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Michael Elphick
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Filmography
Michael Elphick - what members say
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nostalgia 26 November 2005
review by from Coatbridge, Scotland
Most quotable film ever 21 June 2007
review by from Fife
four would-be London cabbies do The Knowledge 29 November 2003
Michael Elphick - filmography
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Out Of Bounds
(2003)
Starring: Sophia Myles, Sophie Ward, George Asprey
Director: Merlin Ward
Certificate: 
Louise is only eighteen-years-old and is stuck in a run-down girls' school in the heart of the English countryside. Her one consolation during the cold nights is Matthew, the American art teacher, who is the second husband of the headmistress, Veronica Van Huet. With half-term looming Louise cannot ..read more »
 
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from 174 members
Currently unavailable
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Dead In The Water
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Sophie Ward, Sophia Myles, George Asprey
Director: Merlin Ward
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Louise persuades her headmistress to let her stay on at her boarding school during half term to study for exams. The real reason is that she is having an affair with the headmistress' husband. During the half term she is caught in the act...
41%
from 136 members
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Let Him Have It
on DVD
(1991)
Starring: Christopher Eccleston, Paul Reynolds, Tom Bell
Director: Peter Medak
Certificate:
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Two teenagers are surprised by police during a break-in. One, epileptic with the mental age of 11 and IQ of 66 is arrested, the other, a gun-toting hood refuses to give up his weapon. Shouting Let Him Have It! to his friend, he fires, wounding one officer and killing another. Both boys face the ..read more »
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from 1,475 member
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Boon - Series 5 - Complete
(1990)
Starring: Michael Elphick, Neil Morrissey, David Daker
Certificate: 
After leaving the fire service, Ken Boon (Michael Elphick) teams up with Harry Crawford to establish an odd-job service. Features the complete episodes from the fifth series of the programme.
60%
from 1 member
Not available for rental
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Boon - Series 6 - Complete
(1990)
Starring: Michael Elphick, Neil Morrissey, David Daker
Certificate:
After leaving the fire service, Ken Boon (Michael Elphick) teams up with Harry Crawford to establish an odd-job service. Features the complete episodes from the sixth series of the programme.
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Not available for rental
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Boon - Series 4 - Complete
(1989)
Starring: Michael Elphick, David Daker, Neil Morrissey
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Ken Boon is back in the saddle for more adventure and humour in this fourth series of the BAFTA-winning hit drama. With heart-warming storylines and an array of guest stars, it's no surprise that Boon was an instant ratings winner for ITV and remains a much-loved series to this day. Michael Elphick ..read more »
60%
from 3 members
Not available for rental
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Withnail And I
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Paul McGann, Richard E. Grant, Richard Griffiths
Director: Bruce Robinson
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WITHNAIL AND I is a quirky semiautobiographical account of filmmaker Bruce Robinson's early years as an actor. In 1969 London, two unemployed thespians--Withnail (Richard E. Grant) and Marwood (Paul McGann)--take a holiday in the Lake District at the home of Withnail's uncle Monty (Richard ..read more »
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from 31,291 members
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Boon - Series 1
(4 discs)
(1986)
Starring: Michael Elphick, David Parker
Certificate: 
After leaving the fire service, Ken Boon teams up with Harry Crawford to establish an odd-job service. Features the complete episodes from the first series of the programme.
62%
from 297 members
Not available for rental
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Much Ado About Nothing
on DVD
(1984)
Starring: Cherie Lunghi, Robert Lindsay, Michael Elphick
Director: Stuart Burge
Certificate: 
In 1978, the BBC set itself the task of filming all of William Shakespeare's plays for television. The resulting productions, renowned for their loyalty to the text, utilised the best theatrical and television directors and brought great performances from leading contemporary actors. When ..read more »
64%
from 204 members
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Ordeal By Innocence
on DVD
(1984)
Starring: Donald Sutherland, Faye Dunaway, Christopher Plummer
Director: Desmond Davis
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Based on an Agatha Christie story, the plot revolves around a murder case where a man was hanged for his mother's murder even though he maintained he was innocent. Two years after, his missing alibi turns up, starting an investigation into who really did commit the crime.
