Acting

Richard Braine

Born February 15, 1956 · Portishead, Somerset, England, UK (age 70)

Richard Braine (born 1956) is a British television actor, playwright, and theatre director. One of his most recognisable roles was that of Augustus "Gussie" Fink-Nottle in the ITV television third and fourth series Jeeves and Wooster based on the P.G. Wodehouse novels. In an earlier episode of the first series, he played the character Rupert Steggles. In Germany, Braine is known for appearing in …

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Bridget Jones: The Edge of ReasonBridget Jones: The Edge of Reason · 2004
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
6.22004
MovieComedyRomance
Bridget Jones is still dating her new love, barrister Mark Darcy, for a perfect six weeks. However, while on assignment in Thailand with her disreputable ex, Daniel Cleaver, claiming to be reformed, Bridget questions if she has everything she's ever dreamed of having.
Calendar GirlsCalendar Girls · 2003
Calendar Girls
6.52003
MovieDramaComedy
Members of a Yorkshire branch of the Women's Institute cause controversy when they pose nude for a charity calendar.
Stiff Upper LipsStiff Upper Lips · 1998
Stiff Upper Lips
5.61998
MovieComedy
Stiff Upper Lips is a broad parody of British period films, especially the lavish Merchant-Ivory productions of the 'eighties and early 'nineties. Although it specifically targets A Room with a View, Chariots of Fire, Maurice, A Passage to India, and many other films, in a more general way Stiff Upper Lips satirises popular perceptions of certain Edwardian traits: propriety, sexual repression, xenophobia, and class snobbery.
Gas and CandlesGas and Candles · 1991
Gas and Candles
1991
MovieComedyTV Movie
Black comedy play about two pensioners struggling to manage on an old-age pension and living in a high-rise block of flats.
Father BrownFather Brown · 2013
Father Brown
7.62013
SeriesDramaCrime
Father Brown is based on G. K. Chesterton's detective stories about a Catholic priest who doubles as an amateur detective in order to try and solve mysteries.
MinderMinder · 1979
Minder
7.11979
SeriesComedyDrama
Roguish comedy drama following the misadventures of small-time crook Arthur Daley.
SpooksSpooks · 2002
Spooks
7.72002
SeriesDramaAction & Adventure
Tense drama series about the different challenges faced by the British Security Service as they work against the clock to safeguard the nation. The title is a popular colloquialism for spies, and the series follows the work of a group of MI5 officers based at the service's Thames House headquarters, in a highly secure suite of offices known as The Grid.
Foyle's WarFoyle's War · 2002
Foyle's War
7.92002
SeriesMysteryDrama
As WW2 rages around the world, DCS Foyle fights his own war on the home-front as he investigates crimes on the south coast of England. Foyle's War opens in southern England in the year 1940. Later series sees the retired detective working as an MI5 agent operating in the aftermath of the war.

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The Brittas EmpireThe Brittas Empire · 1991
The Brittas Empire
6.61991
SeriesComedy
The Brittas Empire is a British sitcom created and originally written by Andrew Norriss and Richard Fegen. Chris Barrie plays Gordon Brittas, the well-meaning but incompetent manager of Whitbury New Town Leisure Centre. The show ran for seven series and 53 episodes — including two Christmas specials — from 1991 to 1997 on BBC1. Norriss and Fegen wrote the first five series, after which they left the show. The Brittas Empire enjoyed a long and successful run throughout the 1990s, and gained itself large mainstream audiences. In 2004 the show came 47th on the BBC's Britain's Best Sitcom poll, and all series have been released on DVD. The creators Andrew Norriss and Richard Fegen often combine farce with either surreal or dramatic elements in episodes. For example in the first series, the leisure centre prepares for a royal visit, only for the doors to seal, the boiler room to flood and a visitor to become electrocuted. Unlike the traditional sitcom, deaths were quite common in The Brittas Empire.

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Keen EddieKeen Eddie · 2003
Keen Eddie
8.02003
SeriesDramaComedy
Keen Eddie is an American action, comedy-drama television series that aired in 2003 on the Fox Network. The series follows a brash NYPD detective who goes to London when one of his cases goes sour and remains to work with New Scotland Yard. The basic premise of the show bears a close resemblance to the popular 1980s British series Dempsey & Makepeace, the only notable difference being that the female partner has been replaced by a female housemate. Stylistically, the series derived inspiration from British feature films by Guy Ritchie, such as Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch. The soundtrack and incidental music for the first episode was provided by British techno duo Orbital. Daniel Ash of Love and Rockets scored the rest of the series.