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Michael Elphick
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Filmography
Michael Elphick - what members say
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Most quotable film ever 21 June 2007
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four would-be London cabbies do The Knowledge 29 November 2003
Michael Elphick - filmography
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Out Of Bounds
(2003)
Starring: George Asprey, Michael Elphick, Sophie Ward
Director: Merlin Ward
Certificate: 
Low-budget crime thriller. Daryl Cage (Anthony Michael Hall) sets off to visit his brother and sister-in-law in L.A. but picks up a bag of heroin at the airport by mistake. The police come after him so he teams up with Dizz (Jenny Wright), and disguises himself as a street-wise but slick operator.

46%
from 179 members
Not available for rental
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Dead In The Water
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: George Asprey, Michael Elphick, Sophie Ward
Director: Merlin Ward
Certificate: 
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 141 members
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Let Him Have It
on DVD
(1991)
Starring: Paul Reynolds, Michael Gough, Christopher Eccleston
Director: Peter Medak
Certificate: 
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The true story of Derek Bentley (Christopher Eccleston), hanged, aged 19, in the 1950s after a controversial decision holding him responsible for the murder of a police officer. Despite a history of mental illness, and with the court accepting that he did not actually pull the trigger, Bentley was ..read more »

69%
from 1,580 member
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I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Neil Morrissey, Michael Elphick
Director: Dirk Campbell
Certificate: 
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Birmingham biker Nick Oddie (Neil Morrissey) thinks he's got a bargain when he buys a second-hand motorcycle at a knock-down price. The only problem is that the machine won't start in the hours of daylight. Nick's suspicions begin to mount when his best friend is murdered, and it eventually ..read more »

57%
from 646 members
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Boon - Series 5 - Complete
(1990)
Starring: Neil Morrissey, Michael Elphick, David Daker
Certificate: 
The complete fifth series of the British television drama about the unconventional private investigator and odd-job man Ken Boon (Michael Elphick), assisted by his ex-fireman mate Harry Crawford (David Daker) and young staff member Rocky (Neil Morrissey). In this series, Ken and Harry set up their ..read more »

55%
from 2 members
Not available for rental
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Boon - Series 6 - Complete
(1990)
Starring: Neil Morrissey, Michael Elphick, David Daker
Certificate: 
The complete sixth series of the British television drama about unconventional private investigator and odd-job man Ken Boon (Michael Elphick). Boon is assisted in his investigations by fellow ex-fireman Harry Crawford (David Daker) and young staff member Rocky (Neil Morrissey). In this series, Ken ..read more »

50%
from 1 member
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Boon - Series 4 - Complete
(1989)
Starring: Neil Morrissey, Michael Elphick, David Daker
Certificate: 
Complete fourth series of the British television drama about the unconventional private investigator and odd-job man Ken Boon (Michael Elphick), assisted by his ex-fireman mate Harry Crawford (David Daker) and young staff member Rocky (Neil Morrissey). Episodes are: 'Walking Off Air', 'The Relief ..read more »

57%
from 5 members
Not available for rental
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Little Dorrit
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Michael Elphick, Derek Jacobi, Robert Morley
Director: Christine Edzard, Christine
Certificate: 
Two-part TV adaptation of Dickens' novel. The Dorrit family have spent years in a debtors' prison due to the financial mess in which father William (Alec Guinness) managed to land himself as a youth. Youngest daughter Amy (known as Little Dorrit) finds work with the wealthy Mrs Clenham but knows ..read more »

61%
from 482 members
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Withnail And I
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Michael Elphick, Daragh O'Malley, Richard Griffiths
Director: Bruce Robinson
Certificate: 
Bruce Robinson's celebrated cult comedy starring Richard E. Grant and Paul McGann. It's the end of the 1960s and two out-of-work actors, Withnail (Grant) and 'I' (McGann), subsist on a diet of booze, drugs and fags in their revolting Camden flat. In order to escape the depressing nexus of visits ..read more »