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from 46 members
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Privates On Parade
on DVD
(1983)
Starring: John Cleese, Dennis Quilley, Michael Elphick
Director: Michael Blakemore
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PRIVATES ON PARADE is a wacky comedy about a British army unit assigned the thankless task of entertaining the troops stationed in the Malayan jungle during the second world war. John Cleese leads the troops as Major Giles Flack and he's accompanied by an aging actress suffering from old fashioned ..read more »
55%
from 288 members
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Smiley's People
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1982)
Starring: Alec Guinness, Mario Adorf, Eileen Atkins
Director: Simon Langton
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John Le Carre's follow up to the highly acclaimed TINKER, TAILER, SOLDIER, SPY sees shy espionage expert George Smiley coming out of retirement yet again to investigate enemy filtration in his old department. Alec Guinness reprises his superb, definitive nuanced role as Smiley in this masterful ..read more »
80%
from 3,589 members
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The Knowledge
(1981)
Starring: Mick Ford, Michael Elphick, Nigel Hawthorne
Director: Bob Brooks
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THE KNOWLEDGE stars Nigel Hawthorne, Michael Elphick, Mick Ford, and Gary Holton as four men attempting to pass the "Knowledge of London" exam to become cab drivers. As they prepare for the test, they learn more than expected.
64%
from 293 members
Not currently released
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Private Schulz
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1981)
Starring: Michael Elphick, Ian Richardson, Ronald Baddiley
Director: Robert Chetwyn
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This much-loved 1981 series, featuring the comic misadventures of reluctant Nazi hero Private Schulz, was acclaimed for its comic writing and for the performances of Michael Elphick and Ian Richardson.
Just a few weeks before the outbreak of the Second World War, recently released convict Schulz ..read more »
73%
from 258 members
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Quadrophenia
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: Phil Daniels, Mark Wingett, Leslie Ash
Director: Franc Roddam
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This film version of the Who's rock opera Quadrophenia makes a few tentative stabs at explaining the alienation of 1960s British working-class youth, but its major selling point is its nonstop rock-and-R? musical score, including the hit single Love Reign O'er Me. Phil Daniels (replacing the ..read more »
71%
from 6,350 members
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Quadrophenia - Blu-ray
(1979)
Starring: Phil Daniels, Mark Wingett, Leslie Ash
Director: Franc Roddam
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It's the Mods versus the Rockers in this striking adaptation of the Who's classic rock opera about alienated youth in the 1960s. The film follows Jimmy (Phil Daniels) an angry young man who feels that he can only achieve a sense of identity and meaning in life through his gang and rock and roll ..read more »
57%
from 4 members
Not available for rental
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Three Men In A Boat
on DVD
(1975)
Starring: Tim Curry, Michael Palin, Stephen Moore
Director: Stephen Frears
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Popular from the very start and never out of print, Three Men in a Boat remains as fresh and funny today as when it was first published in 1889. This adaptation is by a modern master of comedy, playwright Tom Stoppard (Shakespeare in Love, The Russia House, Empire of the Sun, Rosencrantz and ..read more »
60%
from 245 members
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Great Authors - Charles Dickens
(3 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Anton Lesser, Prunella Scales, Timothy West
Certificate: 
A three disc set. Disc One features a documentary which looks at the life and times of author Charles Dickens with dramatic reconstructions. Disc Two features the David Copperfield television drama. Disc Three features A Christmas Carol; an Anton Lesser dramatisation, also Songs From Grope Lane and ..read more »
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from 70 members
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Michael Elphick facts
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...e,phil daniels,sting ,leslie ash looking amazing and mark wingett out the bill ,Michael Elphick to name but a few.it really does capture what was great about the time even tho...
