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John Pennington

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1939-01-01
Nottinghamshire - England - UK

Known For & Full Filmography26 Titles

#1Play for Today

Drama Series - 1970, 16 episodes as Doctor

6.6 / 10
Drama

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 than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.

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#2Casualty

Drama Series - 1986, 16 episodes as Mr. Curtis

6.2 / 10
DramaSoap

Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.

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#3Peak Practice

Drama Series - 1993, 16 episodes as Coroner

6.5 / 10
Drama

Peak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town in the Derbyshire Peak District — and the doctors who worked there. It ran on ITV from 10 May 1993 to 30 January 2002 and was one of their most successful series at the time. It originally starred Kevin Whately as Dr Jack Kerruish, Amanda Burton as Dr Beth Glover and Simon Shepherd as Dr Will Preston, though the roster of doctors would change many times over the course of the series. Cardale was based on the Staffordshire village of Longnor for the final series, but was previously based in the Derbyshire village of Crich, although certain scenes were filmed at other nearby Derbyshire towns and villages, most notably Matlock, Belper and Ashover.

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#4All Creatures Great and Small

Drama Series - 1978, 16 episodes as Tolly

7.8 / 10
ComedyDrama

The trials and misadventures of the staff at a country veterinary office in Yorkshire. James Herriot, a young animal surgeon, moves to a small Yorkshire town to begin his first job.

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#5Keeping Up Appearances

Drama Series - 1990, 16 episodes as The store official

7.7 / 10
Comedy

Hyacinth Bucket (whose name, she insists, is pronounced "Bouquet") is a suburban housewife in the West Midlands. She would be the first to tell you that she is a gracious hostess, a respected citizen, and a well-connected member of high society. If you don't believe that, just ask her best friend Elizabeth, held captive in Hyacinth's kitchen; or the postmen and neighbours who bristle at the sound of her voice; or Richard, her weary and compliant husband. In fact, Hyacinth's reputation could be as perfect as her new lounge set, if not for her senile father's love of running wild in the nip. Oh, and she would prefer it if her brother-in-law was a sharper dresser. And that her husband was more ambitious. And that her sisters were more presentable. And do take your shoes off before you come in the house, dear. Mind that you don't brush against the wallpaper.

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#6Keeping Up Appearances

Drama Series - 1990, 16 episodes as The Sergeant

7.7 / 10
Comedy

Hyacinth Bucket (whose name, she insists, is pronounced "Bouquet") is a suburban housewife in the West Midlands. She would be the first to tell you that she is a gracious hostess, a respected citizen, and a well-connected member of high society. If you don't believe that, just ask her best friend Elizabeth, held captive in Hyacinth's kitchen; or the postmen and neighbours who bristle at the sound of her voice; or Richard, her weary and compliant husband. In fact, Hyacinth's reputation could be as perfect as her new lounge set, if not for her senile father's love of running wild in the nip. Oh, and she would prefer it if her brother-in-law was a sharper dresser. And that her husband was more ambitious. And that her sisters were more presentable. And do take your shoes off before you come in the house, dear. Mind that you don't brush against the wallpaper.

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#7Only Fools and Horses

Drama Series - 1981, 16 episodes as Vicar

8.1 / 10
Comedy

Only Fools and Horses.... Is a British sitcom created and written by John Sullivan. Seven series were originally transmitted on BBC One from 1981 to 1991, with sixteen sporadic Christmas specials aired until 2003. In working-class Peckham in south-east London, ambitious market trader Derek 'Del Boy' Trotter and his younger half-brother Rodney, explore their highs and lows in life, in particular their attempts to get rich. Initially not an immediate hit and receiving little promotion early on, it later achieved consistently high ratings, and the 1996 episode "Time on Our Hands" (originally billed as the series finale) holds the record for the biggest UK audience for a sitcom episode, attracting 24.3 million viewers. The series bears a significant influence on British culture, contributing several words and phrases to the English language.

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#8Lovejoy

Drama Series - 1986, 16 episodes as Bank Manager

7.4 / 10
ComedyDramaMystery

The adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East Anglia. Within the trade, he has a reputation as a “divvie”, a person with an almost supernatural powers for recognising exceptional items as well as distinguishing genuine antique from clever fakes or forgeries.

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#9The Chief

Drama Series - 1990, 16 episodes as Chief Supt. Hinchcliffe

7.0 / 10
Drama

The Chief is a British crime drama transmitted on ITV from 20 April 1990 to 16 June 1995. Produced by Anglia Television, it centred on the politics at the top