Bernard Atha
Bernard Atha CBE was an actor known for his many appearances in Ken Loach films and various notable Play for Today productions. He also served as a Labour councillor for the Kirkstall ward in Leeds for 57 years (1957-2014) and was once the Lord Mayor of the city. He trained in ballet and law before taking up his career in acting and politics. He died aged 94 on 22nd October 2022.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.2662 |
| Birthday | 1928-08-27 |
| Place of Birth | Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK |
| Also Known As |
1970
Kes
7.436/436
Bullied at school and ignored and abused at home by his indifferent mother and older brother, Billy Casper, a 15-year-old working-class Yorkshire boy,...
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Kes
1986
The Cold War Killers
8/2
A missing 1950s era airplane is found 27 years later at the bottom of a lake. British and Soviet spy agencies are intensely interested.
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The Cold War Killers
1983
The Lady's Maid's Bell
10/1
Based on a short story by Edith Wharton. A lady's maid named Hartley finds employment with Mrs. Brympton, a lady who is confined to her country estate...
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The Lady's Maid's Bell
1979
All Day on the Sands
7/2
Mr and Mrs Cooper are staying at a boarding-house in the seaside resort of Morecambe with their small children, Colin and Jennifer. Mr Cooper has just...
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All Day on the Sands
1971
The Rank and File
6.667/3
Wilkinsons glass-works dominates a Staffordshire town. After a small walkout over pay discrepancies, the workers of the factory vote to go on strike,...
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The Rank and File
1974
Leeds United!
10/1
The true story of a strike in 1970 by female textile-factory workers in Leeds who wanted to be paid the same as their male colleagues, but whose effor...
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Leeds United!
1973
Kisses at Fifty
5/2
A father leaves his grown-up family to move in with his lover in the south, alienating himself from his four children.
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Kisses at Fifty
1976
It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet
8/2
Based on James Herriot's books about life as a 1930s veterinarian in Yorkshire, John Alderson plays the kindly doctor who ministers to animals in this...
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It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet
1978
The Spongers
10/1
In the days leading up the Queen's Silver Jubilee, Pauline, a recently separated single mother, receives a visit from a bailiff and is given 15 days t...
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The Spongers
1971
Family Life
7.269/67
A young woman, Janice, is living with her restrictive and conservative parents, who lead a dull working-class life and consider their daughter to be “...
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Family Life
1974
There Is a Happy Land
0/0
Keith Waterhouse's near autobiographical tale about characters from his childhood.
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There Is a Happy Land
1973
Steps Back
0/0
When Gerry Broadbent, in search of his roots, takes his fiancée Nita home to Brighouse, they find that the picture is not quite as he painted.
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Steps Back
2001
Liam
6.244/39
A morality tale of xenophobia, religious prejudice, mob violence, poverty, and their effect on two children in Liverpool during the Depression. When a...
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Liam
1984
The Road to 1984
7/1
1984 was not a leap into the future-but a look at the dangers already present-in Orwell's lifetime. The Road to 1984 intertwines vision and reality. I...
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