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Julian Wadham

Born August 7, 1958 · Ware, Hertfordshire, England, UK (age 68)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Julian Wadham (born 7 August 1958) is a British actor of stage, film and television. He has appeared on television as both Charles II (in the 2004 BBC docudrama Wren: The Man Who Built Britain) and George V (in the TV adaptation of the play My Boy Jack). He appeared onstage as Don Pedro (alongside Zoë Wanamaker and Simon Russell Beale) at the Royal National …

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Napoleon

Napoleon · 2023

MovieHistoryWar

An epic that details the checkered rise and fall of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and his relentless journey to power through the prism of his addictive, volatile relationship with his wife, Josephine.

War Horse

War Horse · 2011

MovieWarHistory

On the brink of the First World War, Albert's beloved horse Joey is sold to the Cavalry by his father. Against the backdrop of the Great War, Joey begins an odyssey full of danger, joy, and sorrow, and he transforms everyone he meets along the way. Meanwhile, Albert, unable to forget his equine friend, searches the battlefields of France to find Joey and bring him home.

The English Patient

The English Patient · 1996

The English Patient

MovieDramaRomance

In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert along with several other prominent explorers. As World War II unfolds, Almásy enters into a world of love, betrayal, and politics.

Exorcist: The Beginning

Exorcist: The Beginning · 2004

Exorcist: The Beginning

Years before Father Merrin helped save Regan MacNeil’s soul, he first encounters the demon Pazuzu in East Africa.

The Song of Names

The Song of Names · 2019

The Song of Names

MovieDramaMusic

A man searches for his childhood best friend, a Polish violin prodigy orphaned in the Holocaust, who vanished decades before on the night of his first public performance.

Maurice

Maurice · 1987

MovieDramaRomance

After his lover rejects him, Maurice attempts to come to terms with his sexuality within the restrictiveness of Edwardian society.

The Iron Lady

The Iron Lady · 2011

MovieHistoryDrama

A look at the life of Margaret Thatcher, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, with a focus on the price she paid for power.

Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist

Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist · 2005

Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist

Father Merrin takes a sabbatical from the Church to devote himself to history and archaeology as he struggles with his shattered faith.

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Napoleon

Napoleon · 2023

MovieHistoryWar

An epic that details the checkered rise and fall of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and his relentless journey to power through the prism of his addictive, volatile relationship with his wife, Josephine.

Jean de Cambaceres

War Horse

War Horse · 2011

MovieWarHistory

On the brink of the First World War, Albert's beloved horse Joey is sold to the Cavalry by his father. Against the backdrop of the Great War, Joey begins an odyssey full of danger, joy, and sorrow, and he transforms everyone he meets along the way. Meanwhile, Albert, unable to forget his equine friend, searches the battlefields of France to find Joey and bring him home.

Trench Captain

The English Patient

The English Patient · 1996

The English Patient

MovieDramaRomance

In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert along with several other prominent explorers. As World War II unfolds, Almásy enters into a world of love, betrayal, and politics.

Madox

Exorcist: The Beginning

Exorcist: The Beginning · 2004

Exorcist: The Beginning

Years before Father Merrin helped save Regan MacNeil’s soul, he first encounters the demon Pazuzu in East Africa.

Major Granville

The Song of Names

The Song of Names · 2019

The Song of Names

MovieDramaMusic

A man searches for his childhood best friend, a Polish violin prodigy orphaned in the Holocaust, who vanished decades before on the night of his first public performance.

Mr. Bailey

Maurice

Maurice · 1987

MovieDramaRomance

After his lover rejects him, Maurice attempts to come to terms with his sexuality within the restrictiveness of Edwardian society.

Hull

The Iron Lady

The Iron Lady · 2011

MovieHistoryDrama

A look at the life of Margaret Thatcher, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, with a focus on the price she paid for power.

Francis Pym

Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist

Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist · 2005

Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist

Father Merrin takes a sabbatical from the Church to devote himself to history and archaeology as he struggles with his shattered faith.

Major Granville

Colette

Colette · 2018

MovieDramaHistory

After marrying a successful Parisian writer known commonly as Willy, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette is transplanted from her childhood home in rural France to the intellectual and artistic splendor of Paris. Soon after, Willy convinces Colette to ghostwrite for him. She pens a semi-autobiographical novel about a witty and brazen country girl named Claudine, sparking a bestseller and a cultural sensation. After its success, Colette and Willy become the talk of Paris and their adventures inspire additional Claudine novels.

Ollendorff

The 9th Life of Louis Drax

The 9th Life of Louis Drax · 2016

The 9th Life of Louis Drax

MovieMysteryThriller

A psychologist who begins working with a young boy who has suffered a near-fatal fall finds himself drawn into a mystery that tests the boundaries of fantasy and reality.

Dr. Janek

Victoria & Abdul

Victoria & Abdul · 2017

Victoria & Abdul

MovieDramaHistory

Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.

