
Arthur Lowe
Oyuncu · 1915 – 1982 · Hayfield, Derbyshire, England
Arthur Lowe (22 September 1915 – 15 April 1982) was a BAFTA Award winning English actor. He was best known for playing Captain George Mainwaring in the popular British sitcom Dad's Army from 1968 until 1977.
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Film7.6KomediSuçChalfont Dükü'nün küçük kızı, meteliksiz bir İtalyan şarkıcıyla kaçınca, ailesi onu reddeder. Kadın oğlu Louis'ye soylu atalarını anlatır ama, ailesi her türlü yardımı reddettiği için Louis bir kumaşçı dükkânında çalışmak zorunda kalır. D'Ascoyne ailesinin, annesiyle olan akrabalıklarını inatla kabul etmemesinden incinen Louis, kendisi ile aile unvanı arasındaki her türlü engeli ortadan kaldırarak hakkı olanı elde etmeye karar verir. Önce Henley'deki pis bir hafta sonunda en iğrenç kuzenini katleder, sonra da amatör fotoğrafçı olan bir başka kuzenini havaya uçurur. Din adamı olan bir amca zehirlenir; kadınlara oy hakkı verilmesi için mücadele eden bir hala balonunda vurulup düşürülür; asker bir amca en ünlü seferini anlatırken tuzağa düşürülür; ve denizci bir amca, bir çarpışmanın ardından teknesiyle birlikte denizin dibini boylar. Bu durum Louis'yi Chalfont ünvanının tek varisi yapar,
Film5.0BelgeselA documentary about the portrayal of Adolf Hitler in popular culture.
Hitler: The Comedy Years
2007 · 1 votes
Film6.7KomediKorkuA Shakespearean actor takes poetic revenge on the critics who denied him recognition.
Theatre of Blood
1973 · 257 votes
Film6.8KomediMüzikAn ambitious coffee salesman has a series of improbable and ironic adventures seemingly designed to challenge his naive idealism.
O Lucky Man!
1973 · 121 votes
Film6.0GizemGerilimOn the eve of World War II, zany heiress Amanda Kelly travels by train to Switzerland. While passing through Germany, she meets a sweet elderly lady, who suddenly vanishes. Distraught, she questions her fellow passengers who claim that the woman was never there. Unsure if it's all in her mind or if there's a more sinister plot afoot, Amanda teams up with photographer Robert Condon to discover the truth.
The Lady Vanishes
1979 · 72 votes
Film7.0Dram1968 yılında erkek öğrencilerin doldurduğu bir yatılı okuldayız. Eğitmenlerin katı kurallarıyla okulda yaşam oldukça disiplinli bir şekilde kurulmuştur. Mick ve arkadaşları bu baskıcı düzenin dışına çıktıkları, gizli bir kaçamak oadası yapmışlar ve burada özgürce davranmaktadırlar. Özgürlük alanlarını okulun geneline yaymaya kalktıklarında, okulun baskıcı otoritesiyle yüzleşmek zorunda kalırlar. Fakat ezilen öğrencilerin, hem eğitmenleri hem de okulu ziyarete gelen önemli konukları yakından ilgilendiren bir intikam planları vardır...
Film6.4KomediDramLordlar Kamarası’nın bir üyesi beklenmedik bir anda çok saçma bir şekilde öldükten sonra, mal varlığı oğluna geçer. Ancak ne yazık ki oğlu delidir: Kendisini İsa Mesih sanmaktadır. Ailenin diğer üyeleri babasının ona bıraktığı evi çalmaya çalışır.
The Ruling Class
1972 · 102 votes
Film7.0DramClassic British drama about the residents of a large terrace house in London between Christmas 1938 and September 1939. Percy Boon lives with his mother in a shared rented house with an assortment of characters in central London. Although well intentioned, he becomes mixed up with gangsters and murder. The story focuses on the effects this has on Percy and the other residents.
London Belongs to Me
1948 · 15 votes
Film6.2KomediBilim KurguBritannia 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.
Britannia Hospital
1982 · 74 votes
Film5.9GerilimSuçReformed drug addict Tim Brett (David Hemmings) is vacationing in Italy with his aunt. When she is murdered, he tries to investigate. Soon his whole life spins out of control.
