James Laurenson
James Laurenson (1940-2024) was a New Zealand born actor predominantly based in the UK.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.0635 |
| Birthday | 1940-02-17 |
| Place of Birth | Marton, New Zealand |
| Also Known As | James Lawrenson, James Laurensen, |
1982
Pink Floyd: The Wall
7.951/1706
A troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation from everyone.
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Pink Floyd: The Wall
1981
The Monster Club
5.8/126
A vampire attacks a horror author on the street and then invites him to a nearby club as a gesture of gratitude, which turns out to be a meeting place...
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The Monster Club
1996
The Cold Light of Day
5/21
A troubled detective befriends a single woman and her daughter with the intention of using them as bait for a serial killer.
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The Cold Light of Day
2014
The Riot Club
5.896/1030
Two first-year students at Oxford University join a secret society and learn that their reputations can be made or destroyed over the course of one ev...
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The Riot Club
1996
Sharpe's Regiment
6.984/31
June, 1813.
Major Richard Sharpe's men are in mortal danger - not from the French, but from the bureaucrats of Whitehall. Unless reinforcements can b...
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Sharpe's Regiment
1996
Sharpe's Siege
7.203/32
Winter, 1813.
Sharpe marries his sweetheart, Jane Gibbons, but has to leave her immediately to go on a dangerous mission in the Pyrenees, to capture...
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Sharpe's Siege
1996
Sharpe's Mission
6.891/32
France, 1813. Wellington orders Sharpe to join the dashing colonel Brand on a hazardous journey behind French enemy lines with the aim of blowing up...
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Sharpe's Mission
1984
Heartbreakers
5.25/20
Blue, a yet-to-be discovered painter, is left by his longtime girlfriend because she considers him too immature for a lasting relationship. Eli, Blue'...
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Heartbreakers
1971
Assault
5.45/30
After a schoolgirl is raped while taking a short cut through the local woods, and another murdered a few days later, the police are baffled. With the...
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Assault
1997
Sharpe's Revenge
7.155/29
Toulouse, April 1814. The Peninsula war is finally over for Britain and its allies, but the action does not end here for Sharpe. He is set up once ag...
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Sharpe's Revenge
1987
The Man Who Fell to Earth
5.625/8
An alien lands on Earth, and decides that he needs to a job in order to raise money to build a spaceship so he can return to his home planet.
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The Man Who Fell to Earth
1990
The Care of Time
4.8/4
Robert Halliday is coerced into helping Karlis Zander, an international fixer, into editing a Russian terrorist's memoirs and ghostwriting an exposé o...
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The Care of Time
1969
Women in Love
6.575/140
Growing up in the sheltered confines of a 1920s English coal-mining community, free-spirited sisters Gudrun and Ursula explore erotic love with a weal...
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Women in Love
2003
AfterLife
5.5/2
High-flying journalist Kenny Brogan (Kevin McKidd) is working on the story that could make his career when he is told his mother is terminally ill. Wi...
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AfterLife
2015
The Comedy of Errors - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
0/0
Basing his plot on a farce by Plautus, Shakespeare caps the mayhem of his Roman original to build up a hectic tale of violent cross-purposes, furious...
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The Comedy of Errors - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
2000
This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper
7/1
This is a dramatisation of the real-life investigation into the notorious Yorkshire Ripper murders of the late 1970s, showing the effect that it had o...
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This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper
2022
Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical
6.797/842
An extraordinary young girl discovers her superpower and summons the remarkable courage, against all odds, to help others change their stories, whilst...
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Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical
2012
Private Peaceful
6.6/46
Set in the fields of Devon and the WW1 battlefields of Flanders, two brothers fall for the same girl while contending with the pressures of their feud...
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Private Peaceful
1976
Old Man March Is Dead
0/0
In rural New Zealand an alcoholic ex-soldier is desperate to obtain more liquor. His family try to keep liquor away from him.
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Old Man March Is Dead
1970
Edward II
4.857/7
England, 14th century. King Edward II falls in love with Piers Gaveston, a young man of humble origins, whom he honors with favors and titles of nobil...
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Edward II
1997
Sharpe: The Legend
6.125/8
Several years after the battle of Waterloo, a former soldier from Shoreditch sits in a London inn reminiscing about the brave and determined officer...
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Sharpe: The Legend
1969
The Magic Christian
5.765/49
Sir Guy Grand, the richest man in the world, adopts a homeless man, Youngman. Together, they set out to prove that anyone--and anything--can be bought...
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The Magic Christian
1984
Paint Me a Murder
8.5/2
Luke Lorenz is a artist whose paintings don't sell. His imaginative wife Sandra reasons that sales of his works would increase tenfold if he were to d...
