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Alun Armstrong
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Alun Armstrong - what members say
review by from Aberdeen
The blueprint for British drama. 22 October 2004
review by williamsgwynfa from gwaenysgor in flintshire
superb.................. 25 July 2007
review by from cardiff wales
Priceless Acting 24 May 2006
Alun Armstrong - filmography
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New Tricks: The Best Of
on DVD
(2012)
Starring: Alun Armstrong, Amanda Redman, Dennis Waterman
Certificate: 
A collection of the five best episodes of the BBC police drama as voted for by fans of the show. A motley crew of retired police officers, including Gerry Standing (Dennis Waterman) and Brian Lane (Alun Armstrong), are recruited by Superintendent Sandra Pullman (Amanda Redman) to reopen troublesome ..read more »
 
73%
from 3 members
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Garrow's Law - Series 3
(2 discs)
on DVD
(2011)
Starring: Andrew Buchan, Lyndsey Marshal, Lyndsey Marshal
Director: Bryn Higgins
Certificate: 
The complete third series of the drama based loosely on the life of pioneering 18th century barrister William Garrow. In this series, Garrow (Andrew Buchan) finds himself facing both political and personal turmoil. In the aftermath of the French Revolution, social unrest brings him a diversity of ..read more »
80%
from 104 members
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Garrow's Law - Series 2
(2 discs)
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Andrew Buchan, Aidan McArdle, Andy Linden
Director: Ashley Pearce
Certificate:
All four episodes from the second series of the fictionalised drama based on the life of pioneering 18th century barrister William Garrow. In this series, Garrow prosecutes a ship's captain accused of throwing slaves overboard on his way to Jamaica; defends an army captain facing the death penalty; ..read more »
83%
from 247 members
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New Tricks - Series 7
(3 discs)
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: James Bolam, Anthony Calf, Susan Jameson
Director: Robin Sheppard, Julian Simpson
Certificate:
All ten episodes from the seventh series of the BBC police drama. A motley crew of retired police officers - Gerry Standing (Dennis Waterman), Jack Halford (James Bolam) and Brian Lane (Alun Armstrong) - are recruited by Superintendent Sandra Pullman (Amanda Redman) to reopen troublesome cases that ..read more »
81%
from 154 members
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Aristocrats
(2 discs)
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Richard Dempsey, John Light, Tom Mullion
Director: David Caffrey
Certificate: 
BBC dramatisation of Stella Tillyard's best-selling biography of the four Lennox sisters. This aristocratic eighteenth century family consisted of Caroline, who flew in the face of polite society by marrying a Whig politician old enough to be her father, Emily, who gave birth to a famous Irish ..read more »
70%
from 276 members
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Garrow's Law
(2 discs)
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Andrew Buchan, Aidan McArdle, Rupert Graves
Director: Peter Lydon
Certificate:
A four-part fictionalised drama based on the life of pioneering 18th century barrister William Garrow. Raised in an age of widespread corruption, when bounty hunters accused innocent people of crimes in order to obtain blood money paid out by the government for successful prosecutions, Garrow ..read more »
81%
from 416 members
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Little Dorrit
(4 discs)
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Matthew McFadyen, Rosie Cavaliero, Russell Tovey
Director: Adam Smith
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Andrew Davies's adaptation of the classic Charles Dickens tale of hardship and struggle in 1820s London. The Dorrit family has spent years in a debtors' prison due to the financial mess in which father William (Tom Courtenay) managed to land himself as a youth. Youngest daughter Amy (Claire Foy), ..read more »
80%
from 2,186 members
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New Tricks - Series 4
(3 discs)
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Alun Armstrong, James Bolam, Amanda Redman
Director: Rob Evans, Sydney Macartney
Certificate:
All eight episodes from the fourth series of the BBC police drama in which a motley crew of retired police officers - Gerry Standing (Dennis Waterman), Jack Halford (James Bolam) and Brian Lane (Alun Armstrong) - is recruited by Superintendent Sandra Pullman (Amanda Redman) to re-open troublesome ..read more »
85%
from 611 members
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Eragon - Blu-ray
(2006)
Starring: Edward Speleers, Jeremy Irons, Djimon Hounsou
Director: Stefen Fangmeier
Certificate:
Fantasy adventure based on the best-selling novel by Christopher Paolini. Orphaned farm boy Eragon (Edward Speleers) destiny is sealed forever when a mystic stone chooses him for its keeper. But when the stone turns out to be an egg from which a baby dragon is hatched, Eragon realises he has ..read more »
59%
from 3,233 members
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New Tricks - Series 3
(3 discs)
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: James Bolam, Dennis Waterman, Anthony Calf
Director: Rob Evans
Certificate:
All eight episodes from the third series of the BBC police drama in which a motley crew of retired police officers - Gerry Standing (Dennis Waterman), Jack Halford (James Bolam) and Brian Lane (Alun Armstrong) - is recruited by Superintendent Sandra Pullman (Amanda Redman) to re-open troublesome ..read more »
81%
from 1,018 member
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Eragon
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Gary Lewis, Edward Speleers, Jeremy Irons
