Alec McCowen

Alec McCowen

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Alexander Duncan McCowen, CBE (26 May 1925 – 6 February 2017) was an English actor. He was known for his work in numerous film and stage productions. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alec McCowen, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title: Alec McCowen
  • Popularity: 4.73
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1925-05-26
  • Place of Birth: Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, UK
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Alec McCowen Movies

  • 1956
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    The Long Arm

    The Long Arm

    7 1956 HD

    Scotland Yard detectives attempt to solve a spate of safe robberies across England beginning with clues found at the latest burglary in London. The...

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  • 1972
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    Frenzy

    Frenzy

    7.091 1972 HD

    After a serial killer strangles several women with a necktie, London police identify a suspect—but he claims vehemently to be the wrong man.

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  • 1989
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    Henry V

    Henry V

    7.2 1989 HD

    Gritty adaption of William Shakespeare's play about the English King's bloody conquest of France.

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  • 1993
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    The Age of Innocence

    The Age of Innocence

    7 1993 HD

    In 19th century New York high society, a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her husband, while he is engaged to the woman's...

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  • 1972
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    Travels with My Aunt

    Travels with My Aunt

    5.8 1972 HD

    At his mother's funeral, stuffy bank clerk Henry Pulling meets his Aunt Augusta, an elderly eccentric with more-than-shady dealings who pulls him...

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  • 1958
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    The Silent Enemy

    The Silent Enemy

    5.4 1958 HD

    The Mediterranean, 1941/42 - Axis forces are using frogmen and manned torpedoes to attack previously impregnable harbours. The Allied forces need to...

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  • 1979
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    Hanover Street

    Hanover Street

    5.6 1979 HD

    Margaret is a nurse in England during WW2, and married to a secret agent. Things get complicated when she falls for David, an American pilot.

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  • 1966
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    The Witches

    The Witches

    6.052 1966 HD

    Following a nervous breakdown, Gwen takes up the job of head teacher in the small village of Haddaby. There she can benefit from the tranquillity and...

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  • 1983
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    Never Say Never Again

    Never Say Never Again

    6.056 1983 HD

    James Bond returns as the secret agent 007 to battle the evil organization SPECTRE. Bond must defeat Largo, who has stolen two atomic warheads for...

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  • 1957
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    Time Without Pity

    Time Without Pity

    6.6 1957 HD

    Alec Graham is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie, with whom he spent a weekend at the English country home of the parents of...

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  • 1962
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    The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

    The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

    7.2 1962 HD

    A rebellious youth sentenced to a reformatory for robbing a bakery rises through the ranks of the institution through his prowess as a long distance...

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  • 1965
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    The Agony and the Ecstasy

    The Agony and the Ecstasy

    7.092 1965 HD

    During the Italian Renaissance, Pope Julius II contracts the influential artist Michelangelo to sculpt 40 statues for his tomb. When the pope changes...

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  • 1970
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    The Hawaiians

    The Hawaiians

    5.4 1970 HD

    A wanderer returns home only to find political turmoil, disease and romantic difficulties.

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  • 1957
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    Town on Trial

    Town on Trial

    6.7 1957 HD

    When an attractive young girl is murdered, suspicion falls on several members of the local tennis club. It falls to Police Inspector Halloran to sort...

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  • 1979
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    Henry V

    Henry V

    6 1979 HD

    The life of King Henry the Fifth.

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  • 1959
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    The Doctor's Dilemma

    The Doctor's Dilemma

    6.1 1959 HD

    Four doctors face a serious dilemma when the beautiful wife of a TB-stricken artist begs one of them to cure her brilliant, but amoral, husband.

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  • 1985
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    The Assam Garden

    The Assam Garden

    6.5 1985 HD

    An insecure, aggressive widow of a tea garden manager reluctantly develops an affectionate relationship with an Indian housewife and her family.

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  • 1993
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    Maria's Child

    Maria's Child

    1 1993 HD

    Maria is a dancer who becomes pregnant, unexpectedly, and has to decide whether or not to keep the baby. When her live-in boyfriend, who is not the...

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  • 1972
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    Triple Exposure

    Triple Exposure

    1 1972 HD

    Len climbs Veronica and Percy’s fence intent on burglary, but what really happens next? The three acts of the play show the incident from each...

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  • 1957
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    Rope

    Rope

    1 1957 HD

    British iTV adaptation of Patrick Hamilton's Rope that aired as a part of ITV Play of the Week.

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  • 1980
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    Twelfth Night

    Twelfth Night

    6.7 1980 HD

    Viola and Sebastian are lookalike twins, separated by a shipwreck. Viola lands in Illyria, where she disguises herself like her brother and goes into...

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  • 1978
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    Stevie

    Stevie

    7 1978 HD

    For a poet with a gift for crafting words into barbs, Stevie Smith lives a relatively conventional life. Sheltered in a London suburb, she spends her...

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  • 1955
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    The Deep Blue Sea

    The Deep Blue Sea

    5.2 1955 HD

    A woman is unhappy in her marriage to a boring, stiff judge, so she takes up with a wild-living RAF pilot, who ends up being more than she can...

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  • 1983
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    The Secret Adversary

    The Secret Adversary

    6.8 1983 HD

    After a chance meeting and an indiscreet conversation, childhood friends Tommy Beresford and Tuppence Cowley become involved in a convoluted intrigue...

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  • 1987
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    Personal Services

    Personal Services

    6.05 1987 HD

    The story of the rise of a madame of a suburban brothel catering to older men, inspired by the real experiences of Cynthia Payne. The story follows...

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  • 1953
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    The Cruel Sea

    The Cruel Sea

    6.9 1953 HD

    At the start of World War II, Cmdr. Ericson is assigned to convoy escort HMS Compass Rose with inexperienced officers and men just out of training....

