Compact
1962
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Compact was a British television soap opera shown by the BBC between 1962 and 1965. The series was created by H...
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Acting
Robert Desmond
Robert Desmond (16 December 1922 – 2002) was a British film and television actor of the 1950s and 1960s.
He started out in juvenile roles, making his film debut in 1948's The Guinea Pig opposite Richard Attenborough. He appeared in a number of early television films such Boys in Brown, recreating the role of Spud Parker in the theatrical film version of 1949, again with Attenborough. He would appear opposite Attenborough one more time in The Great Escape (1963), as Griffith the Tailor. Other films include The Cockleshell Heroes (1955), Indiscreet (1958), The Ugly Duckling (1959), Sink the Bismarck! (1960), The Bulldog Breed (1960) and The Best of Enemies (1961).
Filmography
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The Great Escape
1963
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The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied...
The Army Game
1957
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Follows the exploits of Hut 29, a dysfunctional group of soldiers and their National Service conscription into...
Sink the Bismarck!
1960
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The story of the breakout of the German battleship Bismarck—accompanied by the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen—during...
Indiscreet
1958
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Anna Kalman is an accomplished actress who has given up hope of finding the man of her dreams. While talking ab...
The Best of Enemies
1961
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During World War II, a plane full of RAF fighter crashes in the Ethiopian desert and they are met upon by an en...
The Lady is a Square
1959
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Neagle stars as Frances Baring, a socialite widow attempting to keep her late husband's symphony orchestra goin...
The Cockleshell Heroes
1955
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During WW2, German ships are "safely" docked upriver at Bordeaux, but the British send a team of kayakers to at...
The Bulldog Breed
1960
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Norman Puckle, a well-meaning but clumsy grocer's assistant, can't seem to do anything right. After being rejec...
Too Young to Love
1960
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A court case ensues when a 47-year old man is caught with a 15-year old girl, and he claims he never knew she w...
The Square Peg
1958
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Norman Pitkin and Mr Grimsdale are council workmen mending the road outside an Army base when they come into co...
The Guinea Pig
1948
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A working-class boy wins a scholarship to a public school, as part of a post-World War Two experiment in bringi...
Boys in Brown
1949
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Jackie lives in poverty with his widowed mother. In a bid to escape poverty he gets involved in a robbery that...
These Dangerous Years
1957
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A Liverpool gang member wins a singing contest is then called up for National Service where he clashes with ano...
The Ugly Duckling
1959
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Henry Jekyll was always the outsider, a bungling and awkward buffoon, relegated to waiting for his invitation t...
Don't Ever Leave Me
1949
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Elderly crook Harry Denton, when challenged to prove he is "not past it," decides to kidnap Sheila Farlane, the...
Gaolbreak
1962
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An honest news agent realizes that his 2 sons are corrupt. When one criminal son is in jail, the other breaks h...