Patrick Troughton
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1920-03-25
Locus Natus: Mill Hill, London, England, UK
Et ut:
The Omen
Immediately after their miscarriage, the US diplomat Robert Thorn adopts the newborn Damien without the knowledge of his wife. Yet what he...
release : 1976.06.25popularis : 39.144
Jason and the Argonauts
Jason, a fearless sailor and explorer, returns to his home land of Thessaly after a long voyage to claim his rightful throne. He learns, however,...
release : 1963.06.19popularis : 18.116
Hamlet
Winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor, Sir Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet continues to be the most compelling version...
release : 1948.12.10popularis : 15.465
Doctor Who: The Evil of the Daleks
The Daleks draft the Second Doctor into distilling the Human Factor. Once implanted, it will make the Dalek race invincible. Jamie’s faith in...
release : 2021.09.26popularis : 0.975
The Viking Queen
Set in ancient Britain, at a time when much of Europe was ruled with harsh tyranny by Rome, a tribe of Britons led by Selina, set out to defy the...
release : 1967.03.25popularis : 5.173
The Black Knight
John, a blacksmith and swordsmith, is tutored at Camelot. As a commoner, he can't hope to win the hand of Lady Linet, daughter of the Earl of...
release : 1954.08.26popularis : 6.493
Doctor Who: The Faceless Ones
The Doctor and his friends Ben, Polly and Jamie arrive at Gatwick airport. They quickly stumble upon an alien plot, centring upon the mysterious...
release : 2020.03.16popularis : 0.57
Doctor Who: The Abominable Snowmen
The Doctor revisits the Himalayas because he wants to return an ancient relic he was given many centuries ago. On arriving however, the Doctor is...
release : 2022.09.05popularis : 0.43
Scars of Dracula
The Prince of Darkness casts his undead shadow once more over the cursed village of Kleinenberg when his ashes are splashed with bat's blood and...
release : 1970.11.08popularis : 10.171
Edward & Mrs. Simpson
While still the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII meets the married American socialite, Wallis Simpson. Their relationship causes furor in the...
release : 1978.11.06popularis : 1.55
And Did Those Feet ?
Lord Fountain hates his illegitimate twin boys as he does not seem to be able to produce legitimate heirs.
release : 1965.06.02popularis : 1.229
The Phantom of the Opera
A London opera house is haunted by tragic events on its opening night, but when its star is kidnapped, a producer tracks down the Phantom who is...
release : 1962.06.25popularis : 6.958
The Black Torment
A lord returns to his manor with his new wife, to hear rumours that he had already secretly returned and had committed several murders. Has he lost...
release : 1964.10.19popularis : 2.131
Escape
A convict sentenced to three years for killing a detective escapes from a prison and goes on the run aided by a local girl.
release : 1948.03.01popularis : 2.64
The Red Shoes
In this classic drama, Vicky Page is an aspiring ballerina torn between her dedication to dance and her desire to love. While her imperious...
release : 1948.09.06popularis : 19.723
White Corridors
White Corridors was based on Yeoman Hospital, a novel by Helen Ashton. Told episodically, the story concentrates on the day-to-day activities in a...
release : 1951.01.12popularis : 2.878
The Woman with No Name
This is a British drama film from 1950 about a young woman in London in WW2 with amnesia.
release : 1950.10.31popularis : 2.258
Talking Doctor Who
As part of the sixtieth anniversary celebrations of Doctor Who, David Tennant time-travels back through the BBC archives to tell the story of the...
release : 2023.11.01popularis : 1.471
Doctor Who: The Web of Fear - Episode 3
Jamie tries to evade Yeti in the tunnels of the London Underground. Meanwhile, The Doctor and Victoria meet a potential new ally - Colonel...
release : 2021.08.16popularis : 2.396
Doctor Who: The Underwater Menace
The Doctor and his friends find themselves in the lost city of Atlantis, where the crazed Professor Zaroff has convinced the people of Atlantis that...
release : 2023.11.13popularis : 1.338
Doctor Who: The Macra Terror
The original 1967 master recordings of ‘The Macra Terror’ were lost soon after the programme’s original transmission. However,...
release : 2019.03.25popularis : 0.746
The Moonraker
After the battle of Worcester at the end of the Civil War, the main aim of Oliver Cromwell's Commonwealth is to capture Charles Stuart. The future...
release : 1958.08.02popularis : 1.922
Chance of a Lifetime
The workers in a small plough factory take over the firm, but when a large order falls through, the old management come back to help out.
release : 1950.04.24popularis : 1.782
Longleat '83: The Lost Footage
In April 1983, Roger Stevens and James Russell were given “Access All Areas” passes to the BBC’s Doctor Who celebrations at...
release : 2015.10.01popularis : 1.894
Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger
Princess Farah refuses to marry Sinbad until Prince Kassim, her brother, is able to give his consent. However, the Prince's wicked stepmother, Queen...
release : 1977.07.15popularis : 12.921
Doctor Who: The Enemy of the World
On Earth in 2018, the Doctor and his companions are enmeshed in a deadly web of intrigue thanks to his uncanny resemblance to the...
