Alec McCowen
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Alexander Duncan McCowen, CBE (26 May 1925 – 6 February 2017) was an English actor. He was known for his work in numerous film and stage productions.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.9569 |
| Birthday | 1925-05-26 |
| Place of Birth | Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, UK |
| Also Known As | Alexander Duncan McCowen, |
1956
The Long Arm
6.935/23
Scotland Yard detectives attempt to solve a spate of safe robberies across England beginning with clues found at the latest burglary in London. The fi...
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The Long Arm
1972
Frenzy
7.099/1010
London is terrorized by a vicious sex killer known as The Necktie Murderer. Following the brutal slaying of his ex-wife, down-on-his-luck Richard Blan...
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Frenzy
1989
Henry V
7.122/407
In 1415, in the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France.
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Henry V
1993
The Age of Innocence
6.962/1208
In 19th century New York high society, a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her husband, while he is engaged to the woman's cousin...
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The Age of Innocence
1972
Travels with My Aunt
5.963/41
At his mother's funeral, stuffy bank clerk Henry Pulling meets his Aunt Augusta, an elderly eccentric with more-than-shady dealings who pulls him alon...
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Travels with My Aunt
1958
The Silent Enemy
5.947/19
The Mediterranean, 1941/42 - Axis forces are using frogmen and manned torpedoes to attack previously impregnable harbours. The Allied forces need to c...
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The Silent Enemy
1979
Hanover Street
5.624/109
Margaret is a nurse in England during WW2, and married to a secret agent. Things get complicated when she falls for David, an American pilot.
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Hanover Street
1966
The Witches
6.033/61
Following a nervous breakdown, Gwen takes up the job of head teacher in the small village of Haddaby. There she can benefit from the tranquillity and...
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The Witches
1983
Never Say Never Again
6.055/1603
James Bond returns as the secret agent 007 to battle the evil organization SPECTRE. Bond must defeat Largo, who has stolen two atomic warheads for nuc...
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Never Say Never Again
1957
Time Without Pity
6.6/50
Alec Graham is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie, with whom he spent a weekend at the English country home of the parents of...
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Time Without Pity
1962
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
7.178/169
A rebellious youth, sentenced to a boy’s reformatory for robbing a bakery, rises through the ranks of the institution by impressing its Governor throu...
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The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
1965
The Agony and the Ecstasy
7.086/152
During the Italian Renaissance, Pope Julius II contracts the influential artist Michelangelo to sculpt 40 statues for his tomb. When the pope changes...
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The Agony and the Ecstasy
1970
The Hawaiians
5.525/20
A wanderer returns home only to find political turmoil, disease and romantic difficulties.
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The Hawaiians
1957
Town on Trial
6.521/24
When an attractive young girl is murdered, suspicion falls on several members of the local tennis club. It falls to Police Inspector Halloran to sort...
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Town on Trial
1979
Henry V
6.2/5
Insulted by the Dauphin, the newly-crowned King Henry V gathers his troops for war. But Henry must convince his men that he has left his wild days beh...
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Henry V
1985
The Assam Garden
7.333/3
An insecure, aggressive widow of a tea garden manager reluctantly develops an affectionate relationship with an Indian housewife and her family.
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The Assam Garden
1993
Maria's Child
3.333/3
Maria is a dancer who becomes pregnant, unexpectedly, and has to decide whether or not to keep the baby. When her live-in boyfriend, who is not the fa...
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Maria's Child
1972
Triple Exposure
0/0
Len climbs Veronica and Percy’s fence intent on burglary, but what really happens next? The three acts of the play show the incident from each of the...
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Triple Exposure
1957
Rope
0/0
British iTV adaptation of Patrick Hamilton's Rope that aired as a part of ITV Play of the Week.
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Rope
1980
Twelfth Night
6.75/4
Viola and Sebastian are lookalike twins, separated by a shipwreck. Viola lands in Illyria, where she disguises herself like her brother and goes into...
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Twelfth Night
1978
Stevie
7.222/9
For a poet with a gift for crafting words into barbs, Stevie Smith lives a relatively conventional life. Sheltered in a London suburb, she spends her...
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Stevie
1955
The Deep Blue Sea
4.857/14
A woman is unhappy in her marriage to a boring, stiff judge, so she takes up with a wild-living RAF pilot, who ends up being more than she can handle.
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The Deep Blue Sea
1983
The Secret Adversary
7/9
After a chance meeting and an indiscreet conversation, childhood friends Tommy Beresford and Tuppence Cowley become involved in a convoluted intrigue...
