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Bruce Purchase
Born: 2nd Oct 1938 Thames, New Zealand - Died 5th Jun 2008
Dept: Acting
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 51
Film: 29 (57%)
Television: 22 (43%)
Remaining genres not in graph: Documentary, Horror, Family, Action, Fantasy, Animation, Romance, Thriller
Filmography
2007
A 30-minute documentary looking at the writing and production of The Pirate Planet. ... view
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2001
A woman is wrongly accused of murdering her husband in Edwardian London. Just before the outbreak of World War I, Edith Graydon married her boyfriend ... view
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Sir Henry Curtis-Bennett
1999
Esther, the beautiful queen of Persia, intervenes to save the Jewish people from a bloody massacre. ... view
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Hauptmann der Wache
1998
Arrogant businessman Rupert Granger is used to getting everything he wants... everything except Alison. Rupert is determined to win her over, only Ali ... view
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Oldberg
May 1998 (first aired)
Students get involved in a violent Internet-based game, around the same time as a series of murders - is there a connection? ... view
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Pathologist (1 ep.)
1997
A distinguished military leader whose reign was touched by great scandal, shocking betrayals and rousing victories. A simple shepherd boy chosen to be ... view
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Isai
1995
A murderous lust for the British throne sees Richard III descend into madness. Though the setting is transposed to the 1930s, England is torn by civil ... view
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City Gentleman
1992
Frederick is a young medieval French prince with magical powers, turned into a frog by his evil sorceress aunt, who kills his father in a bid to seize ... view
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Additional voices (voice)
1987
A young knight sets out to join King Richards crusaders. Along the way, he encounters The Black Prince who captures children and sells them as slaves ... view
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Simon Nerra
1987
To mark the conclusion of their "Third World Week" celebration, a cricket team in a small English village invites a black cricket team from South Lond ... view
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Fredrick
1984
A Polynesian street-kid and a much older middle-class housewife are both incarcerated in the same mental hospital - she for attempted suicide and he ... view
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Irwin
Sep 1984 (first aired)
In the year 2089, an alien race stalks the land in towering machines known as Tripods. They have taken over the earth and enslaved mankind with a mind ... view
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Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Sep 1984 (first aired)
Freud, also known as Freud: The Life of a Dream, is a 1984 six-part BBC television serial dramatised by Carey Harrison, and starring David Suchet as A ... view
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Professor Nothnagel (1 ep.)
1984
The evil brother of Richard the Lionheart is holding the king for ransom, and only Robin Hood and his band of merry men can save him...for a small fee ... view
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Moishe
1984
Bio-drama tracing the life and career of Polish cardinal Karol Wojtyla from his days as a young activist in Poland to his rise and installation in 197 ... view
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Jerzy Loparicz
1983
Goff and Lytton have a dream – a canal boat of their own on which to cruise the inland waterways. The reality is the boatyard of Josh Adkins and a r ... view
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Goff
1981
After an encounter with the Master, an airline stewardess named Tegan Jovanka becomes an unwitting stowaway aboard the TARDIS as it travels to the pla ... view
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The Captain (archive footage)
1979
The death of King Henry the Fourth and the coronation of King Henry the Fifth. ... view
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Earl of Northumberland
1979
Henry Bolingbroke has now been crowned King of England, but faces a rebellion headed by the embittered Earl of Northumberland and his son (nicknamed ' ... view
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Henry Percy
1979
At the start of World War I, Paul Baumer is a young German patriot, eager to fight. Indoctrinated with propaganda at school, he and his friends eagerl ... view
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Cook (uncredited)
1979
Stephen (Paul Henley) works in a bank. A virgin, he shows no interest in sex, and is cruelly scorned by an aggressive female neighbour when he rebuffs ... view
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Jake
Oct 1979 (first aired)
In the near future, a now-elderly Bernard Quatermass investigates the disappearance of his granddaughter and a mysterious cult. ... view
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Tommy Roach (2 ep.)
1979
Influenced by the social and geopolitical situation of the early nineteen-seventies and the hippie youth movement of the late nineteen-sixties, Quater ... view
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Tommy Roach
1979
The story of G.I. Gurdjieff an Asian mystic who after a lifetimes study developed a form of meditation incorporating modern dance. ... view
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Father Maxim
Apr 1979 (first aired)
David McCallum stars as the rebellious Alan Breck Stewart, and this ambitious serial (a co-production between HTV and Germany's Tele-Munchen) also fea ... view
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Cumberland (1 ep.)
