Peter Vaughan

All Movies of Peter Vaughan

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  9.2
  Game of Thrones (TV Series)
  TV Series (2011-Today). An adaptation of George R. R. Martin's epic fantasy series "A Song of Ice and Fire," in which kings, queens, knights and renegades use swords and magic to battle for the throne. Seven noble famili...
  Character:  Maester Aemon 11 episodes, 2011-2015

   2011

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  6.0
  Death at a Funeral
  On the morning of their father's funeral, the family and friends of the deceased each arrive with his or her own roiling anxieties. Son Daniel knows he will have to face his flirty, blow-hard, famous-novelist brother, Robert, who'...
   2007

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  Care (S)
  Mali visits the homes of frail elderly people and provides the care they can no longer give to themselves. But when he enters the home of a new client'Archie he finds neither he, nor his help, are welcome.
   2006

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  The Queen of Sheba's Pearls
  Set in post-war England, a mysterious woman arrives at the Prettys' rural family home on the eve of young Jack's 16th birthday. Her remarkable likeness to a Pretty family member who tragically died in an accident 8 years ago both ...
   2004

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  7.0
  The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
  "The Life and Death of Peter Sellers" traces the British comic's turbulent rise from popular BBC radio performer to one of the world's most gifted comedic actors. Propelled by an overly possessive mother, Sellers struggl...
   2004

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  6.7
  The mother
  May (Anne Reid) is an ordinary grandmother from the suburbs. When her husband dies, she recedes into the background of her busy, metropolitan children's lives. Stuck in an unfamiliar city, May fears that her life is more or less o...
  Character: Toots

   2003

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  5.5
  Canone inverso - making love
  Costanza is drinking a beer in a Prague pub, a summer night in 1968, while a violinist enters and starts playing a "canone inverso" for her. It is not a case, that music and that violin have a story behind that could con...
   2000

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  6.0
  Lorna Doone (TV)
  Amelia Warner is Lorna, the beautiful young brunette 'queen' of the feral Doone clan in this latest adaptation of R.D. Blackmore's novel. The once noble line now lives out of a swamp fortress and preys off the local farmers and tr...
   2000

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  6.7
  Hotel Splendide
  The Hotel Splendide is on a remote and cold island, accessible only by a once-a-month ferry. It's a dark and dreary spa created by the late Dame Blanche, whose grown children now run the hotel according to her specificiations, ser...
  Character: Morton Blanche

   2000

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  Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters (TV Miniseries)
  Lt. Hornblower and his mates are sent to accompany a doomed royalist invasion of revolutionary France.
   1999

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  6.8
  An Ideal Husband
  Sir Robert Chiltern Chiltern (Jeremy Northam) is a successful Government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs Cheveley appears in London with damning evidence of a past misdeed. Sir Robert tur...
  Character: Phipps

   1999

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  7.1
  Les Miserables
  Liam Neeson stars as Jean Valjean, a heartless convict who is transformed by a single act of mercy. Uma Thurman is Fantine, the vulnerable prostitute who begs Valjean to raise her only child, Cosette (Claire Danes). And Oscar-winn...
  Character: Bishop

   1998

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  Our Mutual Friend (TV Miniseries)
  The tongues of London high society gossips begin to wag when John Harmon --a young man whose inheritance depended on his marrying a woman he had never met-- is found dead in the River Thames.
   1998

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  7.5
  The Legend of 1900
  On the 1st of January in 1900, Danny Boodmann (Bill Nunn), the mechanic of the transatlantic liner Virginian bound for America, finds an abandoned baby on board and decides to keep him. Nicknamed Novecento (1900), the boy grows up...
  Character: Negoziante

   1998

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  6.0
  Face
   1997

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  7.4
  Our Friends in the North (TV Miniseries)
  A nine part series depicting the varying fortunes of four friends - Nicky, Geordie, Mary and Tosker - from the optimistic times of 1964 to the uncertainties of 1995. Taking nine pivotal years (1964, 1966, 1967, 1970, 1974, 1979, 1...
  Character:  Felix Hutchinson 8 episodes, 1996

   1996

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  4.9
  The Secret Agent
  In the late 19th century, London serves as a sanctuary for an array of political exiles, from anarchists to refugees. Verloc, a double agent, maintains his lifestyle by spying for the Russian government while feeding tips to Chief...
  Character: The Driver

   1996

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  6.9
  The Crucible
  A small group of teen girls in 1692 Salem, Massachusetts caught in an innocent conjuring of love potions to catch young men are forced to tell lies that Satan had invaded them and forced them to participate in the rites and are th...
   1996