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The Secret Adversary
1987
Personal Services
6.109/46
Fed up with working hard just to scrape by, Christine Painter comes up with a bold plan to become the madam of a brothel and earn her financial freedo...
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Personal Services
1953
The Cruel Sea
6.951/81
At the start of World War II, Cmdr. Ericson is assigned to convoy escort HMS Compass Rose with inexperienced officers and men just out of training. Th...
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The Cruel Sea
1990
St Mark's Gospel
0/0
Alec McCowen's award-winning solo performance of the St Mark Gospel.
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St Mark's Gospel
1995
Cruel Train
4.25/4
In wartime England, railway official Ruben Roberts discovers that his wife was sexually abused as a child by the Chairman of the Line, also her godfat...
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Cruel Train
1989
Max Miller: I Like The Girls Who Do
0/0
A celebration of Max Miller , comedian and star. Presented by Gerald Scarfe with Max Bygraves Charlie Chester , Doris Hare Jean Kent , Alec McCowen,...
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Max Miller: I Like The Girls Who Do
1983
Forever Young
9/1
A lonely young boy idolizes his local priest. An old acquaintance of the priest shows up one day, and the boy learns that his idol isn't exactly what...
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Forever Young
1991
The War That Never Ends
5/2
The Peloponnesian Wars (Athens versus Sparta for twenty-seven years) told in the format of news broadcast-like monologues by Theucydides, Plato, and o...
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The War That Never Ends
1957
The One That Got Away
6.8/57
Based on the true story of Oberleutnant Franz von Werra, the only German prisoner of war captured in Britain to escape back to Germany during the Seco...
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The One That Got Away
1984
Squaring the Circle
5/2
An account of how Lech Walesa and the "Solidarity" trade union confronted the might of Communist dictatorship in Poland.
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Squaring the Circle
1987
Cry Freedom
7.009/231
A dramatic story, based on actual events, about the friendship between two men struggling against apartheid in South Africa in the 1970s. Donald Woods...
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Cry Freedom
2002
Gangs of New York
7.315/7174
In early 1860s New York, Irish immigrant Amsterdam Vallon is released from prison and returns to the Five Points, seeking revenge against his father's...
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Gangs of New York
1957
The Good Companions
7/1
The story revolves around the Dinky Doos, a provincial musical troupe living from hand to mouth.
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The Good Companions
1976
Private Lives
6.8/5
Divorced couple Amanda and Elyot have both recently remarried. On their honeymoons, however, they discover that they have accidentally booked adjoinin...
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Private Lives
1958
A Night to Remember
7.66/291
The sinking of the Titanic is presented in a highly realistic fashion in this tense British drama. The disaster is portrayed largely from the perspect...
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A Night to Remember
1982
A Dedicated Man
10/1
Edith is a hotel waitress, single and in her mid-forties, with a major infatuation on Maurice Silcox, the hotel's head waiter. But Edith becomes distr...
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A Dedicated Man
1988
The Importance of Being Earnest
5.429/7
Two young gentlemen living in 1890s England use the same pseudonym ('Ernest') on the sly, which is fine until they both fall in love with women using...
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The Importance of Being Earnest
1963
In the Cool of the Day
5.75/12
After he mends a marital rift between a vacationing young couple, the bored, fragile wife falls hopelessly in love with the husband's ex-colleague who...
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In the Cool of the Day
1989
Dialogue in the Dark
0/0
A summer evening in Edinburgh, 1776. The ailing philosopher David Hume has an unexpected visitor.
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Dialogue in the Dark
1954
The Divided Heart
6.75/8
During World War II, a German woman, Inga, goes missing and is presumed dead. Her infant son is placed in an orphanage where, years later, he's adopte...
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The Divided Heart
1978
When the Actors Come
0/0
On a cold day in January 1850, a group of travelling actors arrive out of the snow at the remote country estate of Count Horvath, in eastern Hungary....
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When the Actors Come
1976
A Man of Morality
10/1
A moral philosopher at a university finds his own morals under scrutiny.
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A Man of Morality
1954
The Matchmaker
0/0
Can the ever-resilient Mrs. Levi melt the heart of the eternally sour-tempered Mr. Vandergelder?
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The Matchmaker
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
1959
The Doctor's Dilemma
6.5/9
Four doctors face a serious dilemma when the beautiful wife of a TB-stricken artist begs one of them to cure her brilliant, but amoral, husband.
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