
Barry Foster
Oyuncu · 1927 – 2002 · Beeston, Nottinghamshire, England, UK
Barry Foster was an English actor who had an extensive career in film, radio, stage and television over almost 50 years. He was best known for playing Kaiser Wilhelm II in Fall of Eagles (1974), Order Wingate (1976), the title character in the British crime series Van der Valk (1972–1992) and Bob Rusk in Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy (1972).
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Film5.8AksiyonGerilimEski bir savaş gazisi ve İngiliz istihbaratının kıdemli ajanı Frank Jones, hükümetin önemli bir biriminde dilbilimci olarak çalışan oğlu Bob'un şüpheli ölümünü araştırmaktadır.
Film6.8AksiyonMaceraAfrika’daki bir ülkede, bir diktatör iktidarı ele geçirir ve iyi kalpli başkanı zindana atar. Ticari çıkarlarını korumak amacıyla, uluslararası bir şirket yaşlı ama sağlam paralı askerlerden oluşan bir ekibi gönderir. Görevleri, eski başkanı yeniden göreve getirmektir. Tam başkanı kurtarmışlarken, şirket onlara ihanet eder ve arkalarından vurur. Elbette bu durum paralı askerleri oldukça sinirlendirir — ve artık intikam zamanı gelmiştir.
Film6.8SavaşTarihİkinci dünya savaşında 10 Temmuz - 31 Ekim 1940 arasında gerçekleşen bu kahramanca dönemde almanlar İngiltere'yi işgal planlarını uygulamaya koyarlar. Bu işgal planının ilk aşaması da ingiliz hava savunmasının ve radarlarının yok edilmesidir. 1 aylık bir süre zarfinda ingiliz hava sahasında cok çetin savaşlar olur. Sayılar cok daha az olmasına rağmen ingiliz pilotları gecit vermez ve almanlar işgalden vazgecerler.
Film7.6DramRomantikMaurice, muhafazakar ve kendisinden çok şey bekleyen ailesinin üniversite tahsili için Cambridge'e gönderdiği bir İngiliz gencidir. İki sınıf üstte bir talebenin açık ve beklenmedik teklifi kafasını karıştırır. Hayatında gizli bir sayfa açılan Maurice, Clive'dan etkilenmiştir. Ancak 1. Dünya Savaşı öncesi yasal olarak yasak olan eşcinsellik İngiltere'de yaşanamaz durumdadır. Arkadaşlarının 6 ay hapis cezası alması ikiliyi durduramaz....
Maurice
1987 · 635 votes
Film7.1SuçGerilimCinnet, Alfred Hitchcock'un yıllar sonra sevgili kentine, yani Londra'ya dönüşünü simgeler. Bu dönüş ustaya ilham vermiş gibidir: Kentin son derece başarılı bir fon olarak kullanıldığı, herşeyiyle tipik İngiliz bir seri cinayetler öyküsü izleriz. Film, aynı zamanda Hitchcock filmlerinde görülegelmiş en kanlı cinayet sahnelerinden bazılarını da içerir. Ve bu nedenle kimi eleştirmenlerden "zevksiz" damgasını yer. Sanki biraz da bunu dengelemek için, katilin peşindeki polis komiseriyle eşinin evlerindeki yemek tartışmaları, ustanın mutfak kültürüne olan büyük ilgisinin bir yansıması ve ayrıca başlıbaşına bir mizah unsurudur. Ve film star oyuncuya sahip değilse de tipik İngiliz, birinci sınıf bir takım oyunculuğu içerir.
Film5.0KomediSuçFransız özel güvenlik şubesi, büyük bir trenin yağmalanmasından sonra, hükümet ile işbirliği yaparak, olayları yeniden gözden geçirmek, güven tazelemek ve yeni suçların önüne geçmek için bir araştırma başlatır. Bu iş için Müfettiş Clouseau (Alan Arkin)’yu tutan yetkililer, müfettişin aradıklarından fazla özelliği olduğunu hesaba katmazlar.
Film6.4DramTarihIn the early years of the World War II, the Royal Navy is fighting a desperate battle to keep the Atlantic convoy routes open to supply the British Isles, facing the great danger posed by the many German warships, such as the Admiral Graf Spee, which are scouring the ocean for cargo ships to sink.
The Battle of the River Plate
1956 · 74 votes
Film7.1RomantikTarihFilm 1.Dünya Savaşı sırasında İrlanda'nın Dingle yarımadasında ıssız bir köyde geçer. Köyün İrlanda milliyetçisi yerlileri, yakınlarda üs kurmuş İngiliz askerlerini dışlamışlardır. Öğretmen Charles Shaughnessy (Robert Mitchum), köyün tek pub'ının sahibi Thomas Ryan (Leo McKern)'ın kızı Rosy (Sarah Miles) ile henüz evlenmiştir. Başlarda Shaughnessy'nin kendisini bu sıkıcı yerden kurtarabileceğini ve hayatına renk katabileceğini uman Rosy, bir süre sonra hayal kırıklığına uğrar ve cinsel çekiciliği de olmayan kocasından soğur. Bu sırada İngiliz üssünün komutasını devralan savaş gazisi Binbaşı Randolph Doryan (Christopher Jones)'a aşık olur.
