Acting
Graham Ashley
Born April 26, 1927 · Northampton, England, UK
Died October 30, 1979 · aged 52
Graham Ashley was selected to act as one of the Rebel pilots in Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope, originally titled Star Wars. He portrayed Gold Five, who was called Davish "Pops" Krail in the Expanded Universe.
Known For
Star Wars · 1977Star Wars
★ 8.21977
MovieAdventureAction
Princess Leia is captured and held hostage by the evil Imperial forces in their effort to take over the galactic Empire. Venturesome Luke Skywalker and dashing captain Han Solo team together with the loveable robot duo R2-D2 and C-3PO to rescue the beautiful princess and restore peace and justice in the Empire.
Our Cissy · 1974Our Cissy
★ 8.01974
MovieDrama
An old man travels to London from the North Country, accompanied by his son, in order to find the truth about his daughter's suicide.
Adventures of a Private Eye · 1977Adventures of a Private Eye
★ 4.31977
MovieComedy
While a private detective is away on vacation, his not particularly bright assistant takes it upon himself to "solve" a case that comes in. Complications ensue.
The Black Panther · 1977The Black Panther
★ 5.81977
MovieCrimeDrama
A gung-ho ex-military man pursues a secret life of crime, culminating in the kidnapping of a teenage heiress.
Hennessy · 1975Hennessy
★ 5.11975
MovieThrillerDrama
Former Irish Republican Army member Niall Hennessy lives in Belfast, Ireland, with his wife and daughter amid the ongoing Irish-British conflict. Though he still knows people in the IRA, including fugitive leader Tobin, Niall has given up his violent ways. One day his family is caught in a chaotic street shootout and killed by British forces. Overwhelmed with rage and hunted by a Scotland Yard inspector, Niall heads to London to exact his deadly revenge.
Adventures of a Plumber's Mate · 1978Adventures of a Plumber's Mate
★ 4.21978
MovieComedy
Randy plumber Sid South enjoys a profession which offers him ample opportunity to bed sexy housewives.
Eskimo Nell · 1975Eskimo Nell
★ 4.01975
MovieComedy
Three young men, a scriptwriter, a producer and a director are called in by Benny U Murdoch, an exotic movie producer. He wants to make a new erotic movie starring a big woman - the "Eskimo Nell" of the title. However problems start from the beginning, the scriptwriter is a virgin, a lover of penguins and hasn't a clue on how to write an erotic movie, each of the three main backers want a different type of movie - a western, an erotic and a kung-fu movie with different people in the main part. However problems really start for the three when Benny runs off with all the money and they have to make three different versions of the same film and try not to let the backers and stars know what has happened. And this is made harder when there is a clean-up-filth society breathing down their necks....
Adventures of a Taxi Driver · 1976Adventures of a Taxi Driver
★ 5.21976
MovieComedy
Joe North is a London taxi driver who manages to get himself into any number of sexual situations with various women.
Movies
Star Wars · 1977Star Wars
★ 8.21977
MovieAdventureAction
Princess Leia is captured and held hostage by the evil Imperial forces in their effort to take over the galactic Empire. Venturesome Luke Skywalker and dashing captain Han Solo team together with the loveable robot duo R2-D2 and C-3PO to rescue the beautiful princess and restore peace and justice in the Empire.
Our Cissy · 1974Our Cissy
★ 8.01974
MovieDrama
An old man travels to London from the North Country, accompanied by his son, in order to find the truth about his daughter's suicide.
Adventures of a Private Eye · 1977Adventures of a Private Eye
★ 4.31977
MovieComedy
While a private detective is away on vacation, his not particularly bright assistant takes it upon himself to "solve" a case that comes in. Complications ensue.
The Black Panther · 1977The Black Panther
★ 5.81977
MovieCrimeDrama
A gung-ho ex-military man pursues a secret life of crime, culminating in the kidnapping of a teenage heiress.
Hennessy · 1975Hennessy
★ 5.11975
MovieThrillerDrama
Former Irish Republican Army member Niall Hennessy lives in Belfast, Ireland, with his wife and daughter amid the ongoing Irish-British conflict. Though he still knows people in the IRA, including fugitive leader Tobin, Niall has given up his violent ways. One day his family is caught in a chaotic street shootout and killed by British forces. Overwhelmed with rage and hunted by a Scotland Yard inspector, Niall heads to London to exact his deadly revenge.
Adventures of a Plumber's Mate · 1978Adventures of a Plumber's Mate
★ 4.21978
MovieComedy
Randy plumber Sid South enjoys a profession which offers him ample opportunity to bed sexy housewives.
