Fulton Mackay
Fulton Mackay OBE (12 August 1922 - 6 June 1987) was a Scottish actor and playwright, best known for his role as prison officer Mr. Mackay in the 1970s sitcom Porridge.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.491 |
| Birthday | 1922-08-12 |
| Place of Birth | Paisley, Scotland, UK |
| Also Known As |
1983
Local Hero
6.787/395
An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things don't go as expected.
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Local Hero
1982
Britannia Hospital
6.313/72
Britannia Hospital, an esteemed English institution, is marking its gala anniversary with a visit by the Queen Mother herself. But when investigative...
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Britannia Hospital
1971
Gumshoe
6.368/38
A would be private eye gets mixed up in a smuggling case.
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Gumshoe
1973
Nothing But the Night
6.222/37
When various trustees of the Van Traylen Orphanage begin dying in close order, it's at first written off as a coincidence. But, when a school bus acci...
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Nothing But the Night
1986
Defence of the Realm
6.488/40
A reporter named Mullen 'stumbles' onto a story linking a prominent Member of Parliament to a KGB agent and a near-nuclear disaster involving a teenag...
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Defence of the Realm
1985
A Sense of Freedom
6.452/21
The true story of Jimmy Boyle, who was reputed to be Scotland's most violent man.
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A Sense of Freedom
1952
I'm A Stranger
6.333/3
When his grandfather dies, George Westcott (Patrick Doonan) returns home from India to collect his inheritance -- only to find that the will has myste...
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I'm A Stranger
1979
Porridge
6.782/39
Times are hard for habitual guest of Her Majesty Norman Stanley Fletcher. The new prison officer, Beale, makes MacKay look soft and what's more, an es...
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Porridge
2007
Hitler: The Comedy Years
5/1
A documentary about the portrayal of Adolf Hitler in popular culture.
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Hitler: The Comedy Years
1981
If You Go Down in the Woods Today
6.333/3
A Boy Scout troupe led by their scoutmaster (Sykes) is on a field trip to a seemingly-peaceful English woodland. However, the woods are actually teemi...
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If You Go Down in the Woods Today
1984
Sleepwalker
5.538/13
Saxon Logan's extraordinary 49 minute featurette pitches four people into a class war situation with a vicious sting in the tale.
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Sleepwalker
1983
Fraggle Rock: Live by the Rule of the Rock
0/0
Gobo has not received his usual postcard from his Uncle Traveling Matt. He eventually comes to realize that he must venture out into Outer Space to lo...
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Fraggle Rock: Live by the Rule of the Rock
1984
Night Train to Murder
6/4
When Eric's niece Kathy becomes one of the heirs to a considerable fortune, her life (and those of the other heirs) is placed in jeopardy by the actio...
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Night Train to Murder
1959
Brand
9/1
Brand's a bleak and desolate play that challenges the notion of a stern and stoic faith in the will of God. The title character is a pastor who return...
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Brand
1957
Enchanted Isles
0/0
A trip through the Highlands and Islands of Scotland following in the footsteps of Bonnie Prince Charlie.
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Enchanted Isles
1952
The Brave Don't Cry
6.05/10
At Balloch Moss mine in Scotland, water comes through a seam bringing a torrent of mud into the mine and flooding the pit shaft, resulting in 118 men...
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The Brave Don't Cry
1962
A Prize of Arms
6.65/10
A criminal gang sets out to pull off the heist of a large army payroll.
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A Prize of Arms
2022
Comedy Classics: Porridge
0/0
An homage to the prison comedy series Porridge, created by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais. This documentary examines how Ronnie Barker’s Fletch influ...
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Comedy Classics: Porridge
1976
Porridge: The Desperate Hours
0/0
Fletcher and Godber are in trouble for brewing liquor in the lead-up to Christmas, but are caught up in a hostage situation in the Governor's office.
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Porridge: The Desperate Hours
1975
Porridge: No Way Out
0/0
Fletcher discovers that his fellow inmates are planning to escape.
