
Michael Balfour
Oyuncu · 1918 – 1997 · Dover, Kent, England, UK
Michael Creighton Balfour (11 February 1918 – 24 October 1997) was an English actor, working mainly in British films and TV, following his TV debut in the BBC's The Marvellous History of St Bernard, in 1938. He was a recognisable face, often in small character parts and supporting roles, in nearly two hundred films and TV shows, from the 1940s to the 1990s, often playing comical heavies or otherwise shady characters notable for their "loud" clothes, sometimes convincingly cast as an American. He worked for a roll call of film directors, including Tony Richardson, Pete Walker, Billy Wilder, Lewis Gilbert, Roman Polanski, Leslie Norman, Tim Burton, John Frankenheimer, François Truffaut, John Gilling, Stanley Donen, Ken Annakin, Cavalcanti, Lance Comfort, Terence Young, Gerald Thomas, Pasolini, John Paddy Carstairs, Terence Fisher, Val Guest, Frank Launder, John Huston, Basil Dearden and Howard Hawks. Balfour had parts in many popular TV shows of the era including Educated Evans, Mess Mates, Danger Man, The Avengers, Hancock's Half Hour, Dixon of Dock Green, Rogue's Gallery, Z-Cars, The Onedin Line, and the detective drama The Vise, playing Saber's assistant Barney O'Keefe. Balfour was also known as the passenger in a Jaguar XK120 car driven by actor Bonar Colleano when it crashed, killing Colleano. Balfour's injuries required him to have 98 stitches, but he was released from hospital in time to attend Colleano's funeral. As his screen career began to slow down in the late 1970s, Michael Balfour went on tour with European circuses, as a clown. He founded Circus Hazzard, and created his own clown character. His son later became a circus manager. As well as performing, Balfour was a dedicated painter and sculptor, and in later years turned increasingly to sculpture and the arts, even running his own gallery for a while. For his subjects, he frequently drew on his own family career as a circus clown
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Film7.2FantastikAksiyonGotham Şehri, karanlık, tehlikeli ve gotik! Tek koruyucusu ise çoğunluğu çürümüş durumdaki Polis departmanı. Savcı Harvey Dent ile komiser Gordon’un tüm çabalarına karşın, şehir giderek daha güvensiz bir hale gelmektedir... ta ki Kara Şovalye ortaya çıkana dek.Suçlular çoğunlukla batıl inanç sahibidir, ve korkak... bu yüzden kendisine onların yüreğine korku salacak bir gizli kimlik seçmiştir. O bir yarasadır. Yarasa-adam, Batman!Ödüllü bir gazeteci olan genç ve güzel Vicky Vale, esrarengiz yarasa-adamın sırrını çözmeye kararlıdır. Öte yandan Jack Napier, yanlışlıkla asit kazanına düştükten sonra şehrin psikopat palyaço suç kıralına, Batman’in azılı düşmanı sinirbozucu Joker’e dönüşür.
Batman
1989 · 8.8K votes
Film7.1DramBilim KurguFilmde iki role sahip olan Julie Christie hem Oskar Werner’in kuralcı ve zevk peşinde koşan eşi Linda’yı hem de kitap koleksiyoncusu metresi Clarisse’i oynuyor. Montag devlet tarafından kitapları yakmak üzere görevlendirilmiş bir itfaiye eridir. Kitap okumaya cesaret eden devrimci öğretmen Clarisse ile tanışınca kendisini kaçak avının içinde bulur. Montag, sadece iki kadın arasında değil, kişisel güvenliği ve fikir mülkiyeti arasında da seçim yapmak zorundadır.
Film6.1KomediTarihCanterbury'e giden bir grup keşiş, yolda vakit öldürmek için birbirlerine öyküler anlatmaya başlarlar. Fakat bütün bu öykülerin ortak bir yanı vardır: hepsi de son derece açık saçık öykülerdir. Bu noktadan itibaren sırayla anlatılan öyküleri dinlemeye ve izlemeye başlarız. Açık saçık olmalarının yanında aslında hepsi de, kilise ve papazların yaşam tarzlarına yöneltilen bir eleştiri ve insan doğasında bulunan zaafların mizahi bir yoldan ele alınmasını içermektedir.
