Frank Singuineau
Oyuncu · 1913 – 1992 · Port of Spain, Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago
Francis Ethlebert Singuineau (April 8, 1913 - September 11, 1992), known as Frank Singuineau, was a Trinidadian actor of stage and screen who worked in Britain, where he moved from Trinidad and Tobago in the 1940s. Employed by the Shell Company, he took an active interest in Amateur Dramatics. Just after the Second World War he gave up his job with Shell, travelled to London and became an actor, acting with the Unity Theatre and the Bristol Old Vic.[1] His London stage debut was in 1948 in Richard Wright's Native Son (1948), and Singuineau's acting career spanned the subsequent decades until his last roles in Lillian Hellman's Watch on the Rhine at the Royal National Theatre and Mustapha Matura's Playboy of the West Indies at the Tricycle Theatre in 1984. Singuineau also appeared in such films as The Pumpkin Eater, Séance on a Wet Afternoon, Pressure and An American Werewolf in London and in several television series including Z-Cars, Crane, and Doomwatch. Singuineau retired in the late 1980s. He died on 11 September 1992 in London, England at the age of 79.
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Film7.4KomediKorkuAmerika'dan gelen iki genç öğrenci, İngiltere kırsalında ne olduğunu anlamadıkları bir yaratığın saldırısına uğrar. Arkadaşını bu saldırı sonucu kaybeden David ise hayatta kaldığına pişman olacaktır. Çünkü, lânet artık onun da kanına girmiştir.
Film7.4GerilimKorkuMichael Powell'in kariyerini mahveden kötü şöhretli filmi Peeping Tom'da (Röntgenci), kameranın saldırgan bir obje olarak kullanımı filme rahatsız edici bir hava katmıştır. Mark Lewis (Carl Boehm) isimli bir genç, kendisini kadınlara belgesel yönetmeni olarak tanıtır. Ancak kamerasının içinde, filme aldığı kişiyi öldürmek için kullandığı sivri uçlu bir metal vardır. Bu durumu, filmin başında kameranın vizöründen görerek tanık olduğumuz sinir bozucu cinayet kaydıyla öğreniriz.
Film7.2DramAfter leaving a wealthy Belgian family to become a nun, Sister Luke struggles with her devotion to her vows during crisis, disappointment, and World War II.
The Nun's Story
1959 · 205 votes
Film6.7KorkuOne by one the archaeologists who discover the 4,000-year-old tomb of Princess Ananka are brutally murdered. Kharis, high priest in Egypt 40 centuries ago, has been brought to life by the power of the ancient gods and his sole purpose is to destroy those responsible for the desecration of the sacred tomb. But Isobel, wife of one of the explorers, resembles the beautiful princess, forcing the speechless and tormented monster to defy commands and abduct Isobel to an unknown fate.
The Mummy
1959 · 274 votes
Film6.4KomediIn Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other—or can be made to have seemed to do so.
The Wrong Box
1966 · 70 votes
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Seance on a Wet Afternoon
1964 · 120 votes
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Night of the Eagle
1962 · 111 votes
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The Pumpkin Eater
1964 · 53 votes
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The Man Who Came to Dinner
1972 · 1 votes
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Carry On Again Doctor
1969 · 64 votes
Film5.9KomediBertram Oliphant 'Bo' West wants to clear his unjustly smeared reputation, so he joins the Foreign Legion—with Simpson his manservant in tow. But the fort they get posted to is full of eccentric legionnaires, and there's trouble brewing with the locals too. Unbeknown to Bo, his lady love has followed him in disguise.
Follow That Camel
1967 · 57 votes
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Storm Over the Nile
1955 · 10 votes
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Safari
1956 · 18 votes
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Firepower
1979 · 30 votes
Film7.0DramSavaşAn anachronistic martinet RSM on a remote Colonial African army caught in a local coup d'etat must use his experience to defend those in his care.
Guns at Batasi
1964 · 33 votes
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The Heart of a Man
1959 · 1 votes
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FilmDramAfter 12 years away, Mrs Jordan’s son arrives in Birmingham from Jamaica. Writer Barry Reckord returns to the theme of an interracial relationship which causes conflict within a Jamaican family. Reconstructed from the surviving unedited studio footage by Simon Coward (Research Manager, Kaleidoscope). An episode of the BBC drama series Second City Firsts.
Club Havana
1975
Film7.6KomediSuçNorman Pitkin wants to be a policeman like his father was, but he fails the height test (amongst others). One day he gets out his father's old uniform and "walks the beat". This leads to a level of chaos that only Pitkin could cause
On the Beat
1962 · 34 votes
Film7.0DramTV MovieIn Great Britain a reversal of African apartheid comes into place, and the country is governed by black people with whites as the subservients.
Fable
1965 · 1 votes
Film6.5DramA British-born younger son of an immigrant family from Trinidad finds himself adrift between two cultures.
Pressure
1976 · 13 votes
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Simba
1955 · 17 votes
FilmHarry Steffans and his coloured wife, Annie, find it difficult to rent a flat.
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Dizi5.7DramCrown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the ITV network that ran from 1972, when the Crown Court system replaced Assize courts and Quarter sessions in the legal system of England and Wales, to 1984.
Crown Court
1972 · 6 votes
Dizi5.2DramAn 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.
The Wednesday Play
1964 · 5 votes
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Out of the Unknown
1965 · 8 votes
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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
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Doomwatch
1970 · 6 votes
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The Buccaneers
1956 · 5 votes
Dizi7.2SuçDramMichael Strait is a world-renowned photographer whose assignments lead him into investigating mysterious goings-on amongst the rich and glamorous and intrigue from far-flung places as Iraq, French Indochina, and Algiers.
Man of the World
1962 · 5 votes
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Out of This World
1962 · 4 votes
Dizi8.8DramLong-running anthology program sponsored by Hallmark Cards. Beginning in 1951 and continuing into 2019, the series received 80 Emmy Awards, 24 Christopher Awards, 11 Peabody Awards, 9 Golden Globes, and 4 Humanitas Prizes. Early seasons were a weekly live drama, eventually transitioning to videotaped and then filmed productions broadcast as occasional specials.
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · 8 votes
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A series of plays from Birmingham by new writers.
Dizi5.8KomediThe 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
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The adventures of Richard Crane, cafe owner & part-time smuggler, around the coast of Morocco, aided (and sometimes abetted) by his ex-Foreign Legion sidekick Orlando, waitress Halina, and local cop Colonel Mahmoud.
Crane
1963 · 1 votes
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