Fragment of Fear
1970 · 39 votes
Film5.9KomediBilim KurguIn the hazy aftermath of World War III, the fallout from a 'nuclear misunderstanding' is producing strange mutations amongst the survivors, and the noble Lord Fortnum finds himself transforming into a bed sitting room.
The Bed Sitting Room
1969 · 55 votes
Film5.2KomediA porn-store owner orders some new stuff from his supplier, but the delivery address gets mixed with the address of the local Barclays Bank. Here, David (the bank's assistant manager) and his new wife are shocked when photos, then films and finally two girls are sent to them in their bank-supplied flat. They and the bank's head cashier then hatch a plan to get rid of the porn—without letting their boss, the local police and David's mother in on what is happening.
No Sex Please - We're British
1973 · 21 votes
Film7.0DramFrank 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.
Film7.5DramA young man becomes infatuated with the exotic Lady Pitts whose much older husband is not pleased.
Daphne Laureola
1978 · 2 votes
Film6.4GizemA reporter tries to prove that his wife is not responsible for the murder of a famous newspaper columnist.
Hour of Decision
1957 · 5 votes
Film5.0KomediAn unscrupulous property developer wants to flatten the street to make way for new buildings. Householder George Roper is happy to take the offered money and run but his wife Mildred and their lodgers join with other residents to take a stand and keep things as they are.
Man About the House
1974 · 21 votes
Film6.1SuçDramA pair of reporters try to discover the link between three unsolved, seemingly isolated murders. The only connection between them is they all took place on the same day in three successive years. The police don't trust their instincts - but as 10th July nears again, a solicitor has started receiving threatening letters...
Final Appointment
1954 · 7 votes
Film3.5KomediAnother stab at Henry Fielding's hilarious novel about the amorous misadventures of a dashing young man in 18th century England. The brilliant 1963 version, starring Albert Finney as the lusty hero, won four Oscars. Joan Collins does a great job as a Wicked Lady style highwaywoman.
The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones
1976 · 6 votes
Film5.4KomediA motley group of soldiers are set loose on swinging England in an initiative test to collect a selection of esoteric items.
You Must Be Joking
1965 · 12 votes
Film6.3GerilimKomediJohn Cleese is hilarious as the descendant of Sherlock Holmes in this modern detective drama of international power politics and intrigue. Unlike his illustrious grandfather however, he only succeeds in bungling every job he organizes. Also stars Arthur Lowe as the "bionic" grandson of Dr. Watson, Stratford Johns as the Commissioner of Police, and Connie Booth as Mrs. Hudson.
The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It
1977 · 17 votes
Film10.0Saville is told by a palm reader he is doomed to become a murderer at some future time. He decides to get the inevitable out of the way before his upcoming society wedding, and goes about attempting the crime on several likely victims.
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
1960 · 1 votes
Film5.0KomediLondon, 1940. Aspiring jazz musician and future comedy legend Terence 'Spike' Milligan reluctantly obeys his call-up and joins the Royal Artillery regiment at Bexhill, where he begins training to take part in the War. But along the way Spike and his friends get involved in many amusing — and some not-so amusing — scrapes.
Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall
1973 · 12 votes
Film8.0DramTV MovieBritish television film about the life of Charles Dickens directed by Ned Sherrin and starring Anthony Hopkins, Jenny Agutter and Arthur Lowe. Hopkins performance as Dickens saw him nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor in 1971.
The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens
1970 · 1 votes
Film5.2KomediFour people go to great lengths to obtain the fortune left in a will by a very wealthy practical joker.
Some Will, Some Won't
1970 · 5 votes
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Dizi5.4Pembe DiziThe residents of Coronation Street are ordinary, working-class people, and the show follows them through regular social and family interactions at home, in the workplace, and in their local pub, the Rovers Return Inn. Britain's longest-running soap.
Coronation Street
1960 · 118 votes
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
Dizi5.2DramA 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
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
Dizi7.0DramITV 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.
ITV Playhouse
1967 · 3 votes
Dizi4.8SuçDramNo Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by Associated-Rediffusion for the ITV network between 16 September 1959 and 22 June 1967. It was the sequel to the series Murder Bag and Crime Sheet, all starring Raymond Francis as Detective Superintendent, later Detective Chief Superintendent Tom Lockhart.
No Hiding Place
1959 · 4 votes
Dizi7.0Anthology series of dramatic works.
