Meredith Edwards

Meredith Edwards

Gwilym Meredith Edwards was a Welsh character actor and writer. He was born in mining village of Rhosllannerchrugog, near Wrexham, the son of a collier. He was educated at Ruabon Grammar School. He became an actor in 1938, firstly with the Welsh National Theatre Company, then the Liverpool Playhouse.  His film appearances include "A Run for Your Money" (1949), "The Blue Lamp" (1950), "The Magnet" (1950), "The Lavender Hill Mob" (1951), "The Cruel Sea" (1953), "The Great Game" (1953), "The Long Arm" (1956), "Dunkirk" (1958) and "Tiger Bay" (1959). He appeared as the murderous butler in the cult television series "Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)" in 1969, and as Tom in the cult children's science fiction serial "Sky" in 1975. He also played Richard Lloyd in the 1981 TV series "The Life and Times of David Lloyd George".

  • Popularity : 2.607
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1917-06-10
  • Place of Birth : Rhosllannerchrugog, Denbighshire, Wales, UK
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Meredith Edwards Movies

  • 1957
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    Town on Trial

    Town on Trial

    6.7 1957 HD

    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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  • 1977
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    Gulliver's Travels

    Gulliver's Travels

    5.6 1977 HD

    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...

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  • 1965
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    The Trial and Torture of Sir John Rampayne

    The Trial and Torture of Sir John Rampayne

    1 1965 HD

    An elderly right-wing politician is kidnapped, seemingly as part of a student prank. But his captors have a more alarming agenda.

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  • 1949
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    A Run for Your Money

    A Run for Your Money

    5.9 1949 HD

    Two Welsh coal-mining brothers win a trip to London to claim a monetary prize. They are supposed to meet a newspaper reporter who will be their...

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  • 1952
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    The Gambler and the Lady

    The Gambler and the Lady

    5.6 1952 HD

    A greedy but successful professional gambler wants to join the British Establishment when he falls in love with a blue-blooded lady. But first he...

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  • 1958
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    Dunkirk

    Dunkirk

    6.7 1958 HD

    A British Corporal in France finds himself responsible for the lives of his men when their officer is killed. He has to get them back to Britain...

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  • 1952
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    The Last Page

    The Last Page

    5.7 1952 HD

    A married bookstore owner is blackmailed after he makes a pass at his new sexy blonde clerk.

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  • 1950
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    The Magnet

    The Magnet

    6.2 1950 HD

    A classic Ealing comedy in which a young boy steals a magnet and becomes a hero.

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  • 1950
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    The Blue Lamp

    The Blue Lamp

    6.6 1950 HD

    P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the...

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  • 1954
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    Mask of Dust

    Mask of Dust

    4.5 1954 HD

    An idol of auto-racing fans attempts a comeback after serving in the Air Force. When his former rival lies dying in the hospital he must decide...

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  • 1956
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    Lost

    Lost

    7 1956 HD

    U.S. Embassy employee Lee Cochrane and his wife, Sue, receive a shock when they discover that their 18-month-old son, Simon, has disappeared in...

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  • 1958
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    Escapement

    Escapement

    4.1 1958 HD

    An insurance investigator tumbles onto a series of similar deaths, by brain hemorrhage, of patients of a psychiatric clinic in France where therapy...

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  • 1951
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    There Is Another Sun

    There Is Another Sun

    6 1951 HD

    Story of romance between a young boxer in fairground boxing booth and a chorus girl, and how 'Racer', a 'Wall of Death' rider in the same fairground,...

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  • 1956
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    Circus Friends

    Circus Friends

    1 1956 HD

    A group of circus children and their friends band together to save the show from financial disaster.

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  • 1971
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    Male Bait

    Male Bait

    1 1971 HD

    Apparently a British answer to the Boys in the Band

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  • 1954
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    Meet Mr. Malcolm

    Meet Mr. Malcolm

    5.2 1954 HD

    Celebrated crime writer Colin Knowles finds himself at the centre of a baffling real-life mystery when his estranged wife Louie asks for his help....

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  • 1953
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    A Day to Remember

    A Day to Remember

    7.167 1953 HD

    A group of men from a London pub are going on a darts team outing to Boulogne. Various members of the party have different reasons for going and get...

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  • 1951
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    Where No Vultures Fly

    Where No Vultures Fly

    5.6 1951 HD

    A true story about an Englishman working as a game warden in Kenya who is disgusted by the ongoing destruction of African wildlife, and decides to...