Alick Yorke

The Riot Club

The Riot Club · 2014

Two first-year students at Oxford University join a secret society and learn that their reputations can be made or destroyed over the course of one evening.

Miles' Father

Now Is Good

Now Is Good · 2012

MovieDramaRomance

A girl dying of leukemia compiles a list of things she'd like to do before passing away. Topping the list is her desire to lose her virginity.

Dr. Ryan

The Happy Prince

The Happy Prince · 2018

The Happy Prince

In 1895, Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was the most famous writer in London, and Bosie Douglas, son of the notorious Marquess of Queensberry, was his lover. Accused and convicted of gross indecency, he was imprisoned for two years and subjected to hard labor. Once free, he abandons England to live in France, where he will spend his last years, haunted by memories of the past, poverty and immense sadness.

Mr. Arbuthnott

The Madness of King George

The Madness of King George · 1994

The Madness of King George

MovieComedyDrama

Aging King George III of England is exhibiting signs of madness, a problem little understood in 1788. As the monarch alternates between bouts of confusion and near-violent outbursts of temper, his hapless doctors attempt the ineffectual cures of the day. Meanwhile, Queen Charlotte and Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger attempt to prevent the king's political enemies, led by the Prince of Wales, from usurping the throne.

Pitt

Churchill

Churchill · 2017

MovieDramaHistory

A ticking-clock thriller following Winston Churchill in the 24 hours before D-Day.

Bernard Montgomery

Goya's Ghosts

Goya's Ghosts · 2006

MovieDramaHistory

Painter Francisco Goya becomes involved with the Spanish Inquisition after his muse, Inés, is arrested by the church for heresy. Her family turns to him, hoping that his connection with fanatical Inquisitor Lorenzo, whom he is painting, can secure her release.

Joseph Bonaparte

High Heels and Low Lifes

High Heels and Low Lifes · 2001

High Heels and Low Lifes

MovieActionCrime

Two friends are drawn into a seedy underworld of extortion and violence when they try to blackmail a gang of bank robbers.

Rogers

Outpost: Black Sun

Outpost: Black Sun · 2012

Outpost: Black Sun

MovieActionHorror

A pair of investigators team up with a Special Forces Unit to venture deep inside a war raging between the military and a massive army of Nazi Zombie Stormtroopers. Their mission is to fight their way behind enemy lines, locate the technology at the source of this growing threat and prevent the seemingly inevitable rise of the 4th Reich.

Hunt

A Different Loyalty

A Different Loyalty · 2004

A Different Loyalty

MovieThrillerRomance

In January 1963, British journalist Leo Cauffield suddenly disappears from his home in Beirut. His wife Sally knew that he was working part-time for British intelligence, but was not prepared to be told by the British embassy that they suspect he has defected to Communist Russia. As his wife puts together the pieces of the mysterious jigsaw of the past, tracking her passionate relationship with her husband and his history as former head of MI6’s counter-espionage section, her relentless search for the truth takes her to London, New York and finally Moscow.

Andrew Darcy

Outpost

Outpost · 2008

MovieActionAdventure

In a seedy bar in a town ravaged by war, scientist and businessman Hunt hires mercenary and former Royal Marine D.C. to assemble a crack team of ex-soldiers to protect him on a dangerous journey into no-man's land. Their mission is to scope out an old military bunker in Eastern Europe. It should be easy – 48 hours at the most. Lots of cash for little risk. Or so he says...

Hunt

Wah-Wah

Wah-Wah · 2005

Set at the end of the 1960s, as Swaziland is about to receive independence from United Kingdom, the film follows the young Ralph Compton, at 12, through his parents' traumatic separation, till he's 14.

Charles Bingham

Queen & Country

Queen & Country · 2015

Queen & Country

In this sequel to Hope and Glory (1987), Bill Rohan has grown up and is drafted into the army, where he and his eccentric best mate, Percy, battle their snooty superiors on the base and look for love in town.

Colonel Fielding

My Boy Jack

My Boy Jack · 2007

MovieDramaHistory

Author Rudyard Kipling and his wife search for their 17-year-old son after he goes missing during WWI.

King George V

Midsomer Murders

Midsomer Murders · 1997

Midsomer Murders

SeriesCrimeDrama

The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.

Simon Fletcher

Death in Paradise

Death in Paradise · 2011

Death in Paradise

SeriesComedyCrime

A brilliant but idiosyncratic British detective and his resourceful local team solve baffling murder mysteries on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint Marie.

Frank Henderson

Agatha Christie's Poirot

Agatha Christie's Poirot · 1989

Agatha Christie's Poirot

SeriesCrimeDrama

From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.

Rupert Carrington

Outlander

Outlander · 2014

SeriesDramaSci-Fi & Fantasy

The story of Claire Randall, a married combat nurse from 1945 who is mysteriously swept back in time to 1743, where she is immediately thrown into an unknown world where her life is threatened. When she is forced to marry Jamie, a chivalrous and romantic young Scottish warrior, a passionate affair is ignited that tears Claire's heart between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.

