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Charles Lewsen

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1935-10-22
Marylebone, London, England, UK

Known For & Full Filmography17 Titles

#1Theatre 625

Drama Series - 1964, 16 episodes • as Prince Silver

7.2 / 10
Drama

Theatre 625 is a British television drama anthology series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC2 from 1964 to 1968. It was one of the first regular programmes in the line-up of the channel, and the title referred to its production and transmission being in the higher-definition 625-line format, which only BBC2 used at the time.

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#2Lovejoy

Drama Series - 1986, 16 episodes • as Vicar

7.4 / 10
ComedyDramaMystery

The adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East Anglia. Within the trade, he has a reputation as a “divvie”, a person with an almost supernatural powers for recognising exceptional items as well as distinguishing genuine antique from clever fakes or forgeries.

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#3The Story of Tracy Beaker

Drama Series - 2002, 16 episodes • as Arthur MacDonald

6.5 / 10
KidsFamilyAnimation

Tracy Beaker is a 10-year-old girl who has been placed in a children's home. Tracy makes new friends along the way and causes mischief wherever she goes.

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#4Worlds Beyond

Drama Series - 1986, 16 episodes • as Reverend Simpson

5.8 / 10
DramaSci-Fi & Fantasy

Worlds Beyond is a British television anthology broadcast on ITV from 1986 to 1988, based on real-life supernatural experiences described in archival documents from the Society for Psychical Research. A book was also released to accompany the series.

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#584 Charing Cross Road

Movie - 1987, 2h 15m • as The Print Buyer

7.2 / 10
DramaRomance

When a humorous script-reader in her New York apartment sees an ad in the Saturday Review of Literature for a bookstore in London that does mail order, she begins a very special correspondence and friendship with Frank Doel, the bookseller who works at Marks & Co., 84 Charing Cross Road.

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#6Great Expectations

Drama Series - 1989, 16 episodes • as Mr Wemmick

7.2 / 10
Drama

Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.

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#7Every Home Should Have One

Movie - 1970, 2h 15m • as Arthur Soames

4.9 / 10
Comedy

Teddy works for a large advertising company. Given the seemingly impossible task of selling frozen porridge, he decides to produce commercials that make the product seem sexy. This leads him to confrontation with the "Keep Television Clean" movement, of which his wife is a senior member.

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#8Rentadick

Movie - 1972, 2h 15m • as Scientist

4.2 / 10
Comedy

Armitage runs a chemical company that is on the verge of producing a gas that causes temporary disability. Clearly the military want it but it is also sought by a group of Japanese. Both Armitage and Madam Greenfly hire different people in the same detective agency to guard the gas and steal it respectively... confusion, double crosses and hilarity ensue...

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#9Die Kinder

Drama Series - 1990, 16 episodes • as Press Officer

6.8 / 10
Drama

Die Kinder is a six-part 1990 BBC Two political thriller written by Paula Milne and starring Miranda Richardson, with Frederic Forrest, Hans Kremer and Derek Fowlds in supporting roles. Sidonie Reiger sets out to rescue her kidnapped children. Enlisting the aid of private investigator Lomax, they find themselves caught between her husband's past as a a member of the Red Liberation Front, and the secret services of several countries.

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#10Alice in Wonderland

Movie - 1966, 2h 15m • as Foreman of the Jury

6.0 / 10
FamilyFantasyTV Movie

Alice in Wonderland (1966) is a BBC television play based on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. It was directed by Jonathan Miller, then most widely known for his appearance in the long-running satirical revue Beyond the Fringe.

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#11The Mountain and the Molehill

Movie - 1989, 2h 15m • as Mr Bellows

8.8 / 10
DramaHistoryWar

It is May 1944, two weeks before D-day. Britain stands poised for the long-awaited invasion of France - thousands of troops wait anxiously for the orders to come for embarkation. MI5 is horrified to discover the top-secret codewords for the invasion suddenly appearing as clues in the Daily Telegraph crossword. Two agents are immediately dispatched to confront the culprit, the headmaster of a boys' school in southern England.

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#12Mad Jack

Movie - 1970, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

9.0 / 10
DramaTV Movie

Play dealing with the life of British Army lieutenant Siegfried Sassoon, and his protests against the inhumanity of the First World War

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#13Stand Up, Nigel Barton

Movie - 1965, 2h 15m • as President of the Union

9.0 / 10
TV MovieDrama

Semi-autobiographical TV play by Dennis Potter, from the BBC's 'Wednesday Play' series. It deals with the experiences of Nigel Barton, a young man from a poor mining community who wins a scholarship to Oxford University. The villagers accuse him of snobbery, while the rich University students treat him like a peasant. Uncertain of which sphere he should be moving in, Nigel tries to reconcile himself with his proud but stubborn father, and also succeed at University, despite its pretentions which apall him.

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#14No Visible Scar

Movie - 1981, 2h 15m • as British Consul

8.8 / 10
DramaTV Movie

A wounded member of a rebel terrorist organisation is tended by an English nurse. She is imprisoned, interrogated, then released to face another form of interrogation.

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#15A Swarm in May

Movie - 1983, 2h 15m • as Mr. Sutton

6.5 / 10
Drama

John Owen returns to the Choir School at the start of term to find that he is the youngest Singing Boy in the school. This means he must also be Beekeeper - a traditional role. One of the traditional duties of the Beekeeper is to sing a solo in the Cathedral. Owen hates and dreads the prospect, so he persuades the smallest boy in the school, Iddingley, to take his place. Then, while exploring one of the Cathedral towers without permission, Owen finds something which makes him change his mind, and solves a mystery which has been baffling people for hundreds of years...

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#16The Case of Marcel Duchamp

Movie - 1984, 2h 15m • as Bex

7.0 / 10
DocumentaryDrama

A witty, feature-length drama-documentary in which Marcel Duchamp, who once compared his own mind to that of a master criminal, is investigated by Sherlock Holmes. Holmes comes out of retirement, and with the assistance of Dr. Watson, proceeds to delve into the mystery of Duchamp’s major work, the once-notorious Large Glass (The Bride Stripped Bare by the Bachelors, even) 1915-23.

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#17John Diamond

Movie - 1981, 2h 15m • as Uncle Turner

8.0 / 10
ThrillerFamilyDrama

William Jones runs away from home, haunted by the memory of his father. To lay this ghost, he must search the back streets of London for a man called Diamond.

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