Leonard Rossiter

Stanley Kubrick, klasik bilim kurgu başyapıtı olan insanlığın doğası üzerine bir yorum niteliğindeki 2001: Uzay Macerası ile film yapımının sınırlarını yeniden tanımladı. Taş Devri Dünyası: Yanı başlarında beliren esrarengiz siyah bir taş, primatların ilk defa alet kullanmasını sağlayarak akıl için ilk adımlar atılmıştır. 1999: Dünya’nın ay astronotları başka bir esrarengiz siyah taş ortaya çıkarırlar. 2001: Dünya ve Jüpiter arasında, uzay aracının akıllı bilgisayarı, insan ekibinin çoğunu öldüren bir hata yapar ve ardından hatasını gizlemek için öldürmeye devam eder. Zamanın Ötesi: Jüpiter’e yapılan yolculuktan tek sağ kalan, bir sonraki insanlık düzeyine yükselir.

1700'lerin tam ortasındayız. Genç bir İrlandalı olan Redmond Barry, bir subayı düelloda öldürünce kaçıp yeni bir hayat kurmak ister. Serüvenler sonucu kendisini savaşın ortasında Prusya ordusunda bulur. Savaştan sonra casuslukla görevlendirilip İrlandalı bir Şövalye'nin peşine takılır. Onunla birlikte Prusya'dan kaçar ve kumarbazlığa başlayarak Avrupa'nın kalburüstü sosyetesine burnunun ucunu sokmayı başarır. Ama gözü daha yükseklerdedir.

Baş müfettiş Jacques Clouseau polis şefi Charles’ın akıl hastanesine gönderilmesine neden olur. Sonra polis şefi bir yolunu bulup oradan kaçar ve müfettişi öldürmek için peşine düşer. Bu sürecin akabinde polis şefi farklı şeyler düşünüp dünyayı yönetmek istese de müfettiş kendi yöntemleri ile bu duruma el koyacak.

Pembe Panter elması bir kez daha çalınır ve tüm ciddiyetine ve iyi niyetine rağmen polis teşkilatının en sakar ve en beceriksiz elemanı olan Müfettiş Clouseau tekrar göreve çağrılır ancak Müfettiş Clouseau’nun uçağı görev yerine giderken kaybolur ve kahramanımızla tüm irtibat kesilir.

Küçük Oliver, tacize maruz kaldığı yetimhaneden bir şekilde kaçmayı başarmıştır. Yeni hayatına başladığında, birçok farklı ve ilginç karakterdeki insanla tanışmış; bu sayede yolculuğu bir maceraya dönüşmüştür. Bu sırada bir mentor tarafından yankesicilik yapmak üzere yetiştirilen bir grup çocukla tanışması, hayatının dönüm noktalarından birine doğurur. Tüm bu karmaşaların ortasında Oliver özlemini çektiği tek şeye, gerçek bir aileye kavuşabilecek midir?

A luxury liner carries Jewish refugees from Hitler's Germany in a desperate fight for survival.

Britannia Hospital, an esteemed English institution, is marking its gala anniversary with a visit by the Queen Mother herself. But when investigative reporter Mick Travis arrives to cover the celebration, he finds the hospital under siege by striking workers, ruthless unions, violent demonstrators, racist aristocrats, an African cannibal dictator, and sinister human experiments.

Film Japonlara esir düşmüş İngiliz ve Amerikalı askerlerin Singapur'daki Changi kampındaki son günlerini anlatıyor. Filmde Japonları neredeyse hiç görmüyoruz. karaborsanın, yalanın dolanın gırla gittiği, yüce askeri değerlerin, rütbelerin hiç bir anlam ifade etmediği kampın kralı amerikalı onbaşı king rolünde George Segal [ki kendisini just shoot me'nin babası olarak hatırlayabilirsiniz], king'in gerçek hayatta aynı salonlarda bulunmasının pek mümkün olmadığı kankası pete marlowe rolünde james fox ve bu ikisine beslediği düşmanlıkla ayakta duran sevimsiz teğmen grey rolünde tom courtenay harikalar yaratıyorlar.

In Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other—or can be made to have seemed to do so.

British agent Bulldog Drummond is assigned to stop a master criminal who uses beautiful women to do his killings.

A young Englishman dreams of escaping from his working class family and dead-end job as an undertaker's assistant. A number of indiscretions cause him to lie in order to avoid the penalties. His life turns into a mess and he has an opportunity to run away and leave it all behind.

Cat burglar Henry Clarke and his accomplices the Moreaus attempt to steal diamonds from the chateau of millionaire Salinas.

The British governor of a tiny island nation in the Caribbean Commonwealth finds his idyllic existence thrown into chaos when an American drilling company finds a huge source of natural mineral water there.

Frank Machin (Richard Harris) güçlü yapısı ve "vahşi" karakteriyle rugby sporunun zirvesine çıkmaya adaydır. Margaret Hammond (Rachel Roberts) ise Frank'in, kocasını iş kazasında kaybetmiş dul ve iki çocuklu ev sahibesidir. Frank, Margarete karşı hisler beslemekte ve hatta onunla ilgili evlilik planları yapmaktadır. Ancak Margaret, Frank ile arasındaki mesafeyi korumaya kararlıdır.

Frank Bengtsson'un kitabından uyarlanan bu filmde, Viking kardeşler Rolf ve Orm efsanevi altın çanı aramaya koyulurlar. Bunun için önce Norse Kralı'nın gemisini ve güzel kızını kaçırırlar. Moor Prensi onlara çok kızmıştır. Bu zorlu macerada ayrıca ayaklanmalar ve fırtınalarla da baş etmeleri gerekmektedir.