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  • 1954
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    Burnt Evidence

    Burnt Evidence

    5.5 1954 HD

    Duncan Lamont plays Jane Hylton's jealous husband. In a confrontation, Lamont accidentally shoots Hylton's lover. Convinced that he's a murderer, he...

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  • 1950
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    Midnight Episode

    Midnight Episode

    1 1950 HD

    A panhandler who opens car doors for people in London's theatre district finds himself involved in a deadly mystery when a corpse with a cash-stuffed...

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  • 1959
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    Tiger Bay

    Tiger Bay

    7.2 1959 HD

    In Tiger Bay, the docklands of Cardiff, rough-and-tumble street urchin Gillie witnesses the brutal killing of a young woman at the hands of visiting...

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  • 1960
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    The Trials of Oscar Wilde

    The Trials of Oscar Wilde

    6.4 1960 HD

    England, 1890s. The brutal and embittered Marquis of Queensberry, who believes that his youngest son, Bosie, has an inappropriate relationship with...

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  • 1994
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    A Christmas Reunion

    A Christmas Reunion

    6 1994 HD

    Follows the story of grandfather and his grandson and what their generations had to go through which in the end may not be that different.

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  • 1952
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    Girdle of Gold

    Girdle of Gold

    7.7 1952 HD

    The adulterous Mrs Griffiths' corset has, unbeknown to her, a fortune stashed in it by her drunken, money-loving husband.

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  • 1964
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    This Is My Street

    This Is My Street

    6.1 1964 HD

    A bored housewife has an affair with her mother's lodger.

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  • 1956
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    The Long Arm

    The Long Arm

    7 1956 HD

    Scotland Yard detectives attempt to solve a spate of safe robberies across England beginning with clues found at the latest burglary in London. The...

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  • 1953
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    The Cruel Sea

    The Cruel Sea

    6.9 1953 HD

    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....

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  • 1951
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    The Lavender Hill Mob

    The Lavender Hill Mob

    7.184 1951 HD

    A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipments of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country.

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  • 1961
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    Flame in the Streets

    Flame in the Streets

    5.8 1961 HD

    Flame in the Streets is a 1961 British drama film directed by Roy Ward Baker. Racial tensions manifest themselves at home, work and on the streets...

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  • 1954
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    Devil on Horseback

    Devil on Horseback

    1 1954 HD

    A boy pursues his ambition to be a jockey

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  • 1952
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    Gift Horse

    Gift Horse

    6.6 1952 HD

    Compton Bennett's war drama The Gift Horse follows the fortunes of ageing destroyer The Ballantrae and her crew from the time they come together in...

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  • 1953
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    The Conquest of Everest

    The Conquest of Everest

    7.053 1953 HD

    A documentary of the first successful expedition to the summit of Mount Everest. New Zealand's Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay climb Mount...

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  • 1992
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    The Winter Stallion

    The Winter Stallion

    5 1992 HD

    Dai Davies (Eric Wyn) is a Welshman running a cash-strapped farm in modern Wales and raising his orphaned granddaughter Gwen (Sian MacLean) with the...

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  • 1969
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    The Big Flame

    The Big Flame

    5 1969 HD

    After a prolonged industrial dispute in the Liverpool Docks, the striking workers reject management demands of a return to work and decide instead to...

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  • 1981
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    The Life and Times of David Lloyd George

    The Life and Times of David Lloyd George

    1 1981 HD

    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...

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  • 1954
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    Final Appointment

    Final Appointment

    5.5 1954 HD

    A pair of reporters try to discover the link between three unsolved, seemingly isolated murders. The only connection between them is they all took...

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  • 1962
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    Only Two Can Play

    Only Two Can Play

    5.8 1962 HD

    John Lewis is bored of his job and his wife. Then Liz, wife of a local councillor, sets her sights on him. But this is risky stuff in a Welsh valleys...

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  • 1954
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    To Dorothy, a Son

    To Dorothy, a Son

    5.6 1954 HD

    Under a complicated bequest from her uncle, Myrtle stands to inherit $2,000,000 if her ex-husband doesn't have any male heirs on the way, else he...

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  • 1966
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    The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery

    The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery

    5.8 1966 HD

    The all-girl school foil an attempt by train robbers to recover two and a half million pounds hidden in their school.

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  • 1958
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    Law and Disorder

    Law and Disorder

    6.2 1958 HD

    When Percy Brand, a habitual confidence trickster, keeps being sent down, he goes to great lengths to ensure that his son Colin, does not find out...

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  • 1954
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    Mad About Men

    Mad About Men

    6.1 1954 HD

    Flirtatious mermaid Miranda swaps places with a schoolteacher who has gone on holiday. All is well until she falls in love with a human.