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Paint Me a Murder
1990
Rainbow Drive
5/9
A Hollywood multiple murder is investigated by a homicide cop, despite high-placed efforts to cover up the crime.
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Rainbow Drive
2011
National Theatre Live: The Cherry Orchard
8.5/2
Madame Ranevskaya is a spoiled, aging aristocratic lady who returns from a trip to Paris to face the loss of her magnificent Cherry Orchard estate aft...
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National Theatre Live: The Cherry Orchard
2011
One Day
7.42/4618
After spending the night together on the eve of their college graduation, Dexter and Emma are shown each year on the same date to see where they are i...
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One Day
2010
National Theatre Live: Hamlet
7.8/5
A 2010 broadcast of Hamlet returns to cinemas as part of the NT's 50th anniversary celebrations. Following his celebrated performances at the Nationa...
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National Theatre Live: Hamlet
1976
The Witches of Pendle
5.5/2
A BBC dramatization of the Pendle witch trials of Lancashire, England that occurred in 1616.
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The Witches of Pendle
1993
A House in the Hills
5.609/23
Aspiring actress Alex Weaver eagerly accepts an offer to look after a luxury house in the hills while the wealthy owners depart for a weekend's sailin...
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A House in the Hills
1971
The Man in the Sidecar
10/1
Examines the relationship between Edith, a famous and successful novelist, and her writer husband, and how her own domestic situation is paralleled in...
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The Man in the Sidecar
1974
The Turn of the Screw
6.6/13
In a mid-19th century Essex country house, a young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted by ghosts and t...
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The Turn of the Screw
1974
The Prison
0/0
A successful Paris magazine proprietor embarks on a destructive voyage of self-discovery after his wife shoots dead her own sister, with whom he has h...
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The Prison
2002
The Cat's Meow
5.8/137
Semi-true story of the Hollywood murder that occurred at a star-studded gathering aboard William Randolph Hearst's yacht in 1924.
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The Cat's Meow
1990
Project: Tinman
4.5/2
A mechanical man with a moral code and soul looking for adventure and his creator after escaping the military. He attempts to discover the reasons wh...
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Project: Tinman
1999
Dead Bolt Dead
9/1
Dead Bolt Dead takes a twisted look at the dark underworld of organised crime, with its assassins, its bosses, its drivers and its sharply suited thug...
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Dead Bolt Dead
1989
Thieves in the Night
7/1
"But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night." Experiences in a kibbutz, it sets up a stage in describing the historical roots of the co...
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Thieves in the Night
1975
Children of the Sun
0/0
A group of travellers find themselves stranded at a strange airport.
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Children of the Sun
1997
The Vanishing Man
7/1
While Nick Cameron is returning to England from the continent with mysterious cargo in the cabin section of his small aircraft, he is thrown off-cours...
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The Vanishing Man
1970
The Tragedy of King Richard II
7/1
The Tragedy of King Richard II, by William Shakespeare. The actions and repercussions of a proud King, whose vanity and selfishness lead to his downfa...
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The Tragedy of King Richard II
1989
Countdown to War
6.667/3
Based on a play, the story details the dramatic negotiations between UK, France, Poland, Nazi-Germany and USSR from the day Czechoslovakia fell, until...
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Countdown to War
1980
Jude
0/0
Twelve-year-old Jude has never met Dick, his father. One Sunday afternoon Dick impulsively engineers a meeting, which has distressing consequences.
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Jude
2003
Three Blind Mice
4.1/24
Thomas is a talented computer programmer living in a vibrant, urban metropolis. Lonely and unsure about life, he finds solitude in the world of intern...
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Three Blind Mice
1974
The Lady from the Sea
6/2
A lighthouse keeper's daughter, lives her opportunist marital life, until her past lover appears in her life.
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The Lady from the Sea
2011
Holy Flying Circus
6.3/36
A fantastical re-imagining of the events of 1979, when Monty Python made Life of Brian and the debate about what is an acceptable subject for comedy w...
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Holy Flying Circus
1978
Quiet as a Nun
8/1
A reporter is asked to look into the mysterious death of a nun who died in a locked room at a convent. She had recently inherited a fortune. The repor...
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Quiet as a Nun
1976
The Winter Warrior
9/1
The english villages are under siege by Viking invaders, leaving destruction and fear in their wake.
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The Winter Warrior
2008
Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley
6.7/9
A light hearted look at future Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's rise from research chemist in 1949 to becoming MP for Finchley in 1959, encompassing...
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Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley
1970
Hamlet
7/1
Hamlet suspects his uncle has murdered his father to claim the throne of Denmark and the hand of Hamlet's mother, but the prince cannot decide whether...
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