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  Dandelion Dead (TV Miniseries)
  This is a dramatisation of the true story of Major Herbert Rowse Armstrong, a solicitor and magistrate's clerk who lived in the small Welsh town of Hay-on-Wye. In 1921 he was arrested and charged with poisoning his domineering wif...
  Character:  Dr. Hinks 4 episodes, 1994

   1994

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  6.2
  Fatherland (TV)
  Thriller based on the premise that Hitler won the Second World War. It's 1964 and Germany rules Europe. When a number of high ranking Third Reich officials are found dead, a detective begins to investigate. What he discovers could...
   1994

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  5.4
  Heart of Darkness (TV)
  A trading company manager travels up an African river to find a missing outpost head and discovers the depth of evil in humanity's soul.
  Character: Director

   1993

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  8.5
  The Remains of the Day
  A rule bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by the arrival of a housekeeper who falls in love with him in post-WWI Britain. The possibility of romance and his master's cultivatio...
  Character: William Stevens

   1993

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  King of the Wind
  In 1727, an Arab colt is born with the signs of the wheat ear and the white spot on his heel: evil and good. And thus begins the life of Sham. He is a gift to the King of France, through a series of adventures with his faithful st...
   1990

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  Chillers (TV Series)
  Based on Patricia Highsmith short stories. Displaying a sinister atmosphere, delving into the darkest depths of human nature. Episode 1: The Cat Brought It In Episode 2: Sauce for the Goose Episode 3: Old Folks at Home Episode 4:...
  Character:  Winston Greeves 1 episode, 1990

   1990

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  6.8
  The Bourne Identity (TV)
  TV miniseries. A man is washed ashore the beach of a small French village during a heavy storm. A retired doctor takes care of the unconscious stranger. When the mysterious man recovers, he cannot remember anything - He does not k...
  Character:  Fritz Koenig 2 episodes, 1988

   1988

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  Sins (TV Miniseries)
  TV Miniseries. 3 Episodes. Young Helene Junot witnesses the death of her mother at the hands of Nazis. Separated from her brother, Edmund, by the war, Helene goes to work at the chateau of the Count De Ville. There she falls in lo...
   1986

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  5.5
  Haunted Honeymoon
  Larry Abbot and Vickie Pearle - the sweethearts of the 30s airwaves are getting married. There's only one flaw in their happiness. Somebody has decided to rid Larry of all his phobias. So the nuptials are set for a vast gothic man...
  Character: Francis Abbot Sr.

   1986

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  7.0
  Bleak House (TV Miniseries)
  At the court of Chancery, the Jarndyce and Jarndyce case grinds on for years with no end in sight. Entangled in the lawsuit are a growing number of innocent victims: Ada Clare and Richard Carstone, whose inheritance is gradually b...
   1985

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  8.2
  Brazil
  The film centers on Sam Lowry, a young man trying to find a woman who appears in his dreams while he is working in a mind-numbing job and living a life in a small apartment, set in a dystopian world in which there is an over-relia...
  Character: Mr. Helpmann

   1985

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  The Razor’s Edge
  Based on William Somerset Maugham's novel, THE RAZOR'S EDGE follows a young man's search for identity. After experiencing WWI, veteran Larry Darrell (Bill Murray) seeks spiritual peace and recovery. After leaving his fiancee (Cath...
   1984

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  Forbidden
  In Berlin in the early 1940s, romance is forbidden between young countess Nina von Halder (Bisset) who is studying veterinary medicine and a Fritz Friedländer (Prochnow), a man she meets at the home of a former professor. But the...
  Character: Major Stauffel

   1984

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  Jamaica Inn (TV)
  The respected squire of a quiet Cornish village is in reality the leader of a gang of murderous pirates who attack passing ships, kill their crews and steal their cargoes.
   1983

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  7.1
  Time Bandits
  A young boy's wardrobe contains a time hole. Through this hole an assortment of short people (i.e. dwarfs) come while escaping from their master, the supreme being. They take Kevin with them on their adventures through time from N...
  Character: Winston the Ogre

   1981

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  7.1
  The French Lieutenant's Woman
  A film is being made of a story, set in 19th century England, about Charles, a biologist who's engaged to be married, but who falls in love with outcast Sarah, whose melancholy makes her leave him after a short, but passionate aff...
  Character: Mr. Freeman

   1981

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  Fox (TV Series)
  TV Series (1980- ). 13 episodes.
   1980

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  Porridge
  This prison comedy is based on the popular British television series of the same name. Long time Slade prison inmate Fletcher is ordered by Grouty to arrange a football match between the prisoners and an all-star celebrity team. F...
   1979

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  6.9
  Zulu Dawn
  In 1879 South Africa, the administrators of the British Cape Colony have designs to eliminate the Zulus as a hindrance to their colonial economy. To that end, the British present King Cetshwayo with an impossible ultimatum to prov...
  Character: Q.S.M. Bloomfield