Film6.0DramRomantikAnne is investigating the life of her grand-aunt Olivia, whose destiny has always been shrouded with scandal. As Anne delves into the history of her grand-aunt, she is led to reconsider her own life.
Heat and Dust
1983 · 46 votes
Film7.1AileAnimasyonJailed for his reckless driving, rambunctious Mr. Toad has to escape from prison when his beloved Toad Hall comes under threat from the wily weasels, who plan to build a dog food factory on the very meadow sold to them by Toad himself.
The Wind in the Willows
1995 · 40 votes
Film6.6SuçGerilimIn this fictionalised account of the Great Train Robbery, career criminal Paul Clifton plans an audacious crime: the robbery of a mail train carrying millions in cash.
Robbery
1967 · 55 votes
Film7.7TV MovieDramThe story of the Russian-born, Wisconsin-raised woman who rose to become Israel's prime minister in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
A Woman Called Golda
1982 · 11 votes
Film6.8GerilimKorkuMartin Durnley; onu çocuklaştıran bir anneye, kendisine tepkili bir üvey babaya ve Down sendromlu olduğu için bakımevinde yatan bir erkek kardeşe sahip genç bir adamdır. Bu durumla başa çıkabilmek için "Georgie" adını verdiği çocuksu bir alternatif kişilik yaratıp ona sığınır. Bir mağazadaki hırsızlık girişimi sırasında yakalandıktan sonra, kendisine anlayış gösteren kadın bir müşteriyle arkadaş olur; ancak bu arkadaşlık kısa süre içinde bir saplantıya dönüşür.
Twisted Nerve
1968 · 60 votes
Film7.3SavaşWhile sailing lawfully up the Yangste in 1949, the British warship Amethyst found its return to the open sea blocked by Communist Chinese shore batteries that unexpectedly opened fire. In charge, Lietenant Commander Kerans was not however prepared for his crew and his ship to remain as a hostage for the Chinese to use as an international pawn.
Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst
1957 · 11 votes
Film6.4KomediAfter a quayside mix-up with the Italian family of his fiancée, Able Seaman Knocker White finds himself literally left holding the baby. Unable to return it before his ship sails he enlists the help of best mate Puncher Roberts to smuggle the child aboard. But babies are surprisingly demanding and gradually the whole crew is drawn into helping keep it fed and washed - and undiscovered. Even so, the officers above deck start to puzzle over the increasingly strange happenings on board.
The Baby and the Battleship
1956 · 9 votes
Film7.0GerilimTV MovieRobert Wagner plays an American who owns a Lisbon nightclub and Teri Garr is a slightly dippy chanteuse who has stumbled across a Nazi plot to kidnap the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, living at the time (1942) in Portugal.
To Catch a King
1984 · 2 votes
Film6.9DramSavaşA British Corporal in France finds himself responsible for the lives of his men when their officer is killed. He has to get them back to Britain somehow. Meanwhile, British civilians are being dragged into the war with Operation Dynamo, the scheme to get the French and British forces back from the Dunkirk beaches. Some come forward to help, others were less willing.
Dunkirk
1958 · 77 votes
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Film7.0MaceraIn 1727, an Arab colt is born with the signs of the wheat ear and the white spot on his heel: evil and good. And thus begins the life of Sham. He is a gift to the King of France, through a series of adventures with his faithful stable boy, Agba, he becomes the Godolphin Arabian, the founder of one of the greatest thoroughbred racing lines of all time.
King of the Wind
1990 · 6 votes
Film6.3AksiyonSuçAn escaped prisoner is trying to clear his name.
The Siege of Pinchgut
1959 · 13 votes
Film6.5DramSavaşA small British army team is sent deep behind enemy lines to destroy a German petrol dump as part of the preparation for a major attack in the North African campaign. Sea of Sand was distributed in the US in a shortened version, Desert Patrol.
Sea of Sand
1958 · 27 votes
Film7.1SavaşDramDuring World War I, Army Private Arthur James Hamp is accused of desertion during battle. The officer assigned to defend him at his court-martial, Captain Hargreaves, finds out there is more to the case than meets the eye.
King and Country
1964 · 66 votes
Film6.7AksiyonSuçWhen one of Regan's snouts complains that his girlfriend's recent suicide was murder, the flying squad detective feels compelled to investigate. He uncovers a conspiracy that reaches the heart of the government, and finds himself fitted up, suspended and under the scrutiny of Special Branch.
Sweeney!
1977 · 28 votes
Film5.4AksiyonNew York Havaalanı: Kanlı bir katliamın ardından ölümcül bir sessizlik hâkim. Bu korkunç cinayetin arkasındakileri avlamak için özel ajan Elliot Cromwell, New York'tan bir polis memuru ve Interpol'den bir dedektifle güçlerini birleştirir.