Eskimo Nell · 1975Eskimo Nell
★ 4.01975
MovieComedy
Three young men, a scriptwriter, a producer and a director are called in by Benny U Murdoch, an exotic movie producer. He wants to make a new erotic movie starring a big woman - the "Eskimo Nell" of the title. However problems start from the beginning, the scriptwriter is a virgin, a lover of penguins and hasn't a clue on how to write an erotic movie, each of the three main backers want a different type of movie - a western, an erotic and a kung-fu movie with different people in the main part. However problems really start for the three when Benny runs off with all the money and they have to make three different versions of the same film and try not to let the backers and stars know what has happened. And this is made harder when there is a clean-up-filth society breathing down their necks....
Adventures of a Taxi Driver · 1976Adventures of a Taxi Driver
★ 5.21976
MovieComedy
Joe North is a London taxi driver who manages to get himself into any number of sexual situations with various women.
It Could Happen to You · 1976It Could Happen to You
★ 4.01976
MovieDocumentary
An educational film about the perils associated with sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). The drama is interspersed with scenes of a medical adviser directly addressing the camera giving advice and information about STDs.
Big Zapper · 1973Big Zapper
★ 4.01973
MovieActionComedy
A female private detective, Harriet Zapper, is hired by a rich old man to find his missing children, and becomes involved in counterfeiting and murder.
A Photograph · 1977A Photograph
1977
MovieDramaHorror
A man's life is turned upside down when he receives a mysterious photograph in the post.
Man Accused · 1959Man Accused
★ 7.01959
MovieCrimeDrama
Soon after celebrating his engagement to aristocratic heiress Kathy Riddle (Carol Marsh), engineer Bob Jensen (Ronald Howard) is accused by an insurance investigator of being a notorious -- and murderous -- jewel thief. Can Bob restore his reputation and regain Kathy's trust? Desperate to prove his innocence, Bob engineers a daring jailbreak and pursues the real culprit. Montgomery Tully directs this crime drama.
Doctor Who: The Underwater Menace · 1967Doctor Who: The Underwater Menace
★ 5.01967
MovieScience FictionAdventure
The TARDIS arrives on an extinct volcanic island. Before long, the travellers are captured and taken into the depths of the Earth, where they find a hidden civilisation — the lost city of Atlantis.
Track the Man Down · 1955Track the Man Down
★ 6.11955
MovieCrimeDrama
A newspaper reporter finds himself drawn into the aftermath of a racetrack robbery.
Alfie Darling · 1975Alfie Darling
★ 4.51975
MovieDrama
Alfie meets his romantic match when the modern-day Casanova falls in love with a career woman. Alfie soon realises that Abby, a magazine editor, is just as romantically ruthless as he is.
The Deadly Females · 1976The Deadly Females
★ 3.31976
MovieAction
Toothsome Tracy Reed heads the cast of Deadly Females. The ladies in question are female assassins, specializing in knocking off lascivious males. Like the proverbial black widow spider, the girls lure their victims with promises of sexual favours, then strike when said victims are exhausted. Naturally, this requires plenty of exposed female flesh.
The Best of the Adventures · 1981The Best of the Adventures
★ 6.31981
MovieComedy
A feature-length compilation of the funniest and naughtiest bits from the legendary 1970s’ Adventures of series!
The Tell-Tale Heart · 1960The Tell-Tale Heart
★ 6.11960
MovieHorrorThriller
A man's sanity is a point of contention as he confesses to murdering an elderly man, driven by the victim's pale blue 'vulture eye', culminating in guilt-induced auditory hallucinations of the victim's beating heart.
The Swordsman · 1974The Swordsman
★ 8.01974
MovieAction
When Harriet Zapper is hired to find the identity of Karel Duval, and the true heir to the Duval family fortune, a bloody trail of murders leads the Big Zapper from London to the South of France and into a hornet's nest of betrayal and death.
The Fast Kill · 1972The Fast Kill
★ 10.01972
MovieCrime
A successful robbery goes sour when six criminals attempt to divvy up the fruits of their labour.
Change Partners · 1965Change Partners
1965
MovieCrimeDrama
An adulterous couple turn to murder, only to discover that a petty crook and blackmailer has already had his eye upon them.
TV Shows
Doctor Who · 1963Doctor Who
★ 7.91963
SeriesDrama
The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling spaceship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Along with a succession of companions, The Doctor faces a variety of foes while working to save civilizations, help ordinary people, and right many wrongs.
Play for Today · 1970Play for Today
★ 6.61970
SeriesDrama
Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.
The Avengers · 1961The Avengers
★ 7.81961
SeriesCrime
A 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).
Grange Hill · 1978Grange Hill
★ 6.71978
SeriesDrama
Children's drama series following the lives of students and teachers at Grange Hill comprehensive school.
