David Ryall
David John Ryall (January 5, 1935 – December 25, 2014) was an English stage, film and television character actor. He had leading roles in Lytton's Diary and Goodnight Sweetheart, as well as memorable roles in Dennis Potter's The Singing Detective and Andrew Davies's adaptation of To Play the King. He also portrayed Billy Buzzle in the ITV sitcom Bless Me, Father and Frank in the BBC sitcom Outnumbered.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.9706 |
| Birthday | 1935-01-05 |
| Place of Birth | Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex, England, UK |
| Also Known As | David John Ryall, |
2004
Around the World in 80 Days
5.954/2781
A bet pits a British inventor, a Chinese thief and a French artist on a worldwide adventure that they can circle the globe in 80 days.
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Around the World in 80 Days
1969
The Dance of Death
6.667/3
An egocentric artillery captain and his venomous wife engage in savage unremitting battles in their isolated island fortress of the coast of Sweden at...
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The Dance of Death
2010
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
7.733/20776
Harry, Ron and Hermione walk away from their last year at Hogwarts to find and destroy the remaining Horcruxes, putting an end to Voldemort's bid for...
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2008
City of Ember
6.38/1950
For generations, the people of the City of Ember have flourished in an amazing world of glittering lights. But Ember's once powerful generator is fail...
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City of Ember
1983
Fords on Water
9/1
Influential, cult classic, UK buddy road movie about two friends, one white and one black, who bond over their desire to escape from boredom and unemp...
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Fords on Water
1989
The Woman in Black
6.894/146
A lawyer travels to a small seaside town to settle the estate of a recently deceased woman, but soon becomes ensnared in something much more sinister.
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The Woman in Black
1991
One Against the Wind
7.1/10
Mary Linden works for the French Red Cross in Occupied France during World War II and helps allied soldiers who have been shot down to escape to the u...
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One Against the Wind
1992
Running Late
9/1
Television interviewer George Grant, renowned for his ability to get at the truth, is at the peak of his career. But when he receives a message at his...
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Running Late
1988
Starlings
7/1
Starlings are the charlatans of the bird world; they change their tune to match their company. In this comedy, Gary Wilson is the changeling; he loses...
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Starlings
2002
Two Men Went To War
6.654/13
Comedy drama based on the true story of two British Army dentists who in 1942, eager to see action, go AWOL and invade occupied France on their own.
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Two Men Went To War
1982
Walter
5.9/10
A man with learning difficulties suffers neglect and ill-treatment, and this is only exasperated when his parents die and nobody seems to know what to...
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Walter
2006
Pickles: The Dog Who Won the World Cup
0/0
The fictional story about the little dog that discovered the FIFA World Cup Trophy after it was stolen in 1966.
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Pickles: The Dog Who Won the World Cup
2013
The Tractate Middoth
7.1/13
The chilling story of Dr Rant, whose wicked streak continues from beyond the grave. Based on the festive ghost story by MR James. When a relative com...
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The Tractate Middoth
1993
Justice
5.6/7
Senator Isaak Kohler shoots and kills Professor Winter in a crowded restaurant, while Winter is dining with the struggling idealistic young lawyer, Fe...
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Justice
2014
Automata
5.903/1854
Jacq Vaucan, an insurance agent of ROC robotics corporation, routinely investigates the case of manipulating a robot. What he discovers will have prof...
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Automata
2007
Clapham Junction
6.479/48
Set in the Clapham district of south London, England, the film is inspired by true events. The paths of several men intersect during a dramatic thirty...
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Clapham Junction
1979
The Knowledge
6.5/11
Four men attempt "The Knowledge" examination to qualify as London taxi drivers.
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The Knowledge
1994
Fatherland
6.257/142
Fictional account of what might have happened if Hitler had won the war. It is now the 1960s and Germany's war crimes have so far been kept a secret....
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Fatherland
1990
Who Bombed Birmingham?