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Dizi7.1DramSeries of single made-for-television dramas.
Screen Two
1985 · 7 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
Dizi7.0DramA one-hour anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas produced by the BBC.
Playhouse
1974 · 1 votes
Dizi7.2BelgeselOmnibus was an arts-based BBC television documentary series, broadcast mainly on BBC1 in the United Kingdom. The programme was the successor to the long-running arts-based series 'Monitor'. It ran from 1967 until 2003, usually being transmitted on Sunday evenings. During its 35-year history, the programme won 12 Bafta awards. Among the series' best remembered documentaries are Cracked Actor, a profile of David Bowie, and Rene Magritte, a graduate film by David Wheatley, 'Madonna: Behind the American dream', a film produced by Nadia Hagger, and a profile of the British film director Ridley Scott. For a season in 1982, the series was in a magazine format presented by Barry Norman. The series was replaced by 'Imagine' hosted by Alan Yentob.
Omnibus
1967 · 9 votes
Dizi7.0DramJim Bergerac is a detective sergeant in The Foreigners Office who likes to do things his own way. While dealing with his own personal demons Bergerac has a knack of finding trouble, and sometimes causing it.
Bergerac
1981 · 25 votes
Dizi4.2DramAn 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.
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965 · 8 votes
Dizi7.0Anthology series of dramatic works.
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969 · 3 votes
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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.
Thursday Theatre
1964
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
Dizi7.1SuçDramBBC 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
Dizi6.2DramVan der Valk is a British television series that was produced by Thames Television for the ITV network. It starred Barry Foster in the title role as Dutch detective Commissaris "Piet" van der Valk. Based on the characters and atmosphere of the novels of Nicolas Freeling, the first series was shown in 1972.
Van der Valk
1972 · 10 votes
Dizi8.2SuçDramPublic Eye is a British television drama broadcast from 1965 to 1975 on ITV1. Produced by ABC Television for three series, and Thames Television for a further four, the programme follows the investigations and cases handled by the unglamourous enquiry agent Frank Marker.
Public Eye
1965 · 6 votes
Dizi7.3DramThe Troubleshooters is a British television series made by the BBC between 1965 and 1972, created by John Elliot. During its run, the series made the transition from black and white to colour transmissions. The series was based around an international oil company – the "Mogul" of the title. The first series was mostly concerned with the internal politics within the Mogul organisation, with episodes revolving around industrial espionage, internal fraud and negligence almost leading to an accident on a North Sea oil rig.
The Troubleshooters
1965 · 3 votes
Dizi10.0Aksiyon ve MaceraDramPulled from actual case histories and utilizing newsreel and documented narratives, the activities of spies from various countries are depicted as far back as the American Revolution and as recent as the Cold War.
Espionage
1963 · 1 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
Dizi6.4DramBilim Kurgu ve FantastikDoomwatch is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC, which ran on BBC 1 between 1970 and 1972. The series was set in the then present-day, and dealt with a scientific government agency led by Doctor Spencer Quist, responsible for investigating and combating various ecological and technological dangers. The series was followed by a film adaptation produced by Tigon British Film Productions and released in 1972, and a revival TV film was broadcast on Channel 5 in 1999.
Doomwatch
1970 · 6 votes
Dizi6.9SuçDramCentred on the cases of P. D. James' gentleman detective Adam Dalgliesh. In addition to his career as a policeman, Dalgliesh is also a published poet and an intensely private man.
Dalgliesh
1983 · 7 votes
Dizi5.1Aksiyon ve MaceraSir Francis Drake was a British adventure television series starring Terence Morgan as Sir Francis Drake, commander of the sailing ship the Golden Hind. As well as battles at sea, sword fights, the series also deals with intrigue at Elizabeth's court, often caused by Spaniard, Mendoza.
Sir Francis Drake
1961 · 7 votes
Dizi6.7GizemDramA 1990 horror anthology series, with host Anthony Perkins presenting and screening tales based on Patricia Highsmith's short stories that display a sinister atmosphere, and delve into the darkest depths of human nature.
Chillers
1990 · 6 votes
Dizi7.7DramGizemCalled out of retirement to settle the affairs of a friend, Smiley finds his old organization, the Circus, so overwhelmed by political considerations that it doesn't want to know what happened. He begins to follow up the clues of his friends past days, discovering that the clues lead to a high person in the Russian Secret service, and a secret important enough to kill for.
Smiley's People
1982 · 56 votes
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A series of anthologies highlighting the initial projects of directors venturing into television drama filmmaking.
Premiere
1977 · 1 votes
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Anthology of plays written by new writers, set in a function room above a public house.
Function Room
1985
Dizi9.0Roger Roger is a BBC television comedy-drama written by John Sullivan. The series was about a mini-cab firm called Cresta Cabs. The pilot aired in 1996 and there were three subsequent series on BBC1 in 1998, 1999 and 2003.
Roger Roger
1998 · 1 votes