1978
The Doctor and Romana learn the second segment of the Key to Time is on the planet Calufrax. Yet they arrive on a planet called Zanak, which has been ... view
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The Pirate Captain
Sep 1978 (first aired)
A Horseman Riding By is a 13-part BBC television serial produced by Ken Riddington, and adapted by Arden Winch, Alexander Baron, and John Wiles from R ... view
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Parson Augustus Bull (4 ep.)
Jan 1978 (first aired)
A group of convicts and outcasts fight a guerrilla war against the totalitarian Terran Federation from a highly advanced alien spaceship. ... view
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Gola (1 ep.)
1977
In the 1920s, Michael Arlen was one of the most popular and acclaimed writers in the world, but he mysteriously stopped writing altogether. His son tr ... view
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Ernest Hemingway
Sep 1977 (first aired)
An anthology of plays and novels adapted into feature length TV movies, broadcast on BBC2 from September 1977 to April 1979. ... view
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Ernest (1 ep.)
Jun 1977 (first aired)
Supernatural is a 1977 British anthology television programme broadcast on BBC One. Each episode follows the Club of the Damned, where a prospective m ... view
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Herr Steekebeck (1 ep.)
1976
TV-movie version of the Victor Hugo novel. ... view
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Provost
Oct 1976 (first aired)
The New Avengers is a British secret agent fantasy adventure television series broadcast during 1976 and 1977. It is a sequel to the 1960s series The ... view
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Prof. Lopez (1 ep.)
Sep 1976 (first aired)
Acclaimed blackly comic historical drama series. Set amidst a web of power, corruption and lies, it chronicles the reigns of the Roman emperors - Augu ... view
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Sabinus (1 ep.)
Jan 1976 (first aired)
Clayhanger is a British television drama based on Arnold Bennett's novel series of the same name, published between 1910 and 1918, dramatised by Dougl ... view
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Big James (14 ep.)
Dec 1975 (first aired)
Rumpole of the Bailey is a British television series created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer. It stars Leo McKern as Hor ... view
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Leslie Delgado (1 ep.)
1975
A bomb-throwing incident in 1905 sets off a train of events which ends in a murder and a suicide. ... view
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Mr. Michaelis
May 1975 (first aired)
Frank Clancy goes from penniless working-class idealist in the 1930s to superstar journalist and editor in the London of the swinging '60s — but at ... view
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Basil Rudering (1 ep.)
Mar 1974 (first aired)
"Fall of Eagles" is a 13-part British television drama aired by the BBC in 1974. The series portrays historical events from 1848 to 1918, dealing with ... view
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Von Plehve (1 ep.)
1974
In this comedy, set during the Nazi occupation of France, Peter Sellers plays most major male parts, so he stars in nearly every scene, always bumblin ... view
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Colonel Meinertzhagen (uncredited)
1973
A retired entertainer makes his living as a street musician on the streets of London. Two young children befriend the old musician, brightening his ot ... view
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Policeman
May 1973 (first aired)
A Picture of Katherine Mansfield is a 1973 BBC television drama series starring Vanessa Redgrave as the title character. The series included dramatiza ... view
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Father (6 ep.)
1971
Mary Stuart, who was named Queen of Scotland when she was only six days old, is the last Roman Catholic ruler of Scotland. She is imprisoned at the ag ... view
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Morton
1971
Scotland, 11th century. Driven by the twisted prophecy of three witches and the ruthless ambition of his wife, warlord Macbeth, bold and brave, but al ... view
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Caithness
Oct 1970 (first aired)
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 tha ... view
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Jake (1 ep.)
Goff (1 ep.)
Feb 1970 (first aired)
Doomwatch is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC, which ran on BBC 1 between 1970 and 1972. The series was set in the t ... view
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Norman Sylvester (1 ep.)
Jul 1967 (first aired)
Callan is the title of a British television series set in the murky world of espionage. Originally produced by ABC Weekend Television and later Thames ... view
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Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Det. Sgt. Lynn (1 ep.)
1965
General Othello's marriage is destroyed when vengeful Ensign Iago convinces him that his new wife has been unfaithful. ... view
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Senators-Soldiers-Cypriots
Oct 1965 (first aired)
A BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a ... view
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Taffy (1 ep.)
Nov 1963 (first aired)
The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling ... view
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Unknown/various (0 ep.)
Captain (4 ep.)
Dec 1951 (first aired)
Long-running anthology program sponsored by Hallmark Cards. Beginning in 1951 and continuing into 2019, the series received 80 Emmy Awards, 24 Christo ... view
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Cook (1 ep.)