Murray Melvin
Murray Melvin (10 August 1932-14 April 2023) was an English actor and writer. He won the 1962 Cannes Film Festival Best Actor Award for his role in A Taste of Honey (1961).
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.5664 |
| Birthday | 1932-11-30 |
| Place of Birth | Hampstead, London, England, UK |
| Also Known As |
1975
Barry Lyndon
7.993/3164
An Irish rogue uses his cunning and wit to work his way up the social classes of 18th century England, transforming himself from the humble Redmond Ba...
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Barry Lyndon
1994
Doomsday Gun
5.647/17
Dr Gerald Bull was a genius at designing and building superguns (very large long range guns capable of shooting at ranges more than 100 miles). When...
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Doomsday Gun
1960
The Criminal
6.427/41
When a robbery at a racetrack goes wrong ex-con Johnny Bannion is caught and sent back to prison. He won't tell the rest of the gang where he has stas...
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The Criminal
1971
The Boy Friend
6.526/39
When the leading lady of a low-budget musical revue sprains her ankle, the assistant stage manager is forced to understudy and perform in her place.
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The Boy Friend
1971
The Devils
7.45/431
A charismatic 17th-century French priest becomes the target of a sexually obsessed nun’s witchcraft accusations, which corrupt church and state offici...
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The Devils
1961
A Taste of Honey
7.013/112
While out to avoid spending time with her narcissistic and promiscuous mother, sixteen-year-old Jo has a brief affair that leaves her pregnant and aba...
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A Taste of Honey
2021
Set the Night on Fire: The Story of Ewan MacColl
0/0
Born James Henry Miller in 1915, MacColl became prominent on the folk scene in the 1950s and was also a labour activist and actor. This affectionate d...
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Set the Night on Fire: The Story of Ewan MacColl
1975
Lisztomania
5.917/36
In the 19th century, Romantic composer/pianist Franz Liszt tries to end his hedonistic ways but keeps getting sucked back in by his seductive fellow c...
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Lisztomania
1970
Start the Revolution Without Me
5.956/45
Two sets of identical twins are accidentally switched at birth. One pair, Phillipe and Pierre DeSisi, are aristocratic and haughty, while the other, C...
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Start the Revolution Without Me
1968
The Fixer
6.173/26
Set in tsarist Russia around the turn of the century and based on a true story of a Russian Jewish peasant Yakov Bog who was wrongly imprisoned for a...
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The Fixer
1963
Sparrows Can't Sing
5.34/25
Charlie returns to the East End after two years at sea to find his house demolished and wife Maggie gone. Everyone else knows she is now shacked up wi...
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Sparrows Can't Sing
1982
Nutcracker
3.25/4
A Russian ballet dancer defects from the USSR, emigrates to England, and joins a ballet company run by a powerful, wealthy lady (Joan Collins).
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Nutcracker
1974
Ghost Story
5.083/12
Several old college friends converge at a mansion, ostensibly for a pleasant reunion. Larry Dann, the most easygoing of the bunch, comes to the conclu...
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Ghost Story
2006
Bill Douglas: Intent on Getting the Image
8.8/2
A documentary exploring Bill Douglas' struggle from childhood poverty to acclaimed filmmaker of Comrades and the Trilogy.
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Bill Douglas: Intent on Getting the Image
2010
The Village
3.9/9
A mysterious series of suicides fills the people of a small town with anxiety. Shortly before her eighteenth birthday, Kirsten sets out to solve the m...
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The Village
1979
Stories from a Flying Trunk
10/1
A magical blend of choreography, stop-motion and live action, Stories from a Flying Trunk captures the enchantment of three classic stories from Hans...
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Stories from a Flying Trunk
1977
Gulliver's Travels
5.63/23
Based on the novel of the same name by Jonathan Swift and built around the Lilliput and Blefuscu episode. It was made partly in live action and partly...
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Gulliver's Travels
1988
Testimony
5.6/5
The story of the great Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) and his life and career during the rule of Stalin.
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Testimony
1977
Joseph Andrews
5.167/12
Lady Booby alias 'Belle', the lively wife of the fat landed squire Sir Thomas Booby, has a lusty eye on the attractive, intelligent villager Joseph An...