Director: Stefen Fangmeier
Certificate:
Fantasy adventure based on the best-selling novel by Christopher Paolini. Orphaned farm boy Eragon (Edward Speleers) destiny is sealed forever when a mystic stone chooses him for its keeper. But when the stone turns out to be an egg from which a baby dragon is hatched, Eragon realises he has ..read more »
61%
from 38,249 members
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It's All About Love
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Sean Penn, Douglas Henshall, Margo Martindale
Director: Thomas Vinterberg
Certificate:
Unusual sci-fi romance from Danish director Thomas Vintenberg, set in a near-future world teetering on the brink of environmental collapse: children are dying on the streets in New York from an unexplained illness; the weather has become unpredictable to the point where snowstorms are a regular ..read more »
41%
from 3,960 members
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Carrie's War
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Keeley Fawcett, Pauline Quirke, Lesley Sharp
Director: Coky Giedroyc
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TV adaptation of the bestselling children's novel by Nina Bawden. When 14-year-old Carrie Willow (Keeley Fawcett) and her younger brother Nick (Jack Stanley) are evacuated from London to the small Welsh town of Druids Bottom during World War II, they are taken in by the strict Mr Evans (Alun ..read more »
70%
from 888 members
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New Tricks - Series 1
(3 discs)
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: James Bolam, Amanda Redman, Dennis Waterman
Certificate:
All six episodes from the first season of the BBC1 crime series in which a motley crew of retired police officers - Gerry Standing (Dennis Waterman), Jack Halford (James Bolam) and Brian Lane (Alun Armstrong) - is recruited by Superintendent Sandra Pullman (Amanda Redman) to re-open troublesome ..read more »
77%
from 2,138 members
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Sparkhouse
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Joseph McFadden, Sarah Smart, Alun Armstrong
Director: Robin Shepperd
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BBC drama updating the story of 'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Bronte. On isolated Sparkhouse farm, feisty Carol Bolton (Sarah Smart) lives with her drunken father and shares a destructively intense passion with her childhood love Andrew Lawton (Joseph McFadden). But in the surroundings of the bleak, ..read more »
69%
from 1,150 member
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Strictly Sinatra
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Brian Cox, Tommy Flanagan, Kelly MacDonald
Director: Peter Capaldi
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Toni Cocozza (Ian Hart) is a young Sinatra impersonator struggling to make ends meet on the Glasgow nightclub circuit. One night he makes an impression on the wife of a local crime boss and gets an invitation to perform at a nearby casino. Toni is glad of the fresh opportunity, and hopes that his ..read more »
52%
from 188 members
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Onegin
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Francesca Annis, Lena Headey, Martin Donovan
Director: Martha Fiennes
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This adaptation of Alexander Pushkin's classic novel stars Ralph Fiennes in the title role and is directed by Fiennes' sister Martha. Disillusioned with life in St. Petersburg, Onegin moves to a country estate he has inherited. As he attempts to fit in with the rural community, he is surprised by a ..read more »
59%
from 1,870 member
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The Saint
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Lucija Serbedzija, Val Kilmer, Henry Goodman
Director: Phillip Noyce
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Simon Templar (Val Kilmer), alias The Saint, is a gentleman spy and thief. After stealing a microchip from Russian oil magnate Ivan Tretiak (Rade Serbebzija), he is hired by Tretiak to appropriate a secret formula for a new energy process called cold fusion from American scientist Emma Russell (..read more »
57%
from 4,651 members
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Breaking the Code
(1996)
Starring: Derek Jacobi, Blake Ritson, Alun Armstrong
Director: Herbert Wise
Certificate: 
A biography of the English mathematician Alan Turing, who was one of the inventors of the digital computer and one of the key figures in the breaking of the Enigma code, used by the Germans to send secret orders to their U-boats in World War II. Turing was also a homosexual in Britain at a time ..read more »
57%
from 7 members
Currently unavailable
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Our Friends In The North
(4 discs)
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Mark Strong, Christopher Eccleston, Malcolm McDowell
Certificate: 
The entire series of the popular BBC Television series charting the lives of a group of four Geordie friends from their teens until middle-age: Nicky is a radical socialist, determined to devote his life to the class struggle; Tosker a Jack-the-lad with dreams of pop stardom; Mary, courted by Nicky ..read more »
80%
from 3,755 members
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Inspector Morse - S07 E01 - Deadly Slumber
(1993)
Starring: John Thaw, Kevin Whately, Samantha Bond
Director: Stuart Orme
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The owner of a private clinic has committed suicide then Morse finds he was bound and gagged. One suspect is Michael Steppings who wrote threatening letters after his daughter was left brain-damaged after a botched operation. Then Morse finds one letter was altered which puts a new slant on it all.
