Fulton Mackay
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1922-08-12
Locus Natus: Paisley, Scotland, UK
Et ut:
Local Hero
An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things don't go as expected.
release : 1983.02.17popularis : 15.83
Britannia Hospital
Britannia Hospital, an esteemed English institution, is marking its gala anniversary with a visit by the Queen Mother herself. But when investigative...
release : 1982.05.27popularis : 6.024
Gumshoe
A would be private eye gets mixed up in a smuggling case.
release : 1971.12.01popularis : 3.601
Nothing But the Night
When various trustees of the Van Traylen Orphanage begin dying in close order, it's at first written off as a coincidence. But, when a school bus...
release : 1973.02.16popularis : 3.45
Defence of the Realm
A reporter named Mullen 'stumbles' onto a story linking a prominent Member of Parliament to a KGB agent and a near-nuclear disaster involving a...
release : 1986.05.09popularis : 4.386
A Sense of Freedom
The true story of Jimmy Boyle, who was reputed to be Scotland's most violent man.
release : 1979.10.19popularis : 1.86
I'm A Stranger
When his grandfather dies, George Westcott (Patrick Doonan) returns home from India to collect his inheritance -- only to find that the will has...
release : 1952.07.01popularis : 2.887
Porridge
Times are hard for habitual guest of Her Majesty Norman Stanley Fletcher. The new prison officer, Beale, makes MacKay look soft and what's more, an...
release : 1979.08.12popularis : 9.239
Hitler: The Comedy Years
A documentary about the portrayal of Adolf Hitler in popular culture.
release : 2007.05.10popularis : 2.095
The South Bank Show: 'Local Hero'
A documentary about the making of Bill Forsyth's 1983 film "Local Hero."
release : 1983.02.27popularis : 1.25
If You Go Down in the Woods Today
A Boy Scout troupe led by their scoutmaster (Sykes) is on a field trip to a seemingly-peaceful English woodland. However, the woods are actually...
release : 1981.04.29popularis : 4.917
Sleepwalker
Saxon Logan's extraordinary 49 minute featurette pitches four people into a class war situation with a vicious sting in the tale.
release : 1984.07.05popularis : 1.954
Fraggle Rock - Live By the Rule of the Rock
Catch a Tail by the Tiger: Gobo has not received his usual postcard from his Uncle Traveling Matt. He eventually comes to realize that he must...
release : 2005.01.01popularis : 2.934
Night Train to Murder
When Eric's niece Kathy becomes one of the heirs to a considerable fortune, her life (and those of the other heirs) is placed in jeopardy by the...
release : 1984.01.01popularis : 5.792
Brand
Brand's a bleak and desolate play that challenges the notion of a stern and stoic faith in the will of God. The title character is a pastor who...
release : 1959.08.11popularis : 2.678
Enchanted Isles
A trip through the Highlands and Islands of Scotland following in the footsteps of Bonnie Prince Charlie.
release : 1957.01.01popularis : 0.374
The Brave Don't Cry
The Brave Don't Cry aspires to the "feel" of a documentary, right down to the deliberate absence of background music. A mine in Scotland falls victim...
release : 1952.08.01popularis : 1.202
A Prize of Arms
A criminal gang sets out to pull off the heist of a large army payroll.
release : 1962.12.11popularis : 3.629
Comedy Classics: Porridge
An homage to the prison comedy series Porridge, created by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais. This documentary examines how Ronnie Barker’s...
release : 2022.12.16popularis : 2.038
Porridge: The Desperate Hours
Fletcher and Godber are in trouble for brewing liquor in the lead-up to Christmas, but are caught up in a hostage situation in the Governor's office.
release : 1976.12.24popularis : 1.445
Porridge: No Way Out
Fletcher discovers that his fellow inmates are planning to escape.
release : 1975.12.24popularis : 1.407
Dreamchild
Eighty-year-old Alice Hargreaves is about to visit Columbia University to attend a reception in honor of author Lewis Carroll. As a child, Alice had...
release : 1985.10.04popularis : 4.303
Going Gently
Play about two elderly cancer patients suffering in hospital.
release : 1981.06.05popularis : 1.697
Water
A British diplomat to a West Indian island nation finds his idyllic existence thrown into chaos when a large American drilling company finds a huge...
release : 1985.01.11popularis : 5.409
Doctor Who and the Silurians
Investigating mysterious power failures and a death at an underground research centre, The Doctor discovers a colony of Silurians - prehistoric,...
release : 1970.03.14popularis : 1.601
Vendetta for the Saint
Simon Templar is on holiday in Naples when a small uproar on a lunch table draws his attention. An English tourist attempts to greet an Italian...
release : 1969.01.05popularis : 3.898
The Life and Times of David Lloyd George
The Life and Times of David Lloyd George charts the life of the controversial Liberal politician with Philip Madoc in the titular role. The title...
release : 1981.03.04popularis : 2.603
A Wreath of Roses
Period drama based on a novel. While waiting for a train, a lonely woman is witness to a suicide on the tracks. A sympathetic man strikes up a...
release : 1987.09.06popularis : 0.505
Ill Fares the Land
The story of the last two years the inhabitants of the islands of St Kilda (far off the west coast of Scotland) spent there, before being evacuated...
release : 1983.11.01popularis : 1.242
Orkney
Three stories reflecting life in the Orkney Islands, two set in the past, and one in the present.
release : 1971.05.13popularis : 2.752
Laxdale Hall
A starchy parliamentary delegation is sent to a remote Scottish Highlands community, where the residents are protesting the poor condition of their...
release : 1953.04.01popularis : 1.369
To Catch a King
Robert 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...
release : 1984.01.20popularis : 3.86
Three's One
Are Maggie and Tony using each other as a means of communicating with Dr Leafer? Or are they using Dr Leafer as a means of communicating with each...
release : 1973.06.04popularis : 1.854
Clay, Smeddum and Greenden
TV dramatisation of the trilogy by Lewis Grassic Gibbon.
release : 1976.02.24popularis : 2.406
Willie Rough
In the dark days of 1914 Willie Rough set out to find work in Greenock. He becomes a shipbuilding shop steward and soon finds himself involved in a...
release : 1976.03.09popularis : 0.948
Shapes In The Water
Highland boat-building, showing intermediate processes of clinker- and carvel built boats, as well as those involved in ferroconcrete and steel...
release : 1974.01.01popularis : 0.248