Lord General George Murray

Casualty

Casualty · 1986

SeriesDramaSoap

Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.

Rev. Tony Vassar

The Crown

The Crown · 2016

The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny. The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the world – Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street – and the intrigues, love lives and machinations behind the great events that shaped the second half of the 20th century. Two houses, two courts, one Crown.

David Stancliffe

Foyle's War

Foyle's War · 2002

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.

W/Cmdr Stephen Foster

Father Brown

Father Brown · 2013

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.

Colonel Adams

Downton Abbey

Downton Abbey · 2010

A chronicle of the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants in the post-Edwardian era—with great events in history having an effect on their lives and on the British social hierarchy.

General Sir Herbert Strutt

Agatha Christie's Marple

Agatha Christie's Marple · 2004

Agatha Christie's Marple

SeriesDramaCrime

The adventures of Miss Jane Marple, an elderly spinster living in the quiet little village of St Mary Mead. During her many visits to friends and relatives in other villages, Miss Marple often stumbles upon mysterious murders which she helps solve. Although the police are sometimes reluctant to accept Miss Marple's help, her reputation and unparalleled powers of observation eventually win them over.

Kevin Halliday

The Chelsea Detective

The Chelsea Detective · 2022

The Chelsea Detective

SeriesCrimeMystery

Detective Inspector Max Arnold lives on a battered houseboat at the end of Cheyne Walk after separating from his art dealer wife Astrid. The son of a local bookshop owner, Max is a far cry from the affluent elite whose crimes he'll help solve along with D.C. Priya Shamsie.

Andrew Mansfield

Spooks

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.

Derek Morris

Lewis

SeriesCrimeDrama

Inspector Robert Lewis and Sergeant James Hathaway solve the tough cases that the learned inhabitants of Oxford throw at them.

Tom Rattenbury

A Touch of Frost

A Touch of Frost · 1992

A Touch of Frost

SeriesDramaCrime

Jack Frost is a gritty, dogged and unconventional detective with sympathy for the underdog and an instinct for moral justice who attracts trouble like a magnet. Despite some animosity with his superintendent, Norman “Horn-rimmed Harry” Mullett, Frost and his ever-changing roster of assistants manage to solve cases via his clever mind, good heart, and cool touch.

Harry Monkton

Heartbeat

Heartbeat · 1992

SeriesCrimeDrama

Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.

Gordon Radford

Silk

Passionate defence barrister Martha Costello faces challenging cases and surprising clients, which test her faith in the criminal justice system. Gifted colleague Clive Reader is called to the bar with her. They work hard with pupils, Nick Slade and Niamh Cranitch, but ultimately only one can eventually be taken on as a member of chambers.

Lever

Dalziel and Pascoe

Dalziel and Pascoe · 1996

Dalziel and Pascoe

SeriesMysteryCrime

In the fictional Yorkshire town of Wetherton, the unlikely duo of politically incorrect elephant-in-a-China-shop-copper DS Andrew Dalziel (pronounced Dee-ell) and his more sensitive and university educated sidekick DS, later DI, Peter Pascoe is always on hand to solve the classic murder mystery, while maintaining down-to-Earth wit and humour.

Richard Johnstone

Bergerac

Bergerac · 1981

Jim 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.

David Russell

Playhouse

Playhouse · 1974

A one-hour anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas produced by the BBC.

Patron's Son

Taggart

Taggart · 1983

SeriesCrimeDrama

Taggart is a Scottish detective television program. The series revolves around a group of detectives initially in the Maryhill CID of Strathclyde Police, though various storylines have happened in other parts of the Greater Glasgow area, and as of the most recent series the team have operated out of the fictional John Street police station across the street from the City Chambers.

The Inspector Lynley Mysteries

The Inspector Lynley Mysteries · 2002

The Inspector Lynley Mysteries

SeriesCrimeDrama

DS Barbara Havers is assigned to work with the upper-crust DI Thomas Lynley to solve murders.

David Sydeham

The Ruth Rendell Mysteries

The Ruth Rendell Mysteries · 1987

The Ruth Rendell Mysteries

SeriesDramaMystery

The Ruth Rendell mysteries is a British television series made by TVS and Meridian Television for ITV between 2 August 1987 and 11 October 2000.

John Dyson

Pie in the Sky

Pie in the Sky · 1994

SeriesComedyDrama

Pie in the Sky is a British offbeat police comedy drama programme starring Richard Griffiths and Maggie Steed, created by Andrew Payne and first broadcast in five series on BBC1 between 13 March 1994 and 17 August 1997 as well as being syndicated on other channels in other countries, including the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The series departs slightly from other police dramas in that the protagonist, Henry Crabbe, while still being an on-duty policeman, is also the head chef of the title restaurant set in the fictional town of Middleton and county of Westershire.

Anthony Neale

Black Doves

Black Doves · 2024

SeriesAction & AdventureMystery

When a spy posing as a politician's wife learns her lover has been murdered, an old assassin friend joins her on a quest for truth — and vengeance.

Andy