8.5/2
Docudrama film exploring the efforts of World in Action researchers Ian MacBride and Chris Mullin in proving that the "Birmingham Six" only admitted t...
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Who Bombed Birmingham?
1990
The Russia House
6.1/339
Barley Scott Blair, a Lisbon-based editor of Russian literature who unexpectedly begins working for British intelligence, is commissioned to investiga...
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The Russia House
1980
The Elephant Man
8.053/4047
A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revea...
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The Elephant Man
1996
Black Eyes
9/1
Josh and Jim want to know how Jack got his black eye. So the17 year old Jack explains over a couple of beers how their friend Lennie got him into this...
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Black Eyes
1991
Truly Madly Deeply
6.864/110
Nina is totally heartbroken at the death of her boyfriend Jamie, but is even more unprepared for his return as a ghost. At first it's almost as good a...
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Truly Madly Deeply
2003
Byron
4.786/14
Life and adventures of lord George Gordon Byron. BBC dramatization of the poet's final thirteen years
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Byron
2002
The Cicerones
5.833/3
A tourist encounters some strange characters in a foreign cathedral.
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The Cicerones
2003
Lucky Jim
7/1
A rollicking adaptation of Kingsley Amis's first novel, Lucky Jim stars Stephen Tompkinson as Jim Dixon, a luckless lecturer at a provincial British u...
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Lucky Jim
2002
Bertie and Elizabeth
6.7/11
The life of England’s George VI, who was forced to become King following the abdication of his brother, and his relationship with his wife, Elizabeth.
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Bertie and Elizabeth
1995
Carrington
6.174/72
Painter Dora Carrington develops an intimate but extremely complex bond with writer Lytton Strachey. Though Lytton is a homosexual, he is enchanted by...
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Carrington
1989
Wilt
6.361/36
Henry Wilt is a more or less failed teacher who fantasizes about murdering his dominant, non-attentive wife Eva. At a party who gets stuck in an infla...
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Wilt
2007
The Worst Journey in the World
6.5/2
Drama documentary exploring Captain Scott's 1912 Antarctic expedition, which saw him and two colleagues conducting scientific experiments in harsh con...
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The Worst Journey in the World
2014
Mr. Turner
6.541/597
Eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner lives his last 25 years with gusto and secretly becomes involved with a seaside landlady, while his faithful...
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Mr. Turner
2012
Quartet
6.495/396
Cissy, Reggie, and Wilf are in a home for retired musicians. Every year, there is a concert to celebrate Composer Giuseppe Verdi's birthday and they t...
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Quartet
1994
Milner
8/2
Stephen Milner is a solicitor, but he fits uneasily into the world of Lewis Strange and Partners, who are an upmarket firm of solicitors. The film fol...
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Milner
1980
Drake's Venture
5.75/4
Sir Francis Drake circumnavigates the world in search of adventure and treasure.
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Drake's Venture
1980
Dreams of Leaving
7/1
William came to work in Fleet Street in 1971. London meant girls, as many girls as he could find. Then he met Caroline and so it began, that very stra...
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Dreams of Leaving
1995
Mrs Hartley and the Growth Centre
0/0
When a shy young man arrives on her doorstep, Alice Hartley grabs the chance to escape from her loveless marriage. She and Michael open a Growth Centr...
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Mrs Hartley and the Growth Centre
1980
'Tis Pity She's a Whore
6/2
Lord Sorenzo marries the beautiful young Annabella, but unbeknownst to him, she is pregnant as a result of an incestuous relationship with her brother...
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'Tis Pity She's a Whore
1994
Black Beauty
6.724/355
The fates of horses, and the people who own and command them, are revealed as Black Beauty narrates the circle of his life.
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Black Beauty
1995
Restoration
6.129/143
An aspiring young physician, Robert Merivel found himself in the service of King Charles II and saves the life of someone close to the King. Merivel j...
