Kay Walsh

Kay Walsh

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Kay Walsh  (born Kathleen Walsh, 15 November 1911,Chelsea, London, England; died 16 April 2005, Chelsea, London) was an English actress and dancer. She grew up in Pimlico, brought up by her grandmother. She began her career as a dancer in West End music halls. Walsh made her film debut in How's Chances? (1934) in a small part, and had a larger role in another 1934 film, Get Your Man. She continued to act in "quota quickies" films for several years. Walsh first met David Lean, then a film editor, in 1936, during the filming of Secret Of Stamboul. They began a relationship and Walsh broke off her engagement to Pownell Pellew. Walsh and Lean married on 23 November 1940. She moved on to higher-prestige films with appearances in two Noel Coward-scripted films, In Which We Serve (1942) and This Happy Breed (1944), both directed by Lean. Walsh had campaigned for Lean to receive co-director credit on In Which We Serve. Walsh contributed dialogue to the 1938 film of Pygmalion, and also devised the scenario for the closing sequence of Lean's film adaptation of Great Expectations (1946), for which she received a writing credit on the latter film. She also devised the opening sequence of Lean's adaptation of Oliver Twist (1948), as well as performing the role of Nancy. Walsh and Lean divorced in 1949, on grounds of infidelity based on Lean's relationship with Ann Todd. Walsh continued to work as a character actress in films through the 1950s, including films with Alfred Hitchcock and Ronald Neame. Her own favourite film role was that of the barmaid Miss D. Coker in Neame's 1958 film of The Horse's Mouth, with Alec Guinness. Between films, she appeared regularly in plays and farces at the Strand and Aldwych Theatres, directed by Basil Dean. She was a semi-regular on the 1979 Anglo-Polish TV series Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. She remained active in films until her retirement in 1981, after the film Night Crossing. Walsh later lived in retirement in London. She died at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital from multiple burns, following an accident, aged 93. Her second marriage was to the Canadian psychologist Elliott Jaques, and they adopted a daughter, Gemma, in 1956. This marriage also ended in divorce. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kay Walsh, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

  • Title: Kay Walsh
  • Popularity: 1.948
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1911-11-15
  • Place of Birth: Chelsea, London, England, UK
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  • Also Known As: Kathleen "Kay" Walsh, Kathleen Walsh
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Kay Walsh Movies

  • 1965
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    A Study in Terror

    A Study in Terror

    6.3 1965 HD

    When Watson reads from the newspaper there have been two similar murders near Whitechapel in a few days, Sherlock Holmes' sharp deductive is...

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  • 1950
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    Stage Fright

    Stage Fright

    6.8 1950 HD

    A struggling actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence when he's accused of murdering the husband of a high-society entertainer.

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  • 1948
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    Oliver Twist

    Oliver Twist

    7.473 1948 HD

    When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice....

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  • 1955
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    Cast a Dark Shadow

    Cast a Dark Shadow

    6.3 1955 HD

    Edward "Teddy" Bare is a ruthless schemer who thinks he's hit the big time when he kills his older wife, believing he will inherit a fortune. When...

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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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  • 1970
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    Scrooge

    Scrooge

    6.9 1970 HD

    A musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic ghost tale starring Albert Finney.

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  • 1963
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    Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow

    Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow

    7 1963 HD

    English vicar Dr. Syn becomes a scarecrow on horseback by night to thwart King George III's taxmen.

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  • 1960
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    Tunes of Glory

    Tunes of Glory

    7.1 1960 HD

    Following World War II in peacetime Scotland, brigade headquarters replaces commanding officer Major Jock Sinclair, a boisterous battalion leader,...

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  • 1958
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    The Horse's Mouth

    The Horse's Mouth

    6.75 1958 HD

    Gulley Jimson is a boorish aging artist recently released from prison. A swindler in search of his next art project, he hunkers down in the penthouse...

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  • 1953
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    Young Bess

    Young Bess

    5.9 1953 HD

    The mother died under the executioner's axe; the daughter rose to become England's greatest monarch -- the brilliant and cunning Queen Elizabeth I....

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  • 1950
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    Last Holiday

    Last Holiday

    7.3 1950 HD

    George Bird is a salesman of agricultural machinery who finds out that he hasn't long to live. On his doctor's advice, he goes to an exclusive...

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  • 1947
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    The October Man

    The October Man

    6.2 1947 HD

    Jim Ackland, who suffers from a head injury sustained in a bus crash, is the chief suspect in a murder hunt, when a girl that he has just met is...

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  • 1950
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    The Magnet

    The Magnet

    6.2 1950 HD

    A classic Ealing comedy in which a young boy steals a magnet and becomes a hero.

