Harry Andrews

Harry Andrews

November 10, 1911 · 114 years old

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Harry Fleetwood Andrews, CBE (10 November 1911 – 6 March 1989) was an English film actor known for his frequent portrayals of tough military officers. His performance as Sergeant Major Wilson in The Hill alongside Sean Connery earned Andrews the 1965 Nation…

Known For

34 titles
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Death on the Nile

Death on the Nile

1978 · 2h 20m · Movie

As Hercule Poirot enjoys a luxurious cruise down the Nile, a newlywed heiress is found murdered on board. Can Poirot identify the killer before the ship reaches the end of its journey?

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Watership Down

Watership Down

1978 · 1h 32m · Movie

Hoping to escape destruction by human developers and save their community, a colony of rabbits, led by Hazel and Fiver, seek out a safe place to set up a new warren.

7.5
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Battle of Britain

Battle of Britain

1969 · 2h 12m · Movie

In 1940, the British Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle to prevent the Luftwaffe from gaining air superiority over the English Channel as a prelude to a possible Axis invasion of the U.K.

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Moby Dick

Moby Dick

1956 · 1h 56m · Movie

The sole survivor of a lost whaling ship relates the tale of his captain's self-destructive obsession to hunt the white whale, Moby Dick.

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The Hill

The Hill

1965 · 2h 3m · Movie

In a North African military prison during World War II, five new prisoners struggle to survive in the face of brutal punishment and sadistic guards.

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Theater of Blood

Theater of Blood

1973 · 1h 44m · Movie

A Shakespearean actor takes poetic revenge on the critics who denied him recognition.

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The Agony and the Ecstasy

The Agony and the Ecstasy

1965 · 2h 18m · Movie

The biographical story of Michelangelo's troubles while painting the Sistine Chapel at the urging of Pope Julius II.

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55 Days at Peking

55 Days at Peking

1963 · 2h 34m · Movie

During the 1900 Boxer Rebellion, U.S. marine, Maj. Matt Lewis, along with British consul, Sir Arthur Robertson, develop a plan to keep the rebels at bay until an international military relief force can arrive.

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The Medusa Touch

The Medusa Touch

1978 · 1h 49m · Movie

A telekinetic novelist causes disasters simply by thinking about them.

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Barabbas

Barabbas

1961 · 2h 17m · Movie

Governor Pontius Pilate gave the populace a choice to spare either Barabbas, a criminal, or Jesus, condemned as a heretic, from crucifixion. The masses chose Barrabas, and he is haunted by the image of Jesus for the rest of his life.

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The Ruling Class

The Ruling Class

1972 · 2h 34m · Movie

A member of the House of Lords dies, leaving his estate to his son. Unfortunately, his son thinks he is Jesus Christ. Their other, somewhat more respectable family members plot to steal the estate from him; murder and mayhem ensue.

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12
Ice Cold in Alex

Ice Cold in Alex

1958 · 2h 10m · Movie

During World War II in North Africa, a medical field unit must cross the desert in their ambulance in order to reach the British lines in Alexandria.

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Nicholas and Alexandra

Nicholas and Alexandra

1971 · 3h 3m · Movie

Tsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.

7.2
14
The Big Sleep

The Big Sleep

1978 · 1h 39m · Movie

A grizzled American private detective in England investigates a complicated case of blackmail-turned-murder involving a rich but honest elderly general, his two loose socialite daughters, a pornographer, and a gangster.

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The MacKintosh Man

The MacKintosh Man

1973 · 1h 38m · Movie

A member of British Intelligence assumes a fictitious criminal identity and allows himself to be caught, imprisoned, and freed in order to infiltrate a spy organization and expose a traitor.

6.3
16
Man of La Mancha

Man of La Mancha

1972 · 2h 12m · Movie

The funny story of mad but kind and chivalrous elderly nobleman Don Quixote who, aided by his squire Sancho Panza, fights windmills that are seen as dragons to save prostitute Dulcinea who is seen as a noblewoman.