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Restoration
2011
Hysteria
6.707/887
Two doctors in Victorian England use manual stimulation of female genitalia to cure their patients' ills, leading to the invention of the vibrator.
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Hysteria
2003
Blackball
5.246/57
Blackball follows the fortunes of Cliff Starkey, a working-class fine of lawn bowls with an exceptional talent. Wanting to take on the Aussies he mana...
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Blackball
1999
Mad Cows
4.409/11
When her TV star husband Alex decides to divorce her so that he can start a career in politics, newly single mother Maddy goes shoplifting and ends up...
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Mad Cows
1977
Black Joy
6.75/8
An innocent and unsophisticated Guyanese immigrant is exposed to the hustlin' way of life in the Brixton ghetto.
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Black Joy
1993
The Entertainer
7/1
Michael Gambon stars in John Osborne's play, set in 1950s Britain, following Archie Rice, a drunken, lecherous, egotistical vaudevillian, whose act is...
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The Entertainer
2002
Unconditional Love
5.987/63
After her husband leaves her, a woman travels to London for the funeral of the pop star, Victor Fox, she's adored all her life. There, she meets the l...
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Unconditional Love
1990
The Saint: The Software Murders
9/1
From his home in California, Simon's friend Jack is investigating the deaths of three prominent scientists. Shortly after making an important discover...
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The Saint: The Software Murders
1989
The Saint: The Brazilian Connection
7.5/2
Sleuth Simon Templar ties a London baby's kidnapping to a black-market baby ring based in Brazil.
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The Saint: The Brazilian Connection
1992
Revolver
10/1
Nick Suster, a secret intelligence agent paralyzed by an assassin's bullet, sets out to track down his assailant and in the process, uncovers a major...
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Revolver
1993
Shuttlecock
3.5/4
Major James Prentis VC is a British spy of World War II and war hero who goes under the code name of "Shuttlecock". Alienated from his family and chil...
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Shuttlecock
1989
Nineteen96
0/0
Britain in the mid-1990s: a divided, violent nation where civil disorder and urban terrorism are on the increase. Scotland Yard detective Commander Ja...
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Nineteen96
1992
The Secret Agent
8.5/2
1992 BBC adaptation of the Joseph Conrad novel of 1907 concerning the mostly inactive spy Alfred Verloc, who is ordered by his superior Mr Vladimir to...
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The Secret Agent
1994
Giorgino
6.422/45
October 1918: After returning to the civil life, the young Doctor Giorgino Volli searches for a group of children, which he had been the care-taker of...
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Giorgino
1967
Much Ado About Nothing
6.333/3
Dame Maggie Smith stars in the 1967 screen version of Franco Zeffirelli's exuberant National Theatre production of Shakespeare's romantic comedy, in w...
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Much Ado About Nothing
2009
The Robbers
0/0
It's Boxing Day and already Karen is making New Year resolutions - chiefly for others - and the family have been burgled,though selectively,causing Su...
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The Robbers
2011
The Broken Santa
0/0
The Brockmans hope to get away for the holiday, but Granddad's sudden illness and trip to the worst hospital ever threatens their plans.
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The Broken Santa
1989
A Beginners Guide to Freud
0/0
An exploration of Sigmund Freud, including his relationship to German nose and throat specialist Dr. Wilhelm Fliess.
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A Beginners Guide to Freud
1980
Dying Day
8/1
A lonely man with punctilious habits listens to a tape cassette of ambient barroom sounds, which include the hushed tones of two men plotting to kill...
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Dying Day
2005
The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse
6.176/98
The fictional world of Royston Vasey is facing apocalypse and the only way to avert disaster is for our nightmarish cast of characters to find a way i...
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The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse
1985
Blake's 7: The Beginning
9/1
In the far future, freedom fighter Roj Blake, framed by the all-powerful but corrupt Galactic Federation, escapes his captors from his sentence to a h...
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