Danger Man · 1960Danger Man
★ 7.41960
SeriesDrama
Danger Man is a British television series which was broadcast between 1960 and 1962, and again between 1964 and 1968. The series featured Patrick McGoohan as secret agent John Drake. Ralph Smart created the programme and wrote many of the scripts. Danger Man was financed by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment.
The Protectors · 1972The Protectors
★ 6.11972
SeriesCrime
The Protectors is a British television series, an action thriller created by Gerry Anderson. It was Anderson's second TV series using live actors as opposed to electronic marionettes, and also his second to be firmly set in contemporary times. It was also the only Gerry Anderson produced television series that was not of the fantasy or science fiction genres. It was produced by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment production company. Despite not featuring marionettes or any real science fiction elements, The Protectors became one of Anderson's most popular productions, easily winning a renewal for a second season. A third season was in the planning stages when the show's major sponsor pulled out, forcing its cancellation.
The Protectors first aired in 1972 and 1973, and ran to 52 episodes over two series, each 25 minutes long - making it one of the last series of this type to be produced in a half-hour format. It starred Robert Vaughn as Harry Rule, Nyree Dawn Porter as the Contessa Caroline di Contini, and Tony Anholt as Paul Buchet. Episodes often featured prominent guest actors.
Sunday Night Theatre · 1950Sunday Night Theatre
★ 3.51950
SeriesDrama
Sunday 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.
Churchill's People · 1974Churchill's People
★ 5.01974
SeriesDrama
Churchill'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.
Dixon of Dock Green · 1955Dixon of Dock Green
★ 6.01955
SeriesDrama
Dixon of Dock Green was a BBC television series following the activities of police officers at a fictional Metropolitan Police station in the East End of London from 1955 to 1976. Some episodes were later remade as a BBC radio series in 2005 and 2006.
Return of the Saint · 1978Return of the Saint
★ 7.01978
Series
Follow the swashbuckling exploits of Simon Templar, a modern-day Robin Hood of sorts.
Manhunt · 1970Manhunt
★ 6.81970
SeriesDrama
Manhunt is a World War II drama series consisting of 26 episodes, produced by London Weekend Television in 1969 and broadcast nationwide.
The Cheaters · 1960The Cheaters
★ 8.01960
SeriesDrama
Softly Softly: Task Force · 1969Softly Softly: Task Force
★ 6.01969
SeriesCrimeDrama
Softly, Softly: Task Force is a police based drama series which ran on BBC 1 from 1969 to 1976. It was a revamp of Softly, Softly, itself a spin-off from Z-Cars. The change was made partly to coincide with the coming of colour broadcasting to the BBC's main channel BBC1. The programme was due to be called simply Task Force, but reluctant to sacrifice a much-loved brand the BBC compromised this so it became Softly, Softly: Task Force.
Porridge · 1974Porridge
★ 8.11974
SeriesComedy
Porridge is a British situation comedy broadcast on BBC1 from 1974 to 1977, running for three series, two Christmas specials and a feature film also titled Porridge. Written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, it stars Ronnie Barker and Richard Beckinsale as two inmates at the fictional HMP Slade in Cumberland. "Doing porridge" is British slang for serving a prison sentence, porridge once being the traditional breakfast in UK prisons.
The series was followed by a 1978 sequel, Going Straight, which established that Fletcher would not be going back to prison again. Porridge was voted number seven in a 2004 BBC poll of the 100 greatest British sitcoms.
Strange Report · 1969Strange Report
★ 7.71969
SeriesCrime
Adam Strange, a retired Home Office criminologist, solves bizarre cases – which have been marked "Open File" by various government departments – with the help of Hamlyn Gynt, Evelyn and Professor Marks. He employs the latest techniques in forensic investigation, which he undertakes in his own laboratory in his flat in Warwick Crescent in the Maida Vale/Little Venice area of Paddington.
Scorpion Tales · 1978Scorpion Tales
★ 7.31978
SeriesMysteryDrama
Scorpion Tales is a British anthology that aired on ITV in 1978, featuring one-off, hour-long plays with twist endings. Produced by ATV, the programme was similar in format to other thriller anthologies like Thriller and Sapphire & Steel. Each episode presented a self-contained story, often with a sinister or surprising conclusion, and starred actors such as Trevor Howard, David Robb, and Anthony Bate.
Bedtime Stories · 1974Bedtime Stories
1974
SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyDrama
An anthology of six plays, contemporary twists on well-loved tales with dark endings.
The Carnforth Practice · 1974The Carnforth Practice
★ 10.01974
SeriesDrama
A six-part BBC2 drama about the Honourable Greville Carnforth, an aristocratic solicitor based in a small village community in the Lake District.