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  • 1954
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    Mad About Men

    Mad About Men

    6.1 1954 HD

    Flirtatious mermaid Miranda swaps places with a schoolteacher who has gone on holiday. All is well until she falls in love with a human.

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  • 1953
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    The Great Game

    The Great Game

    6 1953 HD

    The wealthy chairman of First Division Football Club, Burnville United, makes an unethical approach to a star player of another club, and the ensuing...

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  • 1956
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    Peril for the Guy

    Peril for the Guy

    6.5 1956 HD

    Story of a group of children's successful efforts to bring to book a gang of oil men intent on stealing valuable invention.

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  • 1992
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    Under Milk Wood

    Under Milk Wood

    4 1992 HD

    A poet's tale of a day in the lives of the villagers of a Welsh fishing town of Llareggub.

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  • 1960
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    Doctor in Love

    Doctor in Love

    5.5 1960 HD

    Doctors Burke and Hare leave the confines of St Swithins for the world of general practice, stopping off on the way as patients at the Foulness...

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  • 1992
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    The Old Devils

    The Old Devils

    1 1992 HD

    An adaptation of the novel by Kingsley Amis about a group of university friends reunited in retirement. Alun Weaver has found success as a celebrated...

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  • 1965
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    Gideon's Way

    Gideon's Way

    6.8 1965 HD

    Gideon's Way is a British television crime series made by ITC Entertainment in 1964/65, based on the novels by John Creasey. The series was made at...

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  • 1962
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    The Saint

    The Saint

    7.296 1962 HD

    Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those...

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  • 1968
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    The Ronnie Barker Playhouse

    The Ronnie Barker Playhouse

    1 1968 HD

    The Ronnie Barker Playhouse was a series of six comedy half hours showcasing the talents of Ronnie Barker. All were broadcast by...

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  • 1959
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    Interpol Calling

    Interpol Calling

    6.7 1959 HD

    The adventures of Interpol policemen Duval and Mornay as they fought against international drug-running, homicide, robbery and forgery.

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  • 1994
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    A Mind to Kill

    A Mind to Kill

    1 1994 HD

    A Mind to Kill is a police detective series set in Wales, UK. It was developed from a 1991 pilot which starred Philip Madoc as DCI Bain, and Hywel...

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  • 1959
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    One Step Beyond

    One Step Beyond

    5.6 1959 HD

    Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond is an American anthology series created by Merwin Gerard. The original series ran for three seasons on ABC from...

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  • 1955
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    The Adventures of Robin Hood

    The Adventures of Robin Hood

    6.4 1955 HD

    The legendary character Robin Hood and his band of merry men in Sherwood Forest and the surrounding vicinity. While some episodes dramatised the...

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  • 1959
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    No Hiding Place

    No Hiding Place

    3.7 1959 HD

    No Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by Associated-Rediffusion for the ITV network between 16...

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  • 1975
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    Sky

    Sky

    5.5 1975 HD

    Sky is a mystically-oriented children's science fantasy television serial made for ITV by HTV and broadcast in seven parts from April 7 to May 14,...

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  • 1984
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    The District Nurse

    The District Nurse

    5.5 1984 HD

    The District Nurse is a British television series, produced by BBC Wales and shown on BBC One between 1984 and 1987. The series was a period drama...

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  • 1955
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    ITV Play of the Week

    ITV Play of the Week

    4 1955 HD

    A UK anthology series of single plays from major playwrights old and new. It ran from 1955 to 1974, producing about five hundred ninety-minute...

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  • 1962
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    Zero One

    Zero One

    6 1962 HD

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  • 1971
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    Kindly Leave The Kerb

    Kindly Leave The Kerb

    1 1971 HD

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  • 1974
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    The Inheritors

    The Inheritors

    1 1974 HD

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  • 1964
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    Detective

    Detective

    1 1964 HD

    A BBC anthology series featuring adaptations of detective stories over 45 episodes in three seasons that ran from 1964 to 1969. As with many BBC...

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  • 1961
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    Flower of Evil

    Flower of Evil

    1 1961 HD

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  • 1962
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    The Saint

    The Saint

    7.296 1962 HD

    Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those...

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  • 1960
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    Maigret

    Maigret

    6.9 1960 HD

    BBC series based on the novels by Georges Simenon which starred Rupert Davies as Inspector Maigret, a French police detective who preferred to watch...

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  • 1978
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    Hawkmoor

    Hawkmoor

    1 1978 HD

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