Film6.8GizemSuçTüm zamanların en sevilen ve en başarılı detektifi Sherlock Holmes’un gizli kalmış anıları ve birbirinden heyecanlı maceralarını anlatan filmde, kocasını kaybettiğini söyleyen güzel bir kadın, detektifimiz Sherlock Holmes’u bulur ve bu macera Dr. Watson’la birlikte onları İskoçya’ya sürükler.
Film7.1SavaşDramBir İskoç lordunun, kralı öldürüp tahta çıkmasıyla ilgili Shakespeare trajedisinin Roman Polanski versiyonudur. Karısı daha sonra suçluluk kompleksinin bir sonucu olarak halüsinasyonlar görmeye başlar. Ölen kralın oğlu, Macbeth'e saldırmak ve onu katil olarak ifşa etmek için komplo kurar.
Macbeth
1971 · 306 votes
Film6.4Bilim KurguKorkuIn England, a group of space scientists led by Bernard Quatermass, who have developed plans for the first Moon colony, learn that a secret, ostensibly government-run, complex of identical design has been built in a remote part of England and is the focus of periodic falls of small, hollow "meteorites" originating in outer space. Quatermass determines to investigate and uncovers a terrifying extraterrestrial life form which has already begun action to take over the Earth.
Quatermass 2
1957 · 152 votes
Film6.8SavaşDram2. Dünya Savaşı'ndan tüyler ürpertici, gerçek bir hikaye... İngiliz denizciler, 2. Dünya Savaşı'nda bir alman savaş gemisinin peşine düşerler. Gemiyi bulmaları ve yok etmeleri gerekmektedir.
Film5.7AksiyonMaceraAnthony Hope's classic tale gets a decidedly 'un-classic' treatment at the hands of Peter Sellers. Following the story somewhat, friends of the new King Rudolph of Ruritania fear for his life, and switch him with a look-a-like London cabby. Throw in two(!) lovely blondes, treachery, and a battle for life and honour, and enjoy life at its zaniest.
The Prisoner of Zenda
1979 · 41 votes
Film4.8SuçDramA French reporter working on a steamy story about the secret strip joints found in London's Soho district becomes involved in the lives of the owner and star of a famous club.
Too Hot to Handle
1960 · 24 votes
Film6.7DramA disillusioned, angry university graduate comes to terms with his grudge against middle-class life and values.
Look Back in Anger
1959 · 80 votes
Film6.9AileBüyük bir İngiliz malikanesinde bir yetim, bir korsanın hazinesini ortaya çıkarmak için bir dolandırıcıyla iş birliği yapar ve aidiyet duygusu ile aile sıcaklığını keşfeder.
Film5.1MaceraSuçSpecial investigator Duke Martin is in London to investigate the authenticity of a rare postage stamp called the Barbados Overplate. Someone is willing to commit murder to get his or her hands on the stamp, which puts a crimp in Duke's efforts to romance every beautiful woman he meets.
Barbados Quest
1955 · 7 votes
Film6.7KorkuEdinburgh surgeon Dr. Robert Knox requires cadavers for his research into the functioning of the human body; local ne'er-do-wells Burke and Hare find ways to provide him with fresh specimens...
The Flesh and the Fiends
1960 · 60 votes
Film6.6DramIn 1890 Paris, Moulin Rouge is a nightclub where crippled artist Toulouse-Lautrec feels like he fits in. In the following years, he meets two women who provide an opportunity for him to find true love.
Moulin Rouge
1952 · 118 votes
Film6.9KomediRomantikAfter marrying an American lieutenant with whom he was assigned to work in post-war Germany, a French captain attempts to find a way to accompany her back to the States under the terms of the War Bride Act.
I Was a Male War Bride
1949 · 151 votes
Film7.2DramSavaşDuring the autumn of 1944, RAF Hudson, carrying a VIP passenger in possession of highly secret information, is shot down and ditches in the North Sea. Fighting the elements and trying to keep up morale, the occupants of the aircraft's dinghy talk about their lives awaiting the rescue they hope will come. The film's title reflects the motto of the RAF's Air Sea Rescue Service, one of whose high speed launches battles against its own mechanical problems, enemy action, time and the weather to locate and rescue the downed crew and the vital secret papers they carry.
