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Richard Wilson

Richard Wilson

Richard Wilson OBE (born Ian Carmichael Wilson; 9 July 1936) is a Scottish actor, theatre director and broadcaster. He played Victor Meldrew in the BBC sitcom One Foot in the Grave. A later role was as Gaius, the court physician of Camelot, in the BBC drama Merlin.

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Sweetly It Turns (2023)

A kitchen-sink drama following the lives of a working-class family in Wolverhampton as they deal with change and the passing of time. ...

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G♭ (2022)

84-year-old cellist Ceri has lost his husband to cancer and his ability to play to a debilitating stroke. His dull life is spent in solitude, save for the interruptions of agency carers and the solace of his iPad. Seizing the opportunity that a night-time ...

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Sherlock Gnomes (2018)

Garden gnomes Gnomeo & Juliet recruit renown detective Sherlock Gnomes to investigate the mysterious disappearance of other garden ornaments. ...

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A Midsummer Night's Dream (2016)

At the tyrannical court of Athens, pitiless dictator Theseus plans his wedding to Hippolyta, a prisoner of war, while young Hermia is sentenced to death by her own father for loving the wrong man. Meanwhile, in the town below, an amateur theatre group rehe ...

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Coming Oot! A Fabulous History of Gay Scotland (2015)

A varied history of gay people and Scotland. ...

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Danny & the Human Zoo (2015)

A dramatised account of the early life and career of impressionist, comedian and actor Lenny Henry. ...

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Richard Wilson - Both Feet In the Army (2013)

Former National Service Conscript - actor, Richard Wilson - takes a light hearted look at this taste of the army, experienced by so many young men after the war. 'Both Feet in the Army!' illustrates the trials and tribulations, the laughs and lunacies, of ...

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Gnomeo & Juliet (2011)

A version of Shakespeare's play, set in the world of warring indoor and outdoor gnomes. Garden gnomes Gnomeo and Juliet have as many obstacles to overcome as their quasi namesakes when they are caught up in a feud between neighbors. But with plastic pink f ...

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The One Ronnie (2010)

One of Britain's most enduring and best-loved comics, Ronnie Corbett, turned 80 in December 2010. In this brand new comedy sketch show, the octogenarian comic legend appears alongside some of the biggest names in British comedy, in sketches featuring every ...

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Reichenbach Falls (2007)

A psychological thriller, set in the heart of Edinburgh and featuring the underbelly of the capital city, Reichenbach Falls tells the story of hard-boiled detective Jim Buchan whose life starts to unravel as he investigates a 100-year-old murder case in th ...

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A Harlot's Progress (2006)

Drama looking at artist William Hogarth and his relationship with the prostitute that inspired his most famous piece. ...

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Love and Other Disasters (2006)

Flighty Emily "Jacks" Jackson works for the British edition of Vogue magazine. Rather than pursue a relationship, Jacks regularly hooks up with her devoted ex-boyfriend, James Wildstone, and lives with Peter Simon, a gay screenwriter. When Jacks meets Arge ...

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The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends (2006)

Classic tales of Peter Rabbit."Once upon a time there were four little rabbits, and their names were Flopsy, Mopsy, Cotton-tail and Peter." So begins the first of Original Peter Rabbit TalesTM, which have been translated into 35 languages and have achieved ...

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King of Fridges (2004)

A play about an ambitious young manager of a Dixons-style electrical warehouse who gets saddled with a 65-year-old re-trainee on a frenetic bank holiday. ...

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Jeffrey Archer: The Truth (2002)

A satirical look at the 'secret' TRUE life of Jeffrey Archer. The Truth, the whole truth and everything BUT the truth. ...

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Dick Whittington: The ITV Pantomime (2002)

An adaptation of the folktale about a lonely boy, his beloved cat, and the hard decisions that come with their adventures. ...

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Women Talking Dirty (2001)

A lively, outspoken single mother develops an unlikely friendship with a shy cartoonist. ...

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Ted & Ralph (1998)

One-off comedy drama featuring characters from award-winning BBC sketch series 'The Fast Show'. Ralph Mayhew (Charlie Higson) lives alone in a faded stately home. His only friend is Ted (Paul Whitehouse), the elderly Irish estate worker. But their way of l ...