   1979

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  Shelley (TV Series)
  TV Series (1979-1983). 39 episodes. Long-running British sitcom about James Shelley - an educated, sardonic, permanently unemployed 'professional freelance layabout'. Following his battles with authority, the tax-man, his landlady...
   1979

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  Fall of Eagles (TV Miniseries)
  A 13-part British television drama aired by the BBC in 1974. The series portrays historical events from 1848 to 1918, dealing with the ruling dynasties Austria-Hungary (the Habsburgs), Germany (the Hohenzollerns), and Russia (the
  Character:  Isvolsky 1 episode, 1974

   1974

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  Porridge (TV Series)
  Set in Slade Prison, "Porridge" documents the life of Norman Stanley Fletcher, a habitual criminal. Fletcher is a smart, witty, cunning and loveable character. He shares his cell with Godber a first time inmate who he im...
   1974

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  Symptoms
  Character: Brady

   1974

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  6.5
  The MacKintosh Man
  Joseph Rearden takes the fall for a robbery and winds up in the Scrubs. From there he escapes in the company of a convicted spy and is taken to a remote manor at an unknown location where he is kept isolated. He overpowers his gua...
  Character: Brunskill

   1973

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  BBC2 Playhouse (TV Series)
  TV Series (1973-1983). 106 episodes
  Character:  Mr. Hugh Peter 1 episode, 1981

   1973

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  6.3
  Massacre in Rome
  In the Nazi occupied city of Rome, an assault on an SS brigade draws retaliation from the military governship. "Massacre in Rome" is the true story of how this partisan attack led to the mass execution of Italian nationa...
  Character: Gen. Albert Kesselring

   1973

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  6.0
  The Blockhouse
  During D-day several people become trapped while hiding in a bunker, when heavy shelling collapses it. They have plenty of food and water so they decide to wait for rescuers. And so they wait year, after year, after year.
  Character: Aufret

   1973

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  6.5
  Savage Messiah
  Based on the book of the same name by H.S. Ede, eccentric director Ken Russell created this biographical drama of a great early 20th century artist who died tragically young. Henri Gaudier (Scott Anthony) is only 18 years old, a s...
   1972

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  6.0
  The Persuaders!
  English This classic television series brings together two men from completely different worlds. On one hand is Lord Brett Sinclair (Roger Moore), a refined aristocrat with impeccable manners; on the other is Danny Wilde (Tony Cu...
   1971

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  8.1
  Straw Dogs
  Upon moving to Britain to get away from American violence, astrophysicist David Sumner and his wife Amy are bullied and taken advantage of by the locals hired to do contruction. When David finally takes a stand it escalates quickl...
  Character: Tom Hedden

   1971

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  The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (TV Series)
  This British TV series, shot almost entirely on videotape, dramatized short mystery fiction by authors who were contemporaries of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Many of these authors were virtually unknown to modern audiences, although a...
  Character:  Dorrington 2 episodes, 1971

   1971

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  Alfred the Great
  While Old England is being ransacked by roving Danes in the 9th century, Alfred is planning to join the priesthood. But observing the rape of his land, he puts away his religious vows to take up arms against the invaders, leading ...
   1969

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  The Gold Robbers (TV Series)
  TV Series (1969). 13 episodes. Tough cop Detective Chief Superintendent Cradock is assigned to track down and bring to justice the criminals behind the daring theft of five and half million pounds worth of gold bullion from an air...
   1969

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  The Bofors Gun
  A national service NCO (David Warner) who comes face to face with an embittered Irish Gunner (Nicol Williamson) who is determined to humiliate him.
   1968

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  6.0
  The Naked Runner
  Frank Sinatra stars as an American businessman who gets involved in an assassination plot while on a business trip to Germany. Set during a time in our history ridden with political paranoia, the plot reveals the treachery of the ...
  Character: Martin Slattery

   1967

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  6.0
  Die! Die! My Darling!
  A young woman is terrorized by her fiance's demented mother who blames her for her son's death.
   1965

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  Rotten to the Core
  Rogues Jelly Knight, Scapa Flood, and Lennie the Dip leave prison expecting boss The Duke to have their stash ready to share out. Instead, Duke's girl Sara gives them the news Duke is dead and the money gone on nursing care. They ...
   1965

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  The Wednesday Play (TV Series)
  TV Series (1964-1970). 171 episodes. Series of one-off plays made by BBC television which gave breaks to a wide range of writers and directors in the late 60s. The series often addressed controversial issues.
   1964

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  The Devil's Agent
  In East Germany, a double agent falls for a beautiful young escapee from Hungary.
  Character: Chief of Hungarian Police

   1962