The Sea Shall Not Have Them
1954 · 17 votes
Film4.7DramAksiyonThe wealthy playboy son of an assassinated South American diplomat discovers that his father was murdered on orders of the corrupt president of the country- a man who was his father's friend and who, in fact, his father had helped put into power. He returns from living a jet-set life in Europe to lead a revolution against the government, only to find out that things aren't quite as black and white as he'd assumed.
The Adventurers
1970 · 13 votes
Film5.5AksiyonGerilimNew York’ta yaşayan mimar Noel Holcroft, babasının gizli Nazi geçmişini öğrendiğinde hayatı altüst olur. Vasiyetinde, Holcroft’a dünyayı değiştirecek 4.5 milyar dolarlık bir fon bırakılmıştır. Ancak bu paranın asıl amacı, Üçüncü Reich’ın gizli mirasçılarını iktidara taşımaktır! Noel, Alman direnişçilerin kızları Helden ve Kessler ile tehlikeli bir işbirliği yaparken, her adımda ölümle burun buruna gelir. Berlin’den İsviçre’ye uzanan ölümcül bir komplonun içinde, kimseye güvenemeyeceğini anlar.
Film6.0DramSuçTwins Ronnie and Reggie Kray are raised in east London, under the influence of their hateful but doting mother Violet. As they grow up, Ronnie's violent nature takes over, and Reggie follows his brother's lead. The two become notorious crime lords who rule over the East End club scene. But at the height of their power, the brothers veer into different lives, giving the older crime bosses a chance to reclaim what the Krays took from them.
Film4.1KomediRomantikThe life story of an 18th century womanizer who's arrested, not so much for his crimes, but because he's viewed as an undesirable by the husbands and families of the women he seduces.
Casanova
1987 · 12 votes
Film6.7SuçDramA U.S. sailor docks in London and in three days tries to save his brother from the gallows.
3 Steps to the Gallows
1953 · 10 votes
Film6.2GerilimGizemTravelling to Venice to locate an ex-partisan on behalf of a French insurance company, a British private detective gets mixed-up in a political assassination conspiracy.
Venetian Bird
1952 · 18 votes
Film6.1SuçA sheltered heiress is abducted on her wedding night by a trio of cheap hoods.
No Orchids for Miss Blandish
1948 · 27 votes
Film7.7KomediRomantikAn English lord who dislikes women meets a French movie star who dislikes men.
Woman Hater
1948 · 3 votes
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Dizi7.8Aksiyon ve MaceraSuçA quirky spy show of the adventures of eccentrically suave British Agent John Steed and his predominantly female partners. Jonathan Steed - an urbane, proper gentleman spy - teams with various assistants throughout the series' run, including Dr. David Keel, Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King, to repeatedly save the world from diabolical schemes plotted by equally diabolical evil-doers (among them robots and man-eating monsters).
The Avengers
1961 · 157 votes
Dizi7.0Anthology series of dramatic works.
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969 · 3 votes
Dizi7.3Aksiyon ve MaceraDramDanger Man is a British television series which was broadcast between 1960 and 1962, and again between 1964 and 1968. The series featured Patrick McGoohan as secret agent John Drake. Ralph Smart created the programme and wrote many of the scripts. Danger Man was financed by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment.
Danger Man
1960 · 25 votes
Dizi7.7KomediAksiyon ve MaceraAn English aristocrat and an American millionaire come together to tackle crime.
The Persuaders!
1971 · 135 votes
Dizi6.3SuçDramNew 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
Dizi3.5DramSunday Night Theatre was a long-running series of televised live television plays screened by BBC Television from early 1950 until 1959. The productions for the first five years or so of the run were re-staged live the following Thursday, partly because of technical limitations in this era, and the theatrical basis of early television drama. Some of the earliest collaborations between Rudolph Cartier and Nigel Neale were produced for this series, including Arrow to the Heart and Nineteen Eighty-Four. The Sunday night drama slot was subsequently renamed The Sunday-Night Play which ran for four seasons between 1960 and 1963. ITV transmitted its own unrelated run of Sunday Night Theatre between 1971 and 1974.