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Joseph Andrews
1960
Suspect
6.864/11
A government team researching cures for plague find their results put on the Official Secrets list. One of their number is so incensed by this that he...
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Suspect
1992
As You Like It
6/3
Hiding out in an industrial wasteland from the murderous wrath of a regional ruler, a woman, disguised as a boy, gives wooing lessons to the edgy lad...
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As You Like It
2023
The Undertaker
5.5/2
A meek undertaker becomes trapped in a violent world when a gangster enlists him to dispose of a growing number of corpses.
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The Undertaker
1973
Ghost in the Noonday Sun
4.875/8
A pirate crewman kills his captain after learning where he has hidden his buried treasure. However, as he begins to lose his memory, he relies more an...
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Ghost in the Noonday Sun
1962
Solo for Sparrow
0/0
A group of crooks accidentally kill an elderly shop assistant while stealing the keys to the jewellery shop where she works. When his superiors think...
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Solo for Sparrow
1984
This Office Life
0/0
On arrival at British Albion, Mr Gryce felt that his lack of ambition would be completely fulfilled. There was a luncheon voucher scheme, a pension fu...
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This Office Life
1966
Alfie
6.522/228
A young man leads a promiscuous lifestyle until several life reversals make him rethink his purposes and goals in life.
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Alfie
1990
The Krays
6.076/118
Twins Ronnie and Reggie Kray are raised in east London, under the influence of their hateful but doting mother Violet. As they grow up, Ronnie's viole...
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The Krays
1962
H.M.S. Defiant
6.534/59
Defiant's crew is part of a fleet-wide movement to present a petition of grievances to the Admiralty. Violence must be no part of it. The continual sa...
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H.M.S. Defiant
1966
Isadora Duncan, the Biggest Dancer in the World
5.375/8
The outrageous life of the American dancer of the 1920s, Isadora Duncan, whom Ken Russell described as "part genius and part charlatan".
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Isadora Duncan, the Biggest Dancer in the World
1990
The Fool
8/3
A costume drama / satire about financial skull-duggery, and confidence tricksters in both the upper and lower classes in Victorian London. A working c...
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The Fool
1976
The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones
3.5/6
Another stab at Henry Fielding's hilarious novel about the amorous misadventures of a dashing young man in 18th century England. The brilliant 1963 ve...
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The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones
2002
Hell on Earth: The Desecration & Resurrection of The Devils
6.4/10
Hell on Earth is a documentary about Ken Russell's 1971 film, The Devils. Film critic Mark Kermode chats to Russell as well as two of the film’s stars...
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Hell on Earth: The Desecration & Resurrection of The Devils
1999
Alice in Wonderland
6.219/392
Alice follows a white rabbit down a rabbit-hole into a whimsical Wonderland, where she meets characters like the delightful Cheshire Cat, the clumsy W...
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Alice in Wonderland
2012
The Grey Mile
0/0
Terry 'The Taxman' Tempest, the greatest bank robber there ever was, whose true identity was never discovered, finds himself languishing in a dilapida...
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The Grey Mile
1963
The Ceremony
5.591/11
A man has an affair with his condemned brother's girlfriend while plotting his escape in Tangier.
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The Ceremony
2017
The Lost City of Z
6.389/3078
A true-life drama in the 1920s, centering on British explorer Col. Percy Fawcett, who discovered evidence of a previously unknown, advanced civilizati...
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The Lost City of Z
1967
Smashing Time
6.292/12
Two young women arrive in London to make it big in show business, and become corrupted by money and fame in the process.
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Smashing Time
1976
Shout at the Devil
6.019/52
During World War One an English adventurer, an American elephant poacher and the latter's attractive young daughter, set out to destroy a German battl...
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Shout at the Devil
1966
Kaleidoscope
5.286/14
Barney Lincoln is a rambling gambling man who scores sensational wins at poker and chemin de fer because he has succeeded in marking the original plat...
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Kaleidoscope
1990
Sunday Pursuit
7/2
Thomas Wilkins has faithfully worked his entire life on Saville Row. Suddenly he is fired by his boss Mr Gerald, who wants a younger man with new idea...