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  • 1954
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    The Rainbow Jacket

    The Rainbow Jacket

    6.9 1954 HD

    A champion jockey is banned from racing so spends his time helping a young lad to become the next champion.

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  • 1962
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    The L-Shaped Room

    The L-Shaped Room

    6.7 1962 HD

    Jane is young, French, pregnant and unmarried. Bucking convention, she is uninterested in settling with her baby's father or getting an abortion....

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  • 2008
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    Walt Disney Treasures - Dr. Syn: The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh

    Walt Disney Treasures - Dr. Syn: The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh

    8.3 2008 HD

    "Scarecrow! Scarecrow! The soldiers of the King feared his name!" And so begins the hard-to-forget theme song to The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh. Walt...

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  • 1962
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    Lunch Hour

    Lunch Hour

    6.8 1962 HD

    A young female designer is on the brink of an affair with a married male executive at the company where she works. The film tells the story of their...

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  • 1938
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    I See Ice

    I See Ice

    8.1 1938 HD

    George Bright is a props man in an ice ballet company, and a keen amateur photographer who accidentally snaps crooks at work. Comic complications...

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  • 1952
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    Hunted

    Hunted

    6.6 1952 HD

    An unexpected bond develops between a fugitive killer and a runaway orphan on an odyssey across England.

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  • 1969
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    Journey to the Unknown

    Journey to the Unknown

    1 1969 HD

    TV Movie consisting of two episodes of the UK TV series "Journey to the Unknown" (1968): 'Matakitas is Coming' (episode 1.3) and 'The Last Visitor'...

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  • 1939
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    Sons of the Sea

    Sons of the Sea

    6.8 1939 HD

    The head of Dartmouth Training College has been murdered, and his successor, Captain Hyde, suspects that he himself may have been the intended...

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  • 1935
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    A Little Bit of Bluff

    A Little Bit of Bluff

    1 1935 HD

    The boyfriend of an admiral's daughter poses as a detective in order to hunt missing emerald.

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  • 1961
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    Greyfriars Bobby

    Greyfriars Bobby

    6.8 1961 HD

    In Scotland 1865, An old shepherd and his little Skye terrier go to Edinburgh. But when the shepherd dies of pneumonia, the dog remains faithful to...

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  • 1970
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    Connecting Rooms

    Connecting Rooms

    6 1970 HD

    Explores the relationships shared by the residents of a seedy boarding house in London. Based on the play The Cellist, by Marion Hart.

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  • 1936
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    Secret of Stamboul

    Secret of Stamboul

    6 1936 HD

    A man travels to Istanbul to try and prevent a revolution.

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  • 1937
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    Keep Fit

    Keep Fit

    5.6 1937 HD

    A weak, cowardly barber gets fit to win over a beautiful woman. However, she prefers his muscle-bound rival until George challenges him to a boxing...

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  • 1954
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    Lease of Life

    Lease of Life

    7.4 1954 HD

    The parson of a small rural community knows he is dying and this makes him reconsider his life so far and what he can still do to help the community.

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  • 1940
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    The Chinese Bungalow

    The Chinese Bungalow

    4.2 1940 HD

    All but a prisoner in the exotic Malayan retreat she shares with her Chinese financier husband, Yuan Sing (Paul Lukas), British singer Sadie Merivale...

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  • 1964
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    The Beauty Jungle

    The Beauty Jungle

    5.2 1964 HD

    A Bristol typist joins the world of beauty contests.

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  • 1963
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    80,000 Suspects

    80,000 Suspects

    6.5 1963 HD

    A doctor's already-shaky marriage is tested to an even greater extent when he has to contend with a smallpox epidemic.

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  • 1939
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    The Mind of Mr. Reeder

    The Mind of Mr. Reeder

    1 1939 HD

    Mr. Reeder, a somewhat eccentric old gentleman employed by the Director of Public Prosecutions, gets it into his head to break up a counterfeiting...

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  • 1962
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    Reach for Glory

    Reach for Glory

    5.8 1962 HD

    During World War II, teenage boys in a small English town are consumed with jingoism and brutal war games, hoping dearly that the war won't end...

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  • 1942
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    In Which We Serve

    In Which We Serve

    6.8 1942 HD

    The story of the HMS Torrin, from its construction to its sinking in the Mediterranean during action in World War II. The ship's first and only...

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  • 1948
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    Vice Versa

    Vice Versa

    6.3 1948 HD

    Businessman Paul Bultitude is sending his son Dick to a boarding school. While holding a magic stone from India, he wishes that he could be young...

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  • 1940
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    The Middle Watch

    The Middle Watch

    5 1940 HD

    Through a series of unforeseen events, two glamorous young ladies find that they are obliged to spend the night on board the battleship HMS Falcon,...