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The Man Who Knew Too Little (1997)

An American gets a ticket for an audience participation game in London, then gets involved in a case of mistaken identity. As an international plot unravels around him, he thinks it's all part of the act. ...

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Lord of Misrule (1996)

Comedy drama. Retired Lord Chancellor Bill Webster decides to sell his memoirs to a tabloid newspaper in order to save his crumbling Cornish house. The Prime Minister wants to stop him as he believes the government will fall if his book is published. One o ...

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Butter (1994)

Jane has an eating problem. She has bought and prepared a feast for an unseen date who calls in sick and sends her spiraling round London, visiting friends and revisiting old habits. ...

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One Foot in the Grave: One Foot in the Algarve (1993)

The Meldrews go on holiday to Portugal with Mrs Warboys, who is hoping for romance with her penpal Alfonso. Photographer Martin Trout follows them there, believing they have a roll of film that belongs to him. ...

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The Vision Thing (1993)

In the run-up to a General Election, the British Prime Minister thinks he is receiving messages from God. ...

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Selling Hitler (1993)

In 1981, Gerd Heidemann, a war correspondent and reporter with the German magazine Stern, makes what he believes is the literary and historical scoop of the century: the personal diaries of Adolf Hitler. Over the next two years, Heidemann and the senior ma ...

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Soft Top Hard Shoulder (1993)

Eight years ago, Gavin, the artistic son of a Scots-Italian ice-cream dynasty, turned his back on Glasgow and moved south to London to make his name illustrating children's books. Now, frustrated and broke, his Uncle Sal appears with an offer. Gavin's fath ...

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The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Peter Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny (1992)

"The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends", episode 1. The mischievous adventure of Peter Rabbit and his cousin, Benjamin Bunny in Mr. McGregor's garden. ...

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Carry On Columbus (1992)

Christopher Columbus believes he can find an alternative route to the far East and persuades the King and Queen of Spain to finance his expedition... ...

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Unnatural Pursuits (1992)

An English playwright sacrifices his health waiting for his play's make-or-break opening on Broadway. ...

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Kremlin Farewell (1990)

A drama of intrigue and betrayal in Stalin's Russia. Stepan grows up in an orphanage, learning to love Stalin as 'a father to all children'. He retains disturbing memories of the disappearance of his real father and, when a strange message is delivered to ...

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Fellow Traveller (1989)

In the Golden Age of Hollywood, two men had it all; one was a top screenwriter, the other a film idol. But when the witch hunts of McCarthyism swept into Tinseltown, it drove one out of the country and the other to suicide. ...

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A Dry White Season (1989)

During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody. ...

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How to Get Ahead in Advertising (1989)

Pressure from his boss and a skin-cream client produces a talking boil on a British adman's neck. ...

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The Four Minute Mile (1988)

For two brilliant young athletes - Roger Bannister of England and John Landy of Australia - the 1952 Helsinki Olympics present an exciting challenge. But events help set them on the path to something even more memorable than an Olympic gold medal - the rac ...

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Byrne About Byrne (1988)

In this diverse and inventive autobiography, painter and author John Byrne travels from his youth, through his art school years to the period of his stage and TV plays, and on to his death, sometime in the future. With him is Robbie Coltrane as himself an ...

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Normal Service (1988)

It's General Election day 1964, and the resources of Forth and Clyde Television are under stress. Too many shows want too many things done too quickly. Some of the design and graphics staff are intent on not getting involved. Others won't survive the strai ...

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Prick Up Your Ears (1987)

When the young, attractive Joe Orton meets the older, more introverted Kenneth Halliwell at drama school, he befriends the kindred spirit and they start an affair. As Orton becomes more comfortable with his sexuality and starts to find success with his wri ...

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Foreign Body (1986)

Banerjee stars as Ram Das, a jobless Indian man who, tired of life in Calcutta, steals money from his father in order to afford a passage to Britain and while there, falls in love with a white woman. ...

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Whoops Apocalypse (1986)

When a small British owned island in the Caribbean is invaded and the world's most dangerous terrorist kidnaps a member of the Royal family, the countdown to World War 3 begins. If anyone can prevent the oncoming apocalypse it's the American President, but ...