release : 1968.01.27popularis : 2.006
The Gorgon
In the early 20th century a village experienced a series of inexplicable murders. All the victims were young men who had been turned to stone. The...
release : 1964.10.18popularis : 10.266
The Franchise Affair
An English country lawyer weighs the case of a schoolgirl who claims she was kidnapped by two women.
release : 1951.02.19popularis : 1.317
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
In 2013, something terrible is awakening in London's National Gallery; in 1562, a murderous plot is afoot in Elizabethan England; and somewhere in...
release : 2013.11.23popularis : 12.537
Troughton in Tibet: Making 'The Abominable Snowmen'
A look at the making of the Doctor Who (1963) story "The Abominable Snowmen" (1967).
release : 2022.09.05popularis : 0.934
The Evil of the Daleks: Commentary
Commentary of episode 2 of Evil of the Daleks by Deborah Watling
release : 2004.11.01popularis : 0.297
Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks
Following the Doctor's regeneration into a new, younger body, the TARDIS lands at an Earth colony on the planet Vulcan in the far future. Mistaken...
release : 2016.11.05popularis : 1.833
Doctor Who: The Tomb of the Cybermen
Aided by his two assistants Jamie and Victoria, the Doctor lands the TARDIS on Telos, last resting place of the infamous Cybermen. There he discovers...
release : 1967.09.23popularis : 1.032
Don't Touch Him, He Might Resent It
A group of business enjoying a lavish night on expenses at the Atlantis Hotel fear it is the end of the road for their fradulent collaboration when...
release : 1970.05.04popularis : 3.516
A Hitch in Time
Two children help an eccentric professor test his new time machine.
release : 1978.05.05popularis : 1.811
John Diamond
William Jones runs away from home, haunted by the memory of his father. To lay this ghost, he must search the back streets of London for a man called...
release : 1981.12.29popularis : 1.153
1984
In a totalitarian future society, a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.
release : 1956.03.06popularis : 14.628
Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks
Following the Doctor's regeneration into a new, younger body, the TARDIS lands at an Earth colony on the planet Vulcan in the far future. Mistaken...
release : 1966.11.05popularis : 1.144
Doctor Who: The Invasion
The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe return to Earth and become embroiled in the schemes of Tobias Vaughn. They meet up with an old friend, Colonel (now...
release : 1968.12.21popularis : 1.599
Doctor Who: The Krotons
The TARDIS arrives on the unnamed planet of the Gonds, who are ruled and taught in a form of self-perpetuating slavery by the alien Krotons —...
release : 1969.01.18popularis : 1.078
Doctor Who: The Seeds of Death
The TARDIS lands in a space museum on Earth in the late 21st century, where the Second Doctor, Jamie and Zoe learn that contact has been lost between...
release : 1969.03.01popularis : 0.829
Doctor Who: The Space Pirates
The TARDIS materialises in Earth's future on a space beacon just before it is attacked by pirates. The travellers find themselves trapped in a sealed...
release : 1969.04.12popularis : 3.405
Doctor Who: The War Games
The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe arrive on an unnamed planet. At first believing themselves in the midst of World War I, they realise it to be one of many...
release : 1969.06.21popularis : 2.499
Doctor Who: The Two Doctors
Suddenly gripped by a memory of being executed in his second incarnation, the Sixth Doctor travels to Seville to save his past self and ensure his...
release : 1985.03.02popularis : 2.28
Doctor Who: The Highlanders
The time travellers arrive in Scotland just after the Battle of Culloden. The Second Doctor gains the trust of a small band of fleeing Jacobites by...
release : 1967.01.07popularis : 1.286
Doctor Who: The Underwater Menace
The TARDIS arrives on an extinct volcanic island. Before long, the travellers are captured and taken into the depths of the Earth, where they find a...
release : 1967.02.04popularis : 0.736
Doctor Who: The Three Doctors
Time itself is in peril! The Time Lords and UNIT find themselves besieged by a mythic figure from the Time Lords' past hell-bent on destruction. The...
release : 1973.01.20popularis : 1.828
Doctor Who: The Moonbase
The TARDIS arrives in 2070 on the Moon, where a weather control station under the command of a man named Hobson is in the grip of a plague epidemic...
release : 1967.03.04popularis : 0.486
Doctor Who: The Macra Terror
When the Second Doctor, Polly, Ben and Jamie visit a human colony that appears to be one big holiday camp, they think they have come across a truly...
release : 1967.04.01popularis : 3.294
Doctor Who: The Faceless Ones
The TARDIS arrives on Earth in July, 1966, on a runway at Gatwick Airport. Polly witnesses a murder in a nearby hangar and is then kidnapped by the...
release : 1967.05.13popularis : 1.067
Doctor Who: The Evil of the Daleks
The Daleks draft the Second Doctor into distilling the Human Factor. Once implanted, it will make the Dalek race invincible. Jamie's faith in the...
release : 1967.07.01popularis : 0.745
Doctor Who: The Abominable Snowmen
Mysterious forces are at work in 1930s Tibet. The once gentle Yeti have turned savage and besieged a Buddhist monastery. The Second Doctor, Jamie and...