70%
from 46 members
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Inspector Morse - Deadly Slumber
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: John Thaw, Samantha Bond, Adrian Dunbar
Director: Stuart Orme
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Dr. Mathew Brewster's suicide takes a particular twist when the pathologist determines that he had also been bound and gagged. The Brewsters, both medical doctors, ran a private clinic and their son John, who lived at home, is doctoral candidate in philosophy. One possible suspect is Michael ..read more »
71%
from 1,159 member
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Inspector Morse - Dead on Time
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: David Haig, Richard Pasco, John Thaw
Director: John Madden
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Henry Fallon, who is wheelchair bound and is suffering from a neurological disorder, apparently commits suicide and Morse has mixed feelings working on this case as he was once engaged to the dead man's wife, Susan Fallon. The body was found by his son-in-law Peter Rhodes, a local antiques dealer ..read more »
73%
from 1,019 member
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Shakespeare - Animated
(3 discs)
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Zoe Wanamaker, Jenny Agutter, Timothy West
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Renowned author and Shakespeare scholar Leon Garfield adapts 12 plays, abridged and animated renditions of the classic texts that are fully faithful to the narrative and language of the Bard. The adaptations use a variety of animation techniques and features the vocal talents of Felicity Kendal, ..read more »
62%
from 334 members
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Inspector Morse - S06 E03 - Death of the...
(1992)
Starring: John Thaw, Kevin Whately, Samantha Bond
Director: Colin Gregg
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Morse and Lewis go to Verona, Italy to look into the death of a woman attending a clinic run by a convicted fraudster. While Lewis is homesick, Morse falls under the spell of Nicole, an opera singer, also at the clinic. Then he uncovers a fraud in counterfeit rare manuscripts and Nicole may be involved.
72%
from 44 members
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Inspector Morse - S06 E05 - Cherubim and...
(1992)
Starring: John Thaw, Kevin Whately, Samantha Bond
Director: Danny Boyle
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Tragedy strikes when Morse's niece commits suicide. He takes leave to try to find a reason and comes into contact with the alien world of house parties, raves and designer drugs. Lewis is working an the death of a young man and when they're re-teamed they see similarities in the two cases.
68%
from 50 members
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Inspector Morse - S06 E01 - Dead on Time
(1992)
Starring: John Thaw, Kevin Whately, Samantha Bond
Director: John Madden
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Wheelchair-bound and terminally ill Henry Fallon commits suicide but Morse has mixed feelings about working on the case as he was once engaged to Mrs Fallon. When he finds it's murder, the son-in-law becomes a suspect. But Lewis is concerned that Morse's professionalism is compromised.
73%
from 60 members
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The Widowmaker
(1990)
Starring: David Morrissey, Annabelle Apsion, Kenneth Welsh
Director: John Madden
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Made-for-TV drama starring Annabelle Apsion as a woman attempting to come to terms with her husband's arrest on a charge of murder. When Kathy (Apsion), a young mother and wife of Rob (David Morrissey), arrives home one day only to find it surrounded by the police, she is naturally disturbed and ..read more »
80%
from 1 member
Not available for rental
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The Squirrels
(1976)
Starring: Bernard Hepton, Patsy Rowlands, Ken Jones
Director: Shaun O'Riordan
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All 22 surviving episodes of the 1970s comedy created by Eric Chappell, who would later go on to write the popular sitcom 'Rising Damp'. Set in the offices of International Rentals, a television hire company, the show tracks the intrigue, pranks and politics among the staff. Bernard Hepton stars as ..read more »
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American Friends
on DVD
Starring: David Calder, Trini Alvarado, Alfred Molina
Director: Tristram Powell
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Monty Python actor Michael Palin based this romantic story on his grandfather Francis Ashby's travel journals. A Fellow at an Oxford College, Ashby (Michael Palin) has long resigned himself to life without love, but his life is turned upside down when he meets two American women on holiday in ..read more »
62%
from 7 members
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Bedtime Series 1, 2 & 3
(3 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Timothy West, Sheila Hancock, Alun Armstrong
Director: Andy Hamilton
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Bedtime from writer Andy Hamilton (Outnumbered and Trevor’s World of Sport) is a unique and hugely rewarding comedy series set in the bedrooms of various adjoining houses during the last half-hour of the day.
Andrew and Alice Oldfield (Timothy West and Sheila Hancock) are the couple to whom – and ..read more »
47%
from 4 members
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Alun Armstrong facts
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...e spectrum in age range of actor due to the sheer span of the drama's timeline. Alun Armstrong is fantastic as the amiable but corrupted Austen Donoghue MP and Peter Vaughan ...