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633 Squadron

633 Squadron

1964 · 1h 42m · Movie

A RAF squadron is assigned to knock out a German rocket fuel factory in Norway. The factory supplies fuel for the Nazi effort to launch rockets on England during D-Day.

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18
Alexander the Great

Alexander the Great

1956 · 2h 21m · Movie

Philip of Macedonia's son wants to rule the fourth-century B.C. world.

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Hawk the Slayer

Hawk the Slayer

1980 · 1h 30m · Movie

With the aid of his companions, a man seeks to defeat his evil brother who has taken a nun hostage.

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Too Late the Hero

Too Late the Hero

1970 · 2h 25m · Movie

A reluctant hero, American Lieutenant Sam Lawson, is seconded to a motley British unit tasked with destroying a Japanese radio on a Philippine island.

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21
The Charge of the Light Brigade

The Charge of the Light Brigade

1968 · 2h 19m · Movie

In 1854, during the Crimean War, poor planning leads to the British Light Brigade openly charging a Russian artillery position with tragic consequences.

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22
Modesty Blaise

Modesty Blaise

1966 · 1h 59m · Movie

Stylish ex-con Modesty Blaise and her partner Willie Garvin are tasked by the British Secret Service with preventing her rival Gabriel from stealing diamonds that are to be delivered to her adoptive father, a Sheikh.

5.0
23
The Devil's Disciple

The Devil's Disciple

1959 · 1h 23m · Movie

The black sheep of a family and the local minister discover their true vocations during the Revolutionary War.

7.0
24
The Nightcomers

The Nightcomers

1972 · 1h 36m · Movie

Prequel to Henry James' "The Turn of the Screw", focusing on groundskeeper Peter Quint's slow corruption of the virtuous governess Miss Jessel and the children she looks after.

5.8
25
Helen of Troy

Helen of Troy

1956 · 1h 58m · Movie

The Iliad's story of the Trojan war, told from the Trojan viewpoint.

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Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights

1970 · 1h 44m · Movie

Doomed lovers Catherine and Heathcliff are torn apart by their own selfishness and hate.

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What the Peeper Saw

What the Peeper Saw

1972 · 1h 29m · Movie

A wealthy author's second wife begins to suspect that her 12-year-old stepson may have murdered his mother, who mysteriously died in a bathtub accident.

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The Night They Raided Minsky's

The Night They Raided Minsky's

1968 · 1h 39m · Movie

A naive young Amish woman runs away from her home in Pennsylvania to New York City, where she hopes to act in religious stage plays but ends up performing in Burlesque theatre.

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A Dandy in Aspic

A Dandy in Aspic

1968 · 1h 47m · Movie

The British and Soviet Intelligence services attempt to out-fox one another using the homesick double-agent Krasnevin a.k.a. Alexander Eberlin as a pawn in a complex spy-game which takes place in Berlin.

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The Internecine Project

The Internecine Project

1974 · 1h 29m · Movie

A retired intelligence agent devises a cunning plan to eliminate those who know too much about his past.

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The Truth About Spring

The Truth About Spring

1965 · 1h 42m · Movie

During the 1960s, a Caribbean sailor and his tomboy daughter search for buried treasure but run into unsavory characters and a cute lawyer who's after romance.

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The Long Duel

The Long Duel

1967 · 1h 55m · Movie

To protest against British oppression and tyranny a tribal leader becomes a bandit.

5.9
33
Burke & Hare

Burke & Hare

1972 · 1h 34m · Movie

Two men go into business supplying medical colleges with cadavers by robbing graves.

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Nothing But the Best

Nothing But the Best

1964 · 1h 39m · Movie

A young and ambitious businessman hires an unemployed upper-class man to tutor him in the life skills which he thinks are necessary to succeed. When he succeeds, disaster threatens.

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