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Bill Gavin

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1915-01-08
South Shields, Tyne and Wear, England, UK

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#1Play for Today

Drama Series - 1970, 16 episodes • as Brian

6.6 / 10
Drama

Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.

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#2Casualty

Drama Series - 1986, 16 episodes • as Alfred MacIntyre

6.2 / 10
DramaSoap

Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.

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#3Peak Practice

Drama Series - 1993, 16 episodes • as Alf

6.5 / 10
Drama

Peak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town in the Derbyshire Peak District — and the doctors who worked there. It ran on ITV from 10 May 1993 to 30 January 2002 and was one of their most successful series at the time. It originally starred Kevin Whately as Dr Jack Kerruish, Amanda Burton as Dr Beth Glover and Simon Shepherd as Dr Will Preston, though the roster of doctors would change many times over the course of the series. Cardale was based on the Staffordshire village of Longnor for the final series, but was previously based in the Derbyshire village of Crich, although certain scenes were filmed at other nearby Derbyshire towns and villages, most notably Matlock, Belper and Ashover.

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#4Playhouse

Drama Series - 1974, 16 episodes • as Dr. Halliday

7.0 / 10
Drama

A one-hour anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas produced by the BBC.

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#5ITV Saturday Night Theatre

Drama Series - 1969, 16 episodes • as Potts

7.0 / 10

Anthology series of dramatic works.

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#6Dempsey and Makepeace

Drama Series - 1985, 16 episodes • as Jimmy-le-Horn

6.6 / 10
Action & AdventureDrama

Dempsey and Makepeace is a British television crime drama made by London Weekend Television for ITV, created and produced by Ranald Graham. The leading roles were played by Michael Brandon and Glynis Barber, who later married each other on 18 November 1989. The series combined elements of previous series such as the mis-matching of British and American crime-fighters from different classes as seen in The Persuaders! and the action of The Professionals.

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#72Point4 Children

Drama Series - 1991, 16 episodes • as The old man

7.3 / 10
Comedy

They're just your average family. Stressed mum Bill, daft dad Ben, and two troublesome teens. Plus just a few crazy ideas, escapades and mishaps. The classic 90s sitcom.

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#8Centre Play

Drama Series - 1973, 16 episodes • as Wullie

7.0 / 10
Drama

Anthology series of half hour plays produced in BBC's Television Centre's studios.

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#9Reilly: Ace of Spies

Drama Series - 1983, 16 episodes • as Timkins

7.0 / 10
CrimeDrama

Reilly, Ace of Spies is a 1983 television miniseries dramatising the life of Sidney Reilly, a Russian Jew who became one of the greatest spies ever to work for the British. Among his exploits, in the early 20th-century, were the infiltration of the German General Staff in 1917 and a near-overthrow of the Bolsheviks in 1918. His reputation with women was as legendary as his genius for espionage.

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#10Edge of Darkness

Drama Series - 1985, 16 episodes • as Golf Club Porter

8.1 / 10
CrimeDrama

Environmental activist Emma Craven is murdered in front of her father, local police inspector Ronald Craven. Investigating the death leads him through a haunting revelation of the murkiness of British nuclear policy of the 1980s.

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#11House on the Hill

Drama Series - 1981, 16 episodes • as Henry

8.0 / 10
Drama

A series of six plays centred on a house in Glasgow, from 1878 to the 1980s.

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#12Jabberwocky

Movie - 1977, 2h 15m • as Old Man with Petition

6.0 / 10
FantasyComedy

After the death of his father, young Dennis Cooper goes to town where he has to pass several adventures. The town and the whole kingdom is threatened by a terrible monster called 'Jabberwocky'. Will Dennis make his fortune? Is anyone brave enough to defeat the monster?

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#13The Love School

Drama Series - 1975, 16 episodes • as Mr. Gray

8.8 / 10
Drama

The Love School is a BBC television drama miniseries originally broadcast from 22 January to 26 February 1975 about the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. The series was written by John Hale, Ray Lawler, Robin Chapman, and John Prebble, and directed by Piers Haggard, John Glenister and Robert Knights. The drama was a significant influence on the subsequent 2009 series Desperate Romantics. It was also the basis of the historical novel of the same name by Hale.

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#14Adam Smith

Drama Series - 1972, 16 episodes • as Bill Conn

8.5 / 10
Drama

A religious drama series in which a Scots minister, following his wife's death, questions the purpose of his local ministry but finds it in his spiritual work for the community.

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#15Clay, Smeddum and Greenden

Movie - 1976, 2h 15m • as Doctor

7.0 / 10
DramaTV Movie

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. ‘Smeddum’ is the story of a matriarch’s attempt to control her brood. ‘Greenden’ is the story of a city woman moving to the country with her husband.

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#16Dalhousie's Luck

Movie - 1980, 2h 15m • as Dr Halliday

8.8 / 10
DramaTV Movie

Our gamble is over, Dalhousie. You'll walk at dawn tomorrow as agreed, but in case you've no mind to return, there's one fact might persuade you. On what you do hangs not only your life but hers .

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#17The Flipside of Dominick Hide

Movie - 1980, 2h 15m • as Brian

5.0 / 10
Sci-FiTV Movie

Dominick Hide, a time traveller from the year 2130, is studying the London transport system of 1980. Time travellers are supposed to be observers, and are strictly forbidden to land their flying saucers. One time traveller who broke this rule accidentally killed a dog, changing history and causing many future people to disappear. Inspired by his Great Aunt Mavis, Dominick decides to find his great great grandfather. He begins to land in 1980, where his strange clothes and speech make him seem an eccentric oddball. His quest brings him into contact with beautiful boutique owner Jane, and they fall in love. As Dominick's visits become more frequent and more prolonged, he increasingly risks his indiscretion being discovered by his boss, Caleb Line, and every moment he spends in the past increases the danger that he will catastrophically change the future

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#18Staggered

Movie - 1994, 2h 15m • as Old Man

5.3 / 10
Comedy

Very much in love, Neil's wedding plans are sabotaged, beginning when he is abandoned, naked, on a Scottish island. A road trip ensues, with Neil encountering many obstacles as he makes his way to London for what he believes is to be his wedding day. Or is it?

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#19Soft Top Hard Shoulder

Movie - 1993, 2h 15m • as Man in Tiny Car

6.3 / 10
ComedyDrama

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 father has sold the family business and to get his share of the proceeds, Gavin must return home for his father's birthday party. Swayed by the money, he sets off north and picks up a hitchhiker with a secret. Their journey is difficult but ultimately rewarding.

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#20Tis' the Season to be Jolly

Movie - 1993, 2h 15m • as Jack Bannister

10.0 / 10
Comedy

Christmas is not a jolly time for the Rev. I.M. Jolly. His wife has gone home to his mother, his parishioners are revolting, His Father Christmas has the kids in tears and his turkey is frozen solid. Is it surprising that the Swear Box is full? In this hilarious Christmas Special, the inimitable Rikki Fulton takes the outrageous, cynical, Doomsday-faced Jolly on a disaster-filled seasonal odyssey bringing mayhem and mirth from Christmas Eve to Hogmanay.

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#21A Wily Couple

Movie - 1976, 2h 15m • as Wullie

8.8 / 10

An elderly couple try to decide if a young woman who has come to visit would make a suitable wife for their son.

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#22Shoot for the Sun

Movie - 1987, 2h 15m • as Old Man in Lift

7.0 / 10
DramaCrime

Set in the bleak backdrop of Edinburgh a low level drug dealer strives for making a living and surviving the natural elements of such an environment day to day.

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