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Murder by the Book (1986)

Agatha Christie's agents propose that it's time for her to publish the manuscript she wrote thirty-five years earlier, a novel in which she finally kills off her most famous creation. And it's not an entirely sad occasion. "That wretched little man," she s ...

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Poppyland (1985)

He is a respectable pillar of London society who yearns for an idyllic existence away from the noise and the smoke. She feels hemmed in by the confines of an isolated fishing village and dreams of the bright lights, and even brighter people, of the great m ...

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A Passage to India (1984)

Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator. ...

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Those Glory Glory Days (1983)

Girls growing up in 1960-61 London develop a passion for Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, the first British team in the 20th century to win the English league and FA Cup "double". Twenty years later, one of the girls tracks down players of the '60-'61 Spur ...

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Virginia Fly is Drowning (1981)

Secure in her suburban home, Virginia Fly dreams of a life of unbridled passion and romance. She feels her fantasies are about to become reality when she is asked to take part in a TV documentary about pre-marital love - a subject about which she is sadly ...

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Shaping Up (1980)

Chrissie and Colum are to be married tomorrow. Happy? ' I feel sick', says Colum. ' I feel sick', says Chrissie-but there could be another reason for that. ...

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Pasmore (1980)

Colin Pasmore tests his strength against his family ties but finds them stronger than he ever imagined. ...

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Bet Your Life (1976)

Like alcoholism, gambling is a disease. Ches, a compulsive gambler, is sent for medical help. A wonder drug perhaps? Or hypnosis maybe? Ches finds that his psychiatrist has other ideas. ...

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Through the Night (1975)

The play tells the story of Christine Potts, who undergoes an unexpected mastectomy, and struggles to cope with the aftermath and the deficiencies of her post-operative care. ...

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The Trouble with 2B (1972)

It isn't really the fault of the children in 2B that their efforts to be helpful end in disaster. ...

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The Trouble with 2b: Part Five, Thirty Years Younger (1972)

A series of six short films concerning the adventures of form 2B and their inventive science master, Mr Potter ...

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The Trouble with 2b: Part Four, Parents' Day (1972)

A series of six short films concerning the adventures of form 2B and their inventive science master, Mr Potter ...

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The Trouble with 2b: Part Two, On the Air (1972)

A series of six short films concerning the adventures of form 2B and their inventive science master, Mr Potter ...

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The Trouble with 2b: Part One, Happy Days (1972)

A series of six short films concerning the adventures of form 2B and their inventive science master, Mr Potter ...

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The Day They Buried Cleaver (1970)

The Chief Constable of a grimy northern town runs it his particular way with all natural human failings, bending the rules for the benefit of the majority. According to the book he is wrong, blatantly wrong. Now his nephew, Police Constable Tom Corsby is o ...

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Junket 89 (1970)

Science-fiction comedy: Junket, a schoolboy, borrows an apparatus invented by the absent-minded science master for transporting matter - and, by accident, makes it work... ...

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The People’s Jack (1970)

A musical version of the life of the 17th Century English radical politician, John Wilkes, who campaigned for the right for voters to determine their representatives, not the House of Commons. ...

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Movies Made By Richard Wilson (5)

Changing Step (1990)

Spring 1917: the privileged world of Sorn Castle is upside down, its stately rooms full of amputees from the Western Front. While the local aristocracy makes a first attempt at nursing, a romance blossoms. ...

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A Wholly Healthy Glasgow (1988)

A fresh-faced gym instructor, Murdo Caldwell, threatens the cosy lifestyle established in the seedy Adonis Health Club in Glasgow, where, up until now, sex 'n' sleaze have been the order of the day. Charley and Donald, who have established a comfortable li ...

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Under the Hammer (1984)

All seems ready for a major sale of impressionist paintings to be graced by a royal visit. But panic erupts in the boardroom when the pedigree of the Van Gogh - to be sold by the Russians - is questioned. When it causes a scene between the porters, Les and ...

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The Remainder Man (1982)

Jack is obsessed with nuclear armageddon and takes his wife, Ellen, and their children into a fallout shelter in their garden to wait out the atomic bomb. ...

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Commitments (1982)

Three-day weeks, strikes and the lights going out - the winter of 1973-4 finally spurs Hugh into political action. But is his new-found zeal going to be enough for the unexpected demands the new life makes of him? ...

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