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Sunday Pursuit
1972
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
4.438/16
A couple uses extremely black comedy to survive taking care of a daughter who is nearly completely brain dead. They take turns doing the daughter's vo...
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A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
1985
Sacred Hearts
4.75/4
A tough nun (Anna Massey) demands belief and obedience from convent schoolgirls (Katrin Cartlidge, Oona Kirsch) in World War II England.
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Sacred Hearts
1999
Stanley and Us
6.333/3
Three hapless directors arrive in England from Italy to make a documentary on their idol. The funny thing is, they have no interviews lined up! Not to...
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Stanley and Us
1991
Let Him Have It
6.667/48
In 1950s England, slow-witted Derek Bentley falls in with a group of petty criminals led by Chris Craig, a teenager with a fondness for American gangs...
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Let Him Have It
1973
Gawain and the Green Knight
5/6
The medieval legend of a supernatural knight who challenges the king's men to kill him.
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Gawain and the Green Knight
2001
The Emperor's New Clothes
6.789/45
Napoleon, exiled, devises a plan to retake the throne. He'll swap places with commoner Eugene Lenormand, sneak into Paris, then Lenormand will reveal...
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The Emperor's New Clothes
1961
Petticoat Pirates
6.625/4
Undistinguished British farce (in Technicolor and CinemaScope). Stoker Charlie (the diminutive Drake) helps 150 Wrens under Superintendent Maxine Audl...
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Petticoat Pirates
1987
Comrades
6.86/25
The story of "The Tolpuddle Martyrs". A group of 19th century English farm labourers who formed one of the first trade unions and started a campaign t...
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Comrades
1989
Slipstream
4.333/60
In the near future, where Earth has been devastated by man's pollution and giant winds rule the planet, bounty hunter Matt kidnaps a murderer out of t...
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Slipstream
2004
The Phantom of the Opera
7.265/1762
A young soprano becomes the obsession of a disfigured and murderous musical genius who lives beneath the Paris Opera House.
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The Phantom of the Opera
1977
The Prince and the Pauper
6.058/60
Tom Canty is a poor English boy who bears a remarkable resemblance to Edward, Prince of Wales and son of King Henry VIII. The two boys meet and decide...
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The Prince and the Pauper
2018
The Ghost of Peter Sellers
5.8/12
A documentary about Peter Medak's unreleased film 'Ghost in the Noonday Sun', starring Peter Sellers and filmed in Cyprus in 1973.
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The Ghost of Peter Sellers
1964
The Diary of a Nobody
6/1
Ken Russell's silent film treatment of the 19th century comic novel by the Brothers Grossmith - George and Weedon. Starring Bryan Pringle, Avril Elgar...
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The Diary of a Nobody
1994
Princess Caraboo
5.621/29
Bristol, England, early 19th century. A beautiful young stranger who speaks a weird language is tried for the crime of begging. But when a man claims...
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Princess Caraboo
1973
The Adventures Of Don Quixote
10/1
A self-proclaimed "knight" and his hapless squire travel the Spanish countryside, attacking "giants" that are really windmills in his attempt to win t...
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The Adventures Of Don Quixote
2001
David Copperfield
6.271/24
A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal development, and the complexities of human relations...
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David Copperfield
1988
Testimony
5.6/5
The story of the great Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) and his life and career during the rule of Stalin.
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Testimony
1969
Something in the Cellar
0/0
Professor Monty Lafcado, haunted by the memory of his late mother, sets out to construct a mighty computer in his basement, much to the concern of his...
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Something in the Cellar
Ghost Stories: The Curious Tales of the Making of Ghost Story
0/0
An all-new 72 minute featurette including interviews with Director/Producer Stephen Weeks, Actors Larry Dann and Murray Melvin, British Horror Icon Ba...
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Ghost Stories: The Curious Tales of the Making of Ghost Story
2007
T-Bag: The Reunion Documentary
0/0
T-Bag: the Reunion Documentary is a set of interviews done with multiple actors and the crew of the Tv series of the same name
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