release : 1967.11.04popularis : 1.012
Doctor Who: The Ice Warriors
The TARDIS arrives on Earth in a new ice age. The travellers make their way into a base where scientists, commanded by Leader Clent, are using an...
release : 1967.12.16popularis : 1.269
Doctor Who: The Web of Fear
The TARDIS narrowly avoids becoming engulfed in a cobwebby substance in space. It arrives in the London Underground railway system, the tunnels of...
release : 1968.03.09popularis : 0.705
Doctor Who: Fury from the Deep
When the TARDIS lands in the sea off the eastern coast of England, the Second Doctor, Jamie, and Victoria investigate a nearby beach, which seems to...
release : 1968.04.20popularis : 1.51
Doctor Who: The Wheel in Space
The Second Doctor and Jamie arrive on what appears to be a space station called the "Wheel in Space" it's here that they meet Zoe Herriot a young ...
release : 1968.06.01popularis : 1.459
Doctor Who: The Dominators
When two belligerent Dominators and their robotic servant Quarks land on the peaceful planet Dulkis planning to drop a radioactive seed into the...
release : 1968.09.07popularis : 0.809
Doctor Who: The Mind Robber
To escape from the volcanic eruption on Dulkis, the Second Doctor uses an emergency unit. It moves the TARDIS out of normal time and space. The...
release : 1968.10.12popularis : 1.136
Treasure Island
Enchanted by the idea of locating treasure buried by Captain Flint, Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey and Jim Hawkins charter a sailing voyage to a...
release : 1950.07.19popularis : 10.953
R.U.R.
A story of robots leading a revolution against their human creators. It explored dehumanization through technology and the failure of a...
release : 1948.03.04popularis : 1.652
Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time
As the Twelfth Doctor nears regeneration, he stumbles on his first incarnation, also refusing to change. It takes a captain, a glass avatar and a...
release : 2017.12.25popularis : 10.285
Nurse Will Make It Better
A woman is hired to care for a young paraplegic girl at her father's estate. Unbeknownst to them, the woman is a devil-worshiper who sets out to...
release : 1975.01.11popularis : 0.89
Waterfront
When ship's fireman Peter McCabe walks out on his long-suffering wife, he leaves her impoverished, with two young daughters and a boy born soon after...
release : 1950.07.26popularis : 5.082
Doctor Who: The Five Doctors
Many incarnations of the Doctors and their old companions are taken out of time and deposited in the Death Zone on Gallifrey. There, they must battle...
release : 1983.11.25popularis : 1.923
Doctor Who: The Tenth Planet
The Doctor's TARDIS lands at the Snowcap space tracking station in Antarctica in December 1986. A routine space mission starts going wrong. When the...
release : 1966.10.29popularis : 1.518
Celebration: Doctor Who in 1983
Producer Steve Broster takes a look back to 1983 and the celebration of Doctor Who's twentieth anniversary, including the production and transmission...
release : 2008.03.03popularis : 1.418
Longleat '83: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
Video footage telling the story of the biggest Doctor Who (1963) convention ever in the UK, "Longleat 83", which was put together to celebrate the...
release : 2001.02.20popularis : 1.308
Patrick Troughton in America
This video details the legendary Patrick Troughton's convention appearances in America using rare and unseen footage, plus interviews from Doctor Who...
release : 2003.05.05popularis : 0.918
Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell
Dr Simon Helder, sentenced to an insane asylum for crimes against humanity, recognises its director as the brilliant Baron Frankenstein, the man...
release : 1974.04.01popularis : 6.542
Wuthering Heights
Adaptation of the novel by Emily Brontë.
release : 1962.05.10popularis : 2.419
Doctor Who: Earthshock
The Doctor and his companions must prevent the Cybermen from bombing the Earth in the 26th century. It is a battle not everyone will survive...
release : 1982.03.16popularis : 1.065
Love Letters on Blue Paper
Why has Sonia taken to writing letters to her husband, posted to him in the letter-box just outside their house – love letters, on blue paper,...
release : 1976.03.02popularis : 0.323
No Defence
Rape is a matter which generates strong emotions. Immediate sympathies go to the victim...
release : 1980.02.14popularis : 2.121
Reluctant Chickens
Malcolm and Jo are eagerly anticipating a quiet retirement but find that their adult children are in no hurry to leave the family home.
release : 1983.04.12popularis : 1.765
P.Q. 17
"That order to scatter was as good as a death sentence to those merchant ships. And there isn't one officer or rating who doesn't agree with me." A...
release : 1981.12.15popularis : 0.845
Richard III
Having helped his brother King Edward IV take the throne of England, the jealous hunchback Richard, Duke of Gloucester, plots to seize power for...
release : 1955.12.13popularis : 8.864
Amy
The story of Amy Johnson who disappeared while piloting a RAF Wellington Bomber
release : 1984.01.02popularis : 1.643
Cardboard Cavalier
Cardboard Cavalier is a 1949 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde and starring Sid Field, Margaret Lockwood and Jerry Desmonde.The film...
release : 1949.03.31popularis : 2.992