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Porridge: No Way Out
1985
Dreamchild
6.6/38
80-year-old Alice Hargreaves is about to visit Columbia University to attend a reception in honour of author Lewis Carroll. As a child, Alice's close...
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Dreamchild
1981
Going Gently
7.5/2
Play about two elderly cancer patients suffering in hospital.
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Going Gently
1985
Water
6/34
The British governor of a tiny island nation in the Caribbean Commonwealth finds his idyllic existence thrown into chaos when an American drilling com...
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Water
1970
Doctor Who and the Silurians
7.3/9
Investigating mysterious power failures and a death at an underground research centre, The Doctor discovers a colony of Silurians - prehistoric, intel...
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Doctor Who and the Silurians
1969
Vendetta for The Saint
6.9/7
Simon Templar is on holiday in Naples when a small uproar on a lunch table draws his attention. An English tourist attempts to greet an Italian busine...
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Vendetta for The Saint
1981
The Life and Times of David Lloyd George
0/0
The Life and Times of David Lloyd George charts the life of the controversial Liberal politician with Philip Madoc in the titular role. The title them...
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The Life and Times of David Lloyd George
1987
A Wreath of Roses
7/1
Period drama based on a novel. While waiting for a train, a lonely woman is witness to a suicide on the tracks. A sympathetic man strikes up a friend...
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A Wreath of Roses
1983
Ill Fares the Land
7/1
The story of the last two years the inhabitants of the islands of St Kilda (far off the west coast of Scotland) spent there, before being evacuated at...
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Ill Fares the Land
1971
Orkney
9/1
Three stories reflecting life in the Orkney Islands, two set in the past, and one in the present.
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Orkney
1953
Laxdale Hall
7/3
A starchy parliamentary delegation is sent to a remote Scottish Highlands community, where the residents are protesting the poor condition of their ro...
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Laxdale Hall
1984
To Catch a King
7/2
Robert Wagner plays an American who owns a Lisbon nightclub and Teri Garr is a slightly dippy chanteuse who has stumbled across a Nazi plot to kidnap...
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To Catch a King
1973
Three's One
7/1
Are Maggie and Tony using each other as a means of communicating with Dr Leafer? Or are they using Dr Leafer as a means of communicating with each oth...
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Three's One
1976
Clay, Smeddum and Greenden
7/2
Trilogy of one-act plays based on short stories by Lewis Grassic Gibbon. ‘Clay’ is the story of a men who neglects his wife in favour of his land. ‘Sm...
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Clay, Smeddum and Greenden
1976
Willie Rough
0/0
In the dark days of 1914 Willie Rough set out to find work in Greenock. He becomes a shipbuilding shop steward and soon finds himself involved in a bi...
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Willie Rough
1974
Shapes In The Water
0/0
Highland boat-building, showing intermediate processes of clinker- and carvel built boats, as well as those involved in ferroconcrete and steel constr...
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Shapes In The Water
1980
The Clearances
0/0
A look at the causes, execution and legacy of the Highland Clearances in Scotland.
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The Clearances
1965
Strife
0/0
A personal dispute between a union leader and a management leader causes chaos for workers at a troublesome tin mining company.
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Strife
1962
Private Potter
5.333/3
A military mission is interrupted when a British soldier claims that God had appeared to him in a transcendental vision.
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Private Potter
1963
For King and Country: Out There
0/0
1915: Determined to do her bit for the country, young Annie Hudd has a burning desire to go to France to help the wounded soldiers but suffers many se...
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For King and Country: Out There
1986
Feller By The Name Of...
6/1
A paper bag salesman in Bombay accidentally stumbles on to a film set and becomes involved in farcical and surreal game of hide and seek with a very o...
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Feller By The Name Of...
1965
Andover and the Android
0/0
Roger Andover will inherit a fortune if he marries. But he is a solitary man with no ambition: human relationships mystify and dismay him. But to pres...
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