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969 · 3 votes
Dizi7.1SuçDramBBC series based on the novels by Georges Simenon which starred Rupert Davies as Inspector Maigret, a French police detective who preferred to watch and listen in order to solve crimes. The series ran from 1960-63 on British television.
Maigret
1960 · 15 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
Dizi7.5KomediSavaş ve PolitikaIntroducing the Walmington-On-Sea home guard. During WW2, in a fictional British seaside town, a ragtag group of Home Guard local defense volunteers prepare for an imminent German invasion.
Dad's Army
1968 · 82 votes
Dizi5.0DramSavaş ve PolitikaChurchill's People is a British anthology series based on A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Winston Churchill's four-volume history of Britain and its former colonies. 26 episodes were produced by the BBC and initially broadcast from 30 December 1974 to 23 June 1975.
Churchill's People
1974 · 2 votes
Dizi7.2DramFollowing the death of the sitting Labour Party Member of Parliament, Bill Brand is selected as Labour candidate for a Lancashire textile constituency.
Bill Brand
1976 · 4 votes
Dizi9.0DramGizemThe Errol Flynn Theatre is a short-lived anthology series presented by Errol Flynn, who would also play the lead in every fourth show. His then-wife Patrice Wymore and son Sean also made appearances. It was shot in England at Bray Studios but was made for the American market.
The Errol Flynn Theatre
1956 · 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
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Armchair 30 is an anthology drama series of short plays produced by Thames Television and broadcast in 1973. The series was a spin-off from Armchair Theatre.
Armchair 30
1973
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Pardon The Expression! is an ITV sitcom made by Granada Television, that was first broadcast from Wednesday 2 June 1965 to Monday 27 June 1966. The sitcom was one of only four spin-offs from the highly popular soap opera Coronation Street. Pardon the Expression itself had a spin-off: Turn out the Lights broadcast in 1967. There wasn't to be another spin-off until the 1980s with The Brothers McGregor, which reused two characters who appeared in a single episode. Leonard Swindley was the central character. Formerly the manager of the fashion retail store "Gamma Garments" in Coronation Street, in this series he is the deputy manager of the department store Dobson and Hawks. His boss in the series was Ernest Parbold played by Paul Dawkins who was replaced by Wally Hunt played by Robert Dorning in series 2. Other regulars were Betty Driver as canteen lady, Mrs Edgeley and Joy Stewart as Miss Sinclair, the boss's secretary.
Pardon the Expression
1965 · 3 votes
Dizi6.3KomediBless Me Father is a British sitcom starring Arthur Lowe, Daniel Abineri, Gabrielle Daye, Patrick McAlinney, David Ryall, Derek Francis and Sheila Keith. It was aired on ITV from 1978 until 1981 and described the adventures of an Irish Catholic priest, Father Charles Duddleswell and his young curate in the fictional parish of St. Jude's in suburban London. 21 episodes, written by Peter De Rosa, were aired. De Rosa wrote the books on which the series was based using the pseudonym of Neil Boyd which was also the name of the young curate character; Boyd also served as the narrator in the series of novels upon which the series was based. It was made for the ITV network by London Weekend Television. The series was set in 1950 and 1951 and marked a departure from the middle class 'bank manager' roles associated with Lowe such as that in Dad's Army. The other regular characters included Mrs Pring, the housekeeper, the hard-drinking Dr Daley, the non-religious neighbour Billy Buzzle, and abbess Reverend Mother Stephen.
Bless Me Father
1978 · 6 votes
Dizi8.5DramShades of Greene is a British television series based on short stories written by the author Graham Greene. The series began in 1975, with each hour-long episode featuring a dramatisation of one of Greene's stories, many of which dealt with issues such as guilt and the Catholic faith, as well as looking at life in general. Actors to have appeared in the series include John Gielgud, Leo McKern, Virginia McKenna, Paul Scofield, and Roy Kinnear. The series began on 9 September 1975 and ran for two seasons.
Shades of Greene
1975 · 2 votes
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Ben Travers' Farces is a British comedy television series which originally aired on BBC 1. It ran for a single series of seven episodes between 19 September and 31 October 1970. Each was a stand-alone adaptation of a farce by Ben Travers. The first six episodes were adaptations of Aldwych Farces beginning with Rookery Nook while the seventh She Follows Me About was based on his wartime play of the same title.