Sunday Night Theatre
1950 · 2 votes
Dizi6.0DramDixon of Dock Green was a BBC television series following the activities of police officers at a fictional Metropolitan Police station in the East End of London from 1955 to 1976. Some episodes were later remade as a BBC radio series in 2005 and 2006.
Dixon of Dock Green
1955 · 4 votes
Dizi7.7DramBilim Kurgu ve FantastikAfter 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
Dizi6.8Aksiyon ve MaceraDramDempsey and Makepeace is a British television crime drama made by London Weekend Television for ITV, created and produced by Ranald Graham. The leading roles were played by Michael Brandon and Glynis Barber, who later married each other on 18 November 1989. The series combined elements of previous series such as the mis-matching of British and American crime-fighters from different classes as seen in The Persuaders! and the action of The Professionals.
Dempsey and Makepeace
1985 · 33 votes
Dizi7.4KomediHancock's Half Hour is a BBC television comedy series of the 1950s and 60s written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. The series starred Tony Hancock with Sid James. The final series, renamed simply Hancock, starred Hancock alone. Comedian Tony Hancock starred in the show, playing an exaggerated and much poorer version of his own character and lifestyle, Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock, a down-at-heel comedian living at the dilapidated 23 Railway Cuttings in East Cheam. The series was influential in the development of the situation comedy, with its move away from radio variety towards a focus on character development.
Hancock's Half Hour
1956 · 9 votes
Dizi7.2SuçDramThe adventures of Interpol policemen Duval and Mornay as they fought against international drug-running, homicide, robbery and forgery.
Interpol Calling
1959 · 4 votes
Dizi5.5Aksiyon ve MaceraDramDepartment S is a United Kingdom spy-fi adventure series produced by ITC Entertainment. The series consists of 28 episodes which originally aired in 1969–1970. It starred Peter Wyngarde as author Jason King, Joel Fabiani as Stewart Sullivan, and Rosemary Nicols as computer expert Annabelle Hurst. The trio were agents for a fictional special department of Interpol. The head of Department S was Sir Curtis Seretse.
Department S
1969 · 17 votes
Dizi7.8KomediA father and son who work as rag-and-bone men live together in Shepherd's Bush, London. While Albert is content with their way of life, Harold aspires to better himself and build a life of his own, but his attempts are repeatedly thwarted by his father, leading to frequent clashes between the two.
Steptoe and Son
1962 · 39 votes
Dizi7.6KomediDram'The Larkins' is a British television sitcom which was produced by Associated Television and aired on ITV. It aired for four series between 1958 to 1960. An additional two series aired from 1963 to 1964.
The Larkins
1958 · 5 votes
- DiziDramKomedi
An anthology of 1920s set plays and musicals, transmissioned from 10 September to 10 December 1968 on BBC One.
The Jazz Age
1968
- DiziDram
Anthology of 70-minute UK dramatic productions.
Theatre '70
1960
Dizi5.0DramThe Mind of Mr. J.G. Reeder is based on a character created by Edgar Wallace in a series of 1925 short stories of the same name, Hugh Burden played the titular character – A mild-mannered investigator with the Department of Public Prosecutions.
The Mind of Mr. J.G. Reeder
1969 · 1 votes
- DiziDram
Late Night Theatre is a UK television anthology series produced by Granada Television, Scottish Television (STV), Southern Television, and Westward Television. Forty-four episodes were aired on ITV (TV network) from 1972–1974.
Dizi6.0DramArmchair Theatre is a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produced by Associated British Corporation, and later by Thames Television from mid-1968.
Armchair Theatre
1956 · 6 votes
DiziKomediDramMickey Dunne followed the misadventures of the titular gambling streetwise Cockney wide-boy who managed to survive on his wits and gift of the gab as he picked his way from one female companion to the next whilst talking himself into as many free dinners as possible.
Mickey Dunne
1967
DiziSuçDramA series of three minute strange tales narrated by Peter Williams.