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  • 1990
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    St Mark's Gospel

    St Mark's Gospel

    1 1990 HD

    Alec McCowen's award-winning solo performance of the St Mark Gospel.

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  • 1995
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    Cruel Train

    Cruel Train

    4.5 1995 HD

    In wartime England, a railway official learns that the chairman of the line had sexually abused his wife as a child, then given him the job so he...

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  • 1989
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    Max Miller: I Like The Girls Who Do

    Max Miller: I Like The Girls Who Do

    1 1989 HD

    A celebration of Max Miller , comedian and star. Presented by Gerald Scarfe with Max Bygraves Charlie Chester , Doris Hare Jean Kent , Alec...

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  • 1983
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    Forever Young

    Forever Young

    1 1983 HD

    A lonely young boy idolizes his local priest. An old acquaintance of the priest shows up one day, and the boy learns that his idol isn't exactly what...

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  • 1991
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    The War That Never Ends

    The War That Never Ends

    1 1991 HD

    The Peloponnesian Wars (Athens versus Sparta for twenty-seven years) told in the format of news broadcast-like monologues by Theucydides, Plato, and...

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  • 1957
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    The One That Got Away

    The One That Got Away

    7 1957 HD

    Based on the true story of Oberleutnant Franz von Werra, the only German prisoner of war captured in Britain to escape back to Germany during the...

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  • 1984
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    Squaring the Circle

    Squaring the Circle

    5 1984 HD

    An account of how Lech Walesa and the "Solidarity" trade union confronted the might of Communist dictatorship in Poland.

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  • 1987
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    Cry Freedom

    Cry Freedom

    7.019 1987 HD

    A dramatic story, based on actual events, about the friendship between two men struggling against apartheid in South Africa in the 1970s. Donald...

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  • 2002
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    Gangs of New York

    Gangs of New York

    7.322 2002 HD

    In 1863, Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points of America to seek vengeance against the psychotic gangland kingpin, Bill the Butcher, who...

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  • 1957
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    The Good Companions

    The Good Companions

    1 1957 HD

    The story revolves around the Dinky Doos, a provincial musical troupe living from hand to mouth.

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  • 1976
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    Private Lives

    Private Lives

    6.5 1976 HD

    Divorced couple Amanda and Elyot have both recently remarried. On their honeymoons, however, they discover that they have accidentally booked...

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  • 1958
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    A Night to Remember

    A Night to Remember

    7.6 1958 HD

    The sinking of the Titanic is presented in a highly realistic fashion in this tense British drama. The disaster is portrayed largely from the...

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  • 1982
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    A Dedicated Man

    A Dedicated Man

    1 1982 HD

    Edith is a hotel waitress, single and in her mid-forties, with a major infatuation on Maurice Silcox, the hotel's head waiter. But Edith becomes...

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  • 1988
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    The Importance of Being Earnest

    The Importance of Being Earnest

    4.7 1988 HD

    Filled with wit and wisdom, The Importance of Being Earnest tells the tale of Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff. Jack has invented an imaginary...

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  • 1963
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    In the Cool of the Day

    In the Cool of the Day

    5.4 1963 HD

    After he mends a marital rift between a vacationing young couple, the bored, fragile wife falls hopelessly in love with the husband's ex-colleague...

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  • 1989
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    Dialogue in the Dark

    Dialogue in the Dark

    1 1989 HD

    A summer evening in Edinburgh, 1776. The ailing philosopher David Hume has an unexpected visitor.

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  • 1954
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    The Divided Heart

    The Divided Heart

    6.7 1954 HD

    During World War II, a German woman, Inga, goes missing and is presumed dead. Her infant son is placed in an orphanage where, years later, he's...

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  • 1978
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    When the Actors Come

    When the Actors Come

    1 1978 HD

    On a cold day in January 1850, a group of travelling actors arrive out of the snow at the remote country estate of Count Horvath, in eastern Hungary....

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  • 1997
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    Midsomer Murders

    Midsomer Murders

    7.552 1997 HD

    The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his...

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  • 1984
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    Mr. Palfrey of Westminster

    Mr. Palfrey of Westminster

    5 1984 HD

    Mr Palfrey of Westminster was a British television drama produced by Thames Television, which ran in 1984–85.

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  • 1983
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    Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime

    Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime

    6.071 1983 HD

    Spirited dialogue, posh Roaring '20s style, and devious mysteries abound as Tommy and Tuppence Beresford mix marriage and mystery solving.

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  • 1973
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    Orson Welles' Great Mysteries

    Orson Welles' Great Mysteries

    6.7 1973 HD

    Orson Welles' Great Mysteries was a British television series The series was an anthology of different tales. Each episode was introduced by Orson...

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  • 1965
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    BBC Play of the Month

    BBC Play of the Month

    5 1965 HD

    Play of the Month is a BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays which were usually broadcast on...

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  • 1978
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    BBC Television Shakespeare

    BBC Television Shakespeare

    5.2 1978 HD

    The BBC Television Shakespeare is a series of British television adaptations of the plays of William Shakespeare, created by Cedric Messina and...

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  • 1981
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    Bergerac

    Bergerac

    6.4 1981 HD

    Bergerac is a British television show set on Jersey. Produced by the BBC in association with the Seven Network, and first screened on BBC1, it stars...

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  • 1992
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    Shakespeare: The Animated Tales

    Shakespeare: The Animated Tales

    6.846 1992 HD

    An animated adaptation of twelve of Shakespeare's best-known plays. The series was produced by S4C for the BBC, but animated by some of the foremost...

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  • 1970
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    Play for Today

    Play for Today

    6.125 1970 HD

    Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more...

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