71%
from 32,236 members
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Boon - Series 1
(4 discs)
(1986)
Starring: David Parker, Michael Elphick
Certificate: 
All thirteen episodes from the first series of the British television drama, about the unconventional private investigator and odd-job man Ken Boon (Michael Elphick). In this series, Boon is hired to recover a stolen lion for a group of circus performers, pilot a barge from Birmingham to London, ..read more »

62%
from 302 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 218 members
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Ordeal By Innocence
on DVD
(1984)
Starring: Sarah Miles, Michael Elphick, Ian McShane
Director: Desmond Davis
Certificate: 
Another mystery for the irrepressible Miss Marple (Geraldine McEwan). While serving a sentence for killing his mother - a crime he insisted he didn't commit - Jacko Argyle (Burn Gorman) dies in prison. Two years later, the man who could have supported Jacko's alibi suddenly turns up, and the family ..read more »

58%
from 56 members
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Privates On Parade
(1983)
Starring: Michael Elphick, John Cleese, Nicola Pagett
Director: Michael Blakemore
Certificate: 
Army comedy set in 1948. John Cleese stars as the eccentric bible-bashing Major Giles Flack, who along with his Acting Captain, Terri Dennis (Denis Quilley), an ageing theatrical drag queen, is in charge of preparing the Song And Dance Unit, South-East Asia (SADUSEA) for a musical tour designed to ..read more »

55%
from 294 members
Currently unavailable
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Smiley's People
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1982)
Starring: Michael Elphick, Alec Guinness, Anthony Bate
Director: Simon Langton
Certificate: 
British masterspy George Smiley (Alec Guinness) returns to his old department following the murder of his friend, General Vladimir, a Russian who once worked for British Intelligence. When it transpires that Vladimir was in fact a double agent, Smiley becomes engaged in a battle of wills with his ..read more »

79%
from 3,594 members
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Private Schulz
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1981)
Starring: Walter Sparrow, Michael Elphick, Terence Suffolk
Director: Robert Chetwyn
Certificate: 
Popular comedy drama series from the early 1980s, which won a posthumous British Television Society award for writer Jack Pulman, about a WWII conman reluctantly seconded into the SS, who dreams up a plan to swamp Britain with fake five-pound notes. When convict Schulz (Michael Elphick) is released ..read more »

73%
from 279 members
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The Knowledge
(1981)
Starring: Nigel Hawthorne, Michael Elphick, Kim Taylforth
Director: Bob Brooks
Certificate: 
Writer Jack Rosenthal's feature-length comedy about trainee cab-drivers in London. The story centres on a mismatched group of hopefuls as they are put through their paces on 'The Knowledge' - the special, gruelling test system that all black cab drivers have to pass before they can become fully-..read more »

65%
from 304 members
Currently unavailable
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Quadrophenia - Blu-ray
(1979)
Starring: Kate Williams, Ray Winstone, Michael Elphick
Director: Franc Roddam
Certificate: 
Jimmy (Phil Daniels) is a young Mod looking for pills, thrills and a sense of identity in 60s London. His increasing reliance on the buzz provided by the gang mentality of his friends reaches its height in the Brighton Bank Holiday confrontations with the Rockers. An inevitable comedown follows ..read more »

68%
from 56 members
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Quadrophenia
(1979)
Starring: Kate Williams, Ray Winstone, Michael Elphick
Director: Franc Roddam
Certificate: 
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 6,576 members
Currently unavailable
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Three Men In A Boat
on DVD
(1975)
Starring: Michael Elphick, Bill Stewart, Stephen Moore
Director: Stephen Frears
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Stephen Frears directs this 1970s BBC adaptation of the classic novel by Jerome K Jerome, with a teleplay by Tom Stoppard. Tim Curry, Michael Palin and Stephen Moore star as the hapless trio who take to the Thames for an outdoor adventure peppered with various diversions into pubs, museums and ..read more »

60%
from 258 members
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Great Authors - Charles Dickens
(3 discs)
Starring: Trevor Eve, Anton Lesser, Michael Elphick
Certificate: 
A three-volume documentary set exploring the life and work of the great Victorian novelist. Illustrating how Dickens drew on his experiences for his fiction, the set also includes the 1999 dramatised BBC production of 'David Copperfield'.

65%
from 71 members
Not available for rental
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