hit in the UK and abroad.
Absolutely Fabulous
1992 · 196 votes
Dizi7.1DramKomediRumpole of the Bailey is a British television series created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer. It stars Leo McKern as Horace Rumpole, an aging London barrister who defends any and all clients, and has been spun off into a series of short stories, novels, and radio programmes.
Rumpole of the Bailey
1975 · 24 votes
Dizi6.5GizemDramA short-lived anthology television series from Hammer Studios. Though similar in format to the 1980 series Hammer House of Horror, the Mystery and Suspense series had feature-length episodes, usually running around 70 minutes without commercials. Co-produced by Hammer Studios with 20th Century Fox Television, it is known in the United States as Fox Mystery Theater. Unlike 1980's Hammer House of Horror, all episodes feature American actors as either the leads or in key roles. It first broadcast in the UK on ITV in 1984, though was not simulcast and was shown in different timeslots throughout the various regions.
Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense
1984 · 10 votes
Dizi7.0DramAnthology series of half hour plays produced in BBC's Television Centre's studios.
Centre Play
1973 · 1 votes
Dizi8.3DramSuçA series of self-contained stories, each recounting a murder scene as seen from the chilling viewpoint of the killer. Explore the inner workings of a criminal's brain, revealing humanity at its darkest.
Murder in Mind
2001 · 11 votes
Dizi8.1Komedi'Black Books', huysuz, ayyaş ve eksantrik sahaf Bernard Black'i merkezine alır. Bernard'ın hayatını adadığı sarhoşluk ve gıcıklık ikilisi, asistanı Manny'nin hayatına da sirayet eder. Bernard'ın tam zıttı olan iyi kalpli Manny, sırf var olduğu için sürekli patronunun gazabına uğrar. En eski arkadaşları Fran ise dikkatini dağıtmak için onlara uğrar. Bu kitap, şarap ve sohbet üçgenindeki tek tehdit, karakterlerin kendi sınırsız ahmaklığıdır.
Black Books
2000 · 641 votes
Dizi7.9KomediSpaced: the anti-Friends, in that it examines the lives of common 20 somethings, but in a way that is more down to earth and realistic. Here we have Daisy and Tim; two 'young' adults with big dreams just trying to get by in this crazy world. They are thrown together in a common pursuit of tenancy, which they find by posing as a couple. The house has a landlady and an oddball artist living there. The series explores the ins and outs of London living.
Spaced
1999 · 519 votes
Dizi7.0DramMurder Investigation Team is a British police procedural drama series produced by the ITV network as a spin-off from the long-running series, The Bill. The series is based around the cases of a Murder Investigation Team, who are linked to the Sun Hill borough of London, as featured in The Bill.
Murder Investigation Team
2003 · 4 votes
Dizi5.5KomediTripper's Day is a British sitcom produced by Thames Television for ITV, starring Leonard Rossiter as a small London supermarket manager whose best intentions are constantly thwarted by the lazy, useless bunch of bums he employs. The programme is largely remembered for the negative reception, and primarily for the fact that it was Rossiter's final television work, the actor dying between the broadcast of the second and third episodes. The series was revived two years later with Bruce Forsyth in the lead role, under the new title Slinger's Day. In Canada and United States, it was remade as Check it Out!, whilst in Sweden, comical duo Stefan & Krister starred in Full Frys, a TV series largely based on both prior iterations.
Tripper's Day
1984 · 4 votes
DiziKomediRoom Service was a 1979 Thames Television comedy series, notable as being written by Jimmy Perry without his usual writing partner David Croft. It and Perry's other work without Croft, High Street Blues "remain contenders for the title of worst British sitcom". The cast included Penelope Nice, Bryan Pringle and Matthew Kelly.
Room Service
1979