Stingy landlord Rigsby manages to scam his lodgers John, an art student, and Philip, an African medical student, making both pay for a room they must share. However Rigsby's favorite lodger, Miss Jones, flirts with Philip rather than him, despite his pitiful attempts at seduction.

A 'machinegunner' (West Country slang for a debt-collector) turns amateur sleuth, but finds himself in hot water with local criminals.

Following a nervous breakdown, Gwen takes up the job of head teacher in the small village of Haddaby. There she can benefit from the tranquillity and peace, enabling her to recover fully. But under the facade of idyllic country life she slowly unearths the frightening reality of village life in which the inhabitants are followers of a menacing satanic cult with the power to inflict indiscriminate evil and death if crossed.

Movie with some of the greatest brittish comedians such as Rowan Atkinson, John Cleese.

The writer and philosopher Voltaire decides to take action when he hears of a case of a man being tortured after being accused of murdering his son.

As Vic Brown vacillates between infatuation and disinterest for his co-worker Ingrid Rothwell, she finds out that she is pregnant and Vic has to reconcile how he thought his life would go with what life actually has in store for him.

Set in a cemetery, the film tells the story of a young man whom a blind man wrongly imagines to be black, and explores the nature of human prejudice.

Margaret Ross is an impoverished old woman who lives alone in a seedy apartment and enjoys a rich fantasy life as an heiress. One day she discovers stolen money hidden by her son and believes her fantasy has come true.

Swinging playboy Grand Duke Nicholas Goduno, a direct descendent of the Romanov family who were overthrown in the Russian Revolution of 1917, learns that his family's crown jewels will be exhibited at a London museum and plots to steal them. To this end, he gathers a crew of beautiful but dangerous women, led by Bridget Rafferty, to assist in his plot against Popov, the Soviet functionary in charge of the exhibit.

Play 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.

The BBC Television Shakespeare is a series of British television adaptations of the plays of William Shakespeare, created by Cedric Messina and produced by BBC Television. It was transmitted in the UK from 3 December 1978 to 27 April 1985 and spanned seven series. Development of the series began in 1975 when Messina saw that Glamis Castle would make a perfect location for an adaptation of Shakespeare's play As You Like It. On returning to London, he envisioned an entire series devoted exclusively to the dramatic works of Shakespeare. After encountering numerous problems trying to produce the series, Messina eventually pitched the idea to the BBC’s departmental heads and the series was greenlighted. The series as a whole received generally negative reviews from critics.

A 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.

Z-Cars or Z Cars is a British television drama series centred on the work of mobile uniformed police in the fictional town of Newtown, based on Kirkby, Merseyside. Produced by the BBC, it debuted in January 1962 and ran until September 1978.

Theatre 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.

An anthology series of television plays which aired on BBC1 from October 1964 to May 1970. The plays were usually written for television, although adaptations from other sources also featured.

ITV Playhouse is a British comedy-drama TV series that ran from 1967 to 1983, which featured contributions from playwrights such as Dennis Potter, Rhys Adrian and Alan Sharp. The series began in black and white, but was later shot in colour and was produced by various companies for the ITV network, a format that would inspire Dramarama. Actors appearing in the series included Leslie Anderson, Gwen Nelson, Ricky Alleyne, Pat Heywood, Michael Elphick, Ian Hendry, Edward Woodward, Margaret Lockwood, Jessie Matthews and Lloyd Peters.

An anthology of short plays shown on BBC Television between 1965 and 1973, used in part at least as a training ground for new writers, on account of its short length, and which therefore attracted many writers who later became well known.

Anthology series of dramatic works.

Thursday Theatre is a British television anthology programme produced by and aired on the BBC from 1964–1965. The productions ranged in duration from 75 to 95 minutes. Out of the 23 episodes, 13 are believed lost, and one is incomplete.

An anthology of plays and novels adapted into feature length TV movies, broadcast on BBC2 from September 1977 to April 1979.

Studio 4 is an anthology drama series utilising BBC Television Centre's Studio Four, and running for two series in 1962 on BBC One. It was envisaged as a sequel to Storyboard, a similar anthology series which had been transmitted the previous year.

A 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.

An anthology of single plays offering up adaptations of either of prominent stage plays or novels.

Redcap is a British television series produced by ABC Weekend Television for ITV. John Thaw stars as Sergeant John Mann, a member of the Special Investigation Branch of the Royal Military Police. It ran for 26 episodes over two series between 1964 and 1966, being about 50 minutes in a 60 minute time slot. Surprisingly for a 1960s ABC Weekend Television programme, 23 of the 26 episodes still exist.

Set in a seedy bedsit, the cowardly landlord Rigsby has his conceits debunked by his long suffering tenants.

18 short plays written especially for TV, an opportunity for up-and-coming directors such as floor manager Alan Clarke, who ended up doing 10 of the episodes. Some top ranking performers were attracted to the series.

Disillusioned after a long career at Sunshine Desserts, Reginald Iolanthe Perrin endures a midlife crisis and fakes his own death. Returning in disguise after various attempts at finding a 'new life', Perrin gets his old job back and finds nothing has changed. He is eventually found out, and later finds success with a chain of junk shops. However, it becomes so successful that he feels he has created a monster and decides to destroy it.

Follows the adventures of a group of four children, Wellington, Marlon, Maisie and Baby Grumpling. Plus their intellectual dog, Boot. The series is based on Maurice Dodd's long-running comic strip, The Perishers.

Tripper'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.

A six-part BBC2 drama about the Honourable Greville Carnforth, an aristocratic solicitor based in a small village community in the Lake District.

Anglia Television's 5 episode adaption of Lewis Caroll's Alice in Wonderland was inspired and based upon an early production put on by the famous Da Silva Puppets group at the Norwich Puppet Theatre.