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  • 1969
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    Taste of Excitement

    Taste of Excitement

    5.9 1969 HD

    A man has been killed on the Dover/Boulogne car ferry. What is the connection between him and the attempts being made to kill Jane Kerrell, a young...

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  • 1939
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    The Missing People

    The Missing People

    1 1939 HD

    27 well-to-do people have all vanished under similar circumstances. J.G. Reeder, an elderly gentleman who fancies himself a detective, decides to...

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  • 1956
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    Now and Forever

    Now and Forever

    7 1956 HD

    A rich young society girl falls in love with a car mechanic. Her family is appalled and stops her seeing him. The girl attempts to commit suicide and...

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  • 1944
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    This Happy Breed

    This Happy Breed

    7.087 1944 HD

    In 1919, Frank Gibbons returns home from army duty and moves into a middle-class row house, bringing with him wife Ethel, carping mother-in-law Mrs....

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  • 1972
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    The Ruling Class

    The Ruling Class

    6.5 1972 HD

    When the Earl of Gurney dies in a cross-dressing accident, his schizophrenic son, Jack, inherits the Gurney estate. Jack is not the average nobleman;...

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  • 1953
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    Gilbert Harding Speaking of Murder

    Gilbert Harding Speaking of Murder

    1 1953 HD

    lation of 3 stories, "The Missing Passenger", "Falstaff's Fur Coat" and "Thirty Days To Die". Originally part of the Danziger Brothers' UK series...

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  • 1970
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    The Virgin and the Gypsy

    The Virgin and the Gypsy

    2.2 1970 HD

    Film adaptation from the novel by D.H. Lawrence, discovered after the celebrated author's death in 1930, a romantic love story tells of a prim young...

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  • 1952
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    The Magic Box

    The Magic Box

    6.3 1952 HD

    Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to...

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  • 1936
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    All That Glitters

    All That Glitters

    1 1936 HD

    A bank manager who has successfully bought into a lucrative gold mine manages to foil the plot of some confidence tricksters who plan to swindle him...

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  • 1952
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    Meet Me Tonight

    Meet Me Tonight

    6.7 1952 HD

    Meet Me Tonight was the American title for the British-filmed Tonight at 8:30, adapted from the Noel Coward stage production of the same name.

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  • 1967
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    Bikini Paradise

    Bikini Paradise

    6 1967 HD

    A pair of U.S. Navy officers are marooned on a South Pacific island with a group of women whom want to use them for marriage and mating purposes.

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  • 1965
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    He Who Rides a Tiger

    He Who Rides a Tiger

    1 1965 HD

    Peter Rayston, has been in and out of prison most of his life. At 30, he is released for the eighth time, after serving a sentence for housebreaking....

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  • 1951
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    Encore

    Encore

    6.2 1951 HD

    Encore is a 1951 anthology film composed of adaptations of three short stories by W. Somerset Maugham: "The Ant and the Grasshopper", directed by...

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  • 1940
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    The Second Mr. Bush

    The Second Mr. Bush

    5 1940 HD

    A writer poses as a shy butterfly hunter who has a fortune and is hounded by reporters.

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  • 1935
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    The Luck of the Irish

    The Luck of the Irish

    1 1935 HD

    'The story of an Irishman's attempts to save his ancestral home through the fortunes of his racehorse.' (Northern Ireland Screen Digital Film Archive)

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  • 1946
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    Great Expectations

    Great Expectations

    7.3 1946 HD

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  • 1965
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    Gideon's Way

    Gideon's Way

    6.8 1965 HD

    Gideon's Way is a British television crime series made by ITC Entertainment in 1964/65, based on the novels by John Creasey. The series was made at...

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  • 1955
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    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    7.736 1955 HD

    A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.

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  • 1966
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    ABC Stage 67

    ABC Stage 67

    6 1966 HD

    ABC Stage 67 is the umbrella title for a series of 26 weekly shows that included dramas, variety shows, documentaries, and original musicals. It...

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  • 1963
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    The Human Jungle

    The Human Jungle

    8.2 1963 HD

    The Human Jungle is a British TV series about a psychiatrist, made for ABC Television by the small production company Independent Artists for...

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  • 1979
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    Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson

    Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson

    6 1979 HD

    Shot in Polish-British co-production series of short stories based on themes of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - "father" of the world's most famous...

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  • 1968
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    Journey to the Unknown

    Journey to the Unknown

    6.3 1968 HD

    A British television anthology series. The series has a fantasy, science fiction and supernatural theme, very similar to the American television...

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  • 1954
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    The Wonderful World of Disney

    The Wonderful World of Disney

    7.607 1954 HD

    Walt Disney Productions has produced an anthology television series under several different titles since 1954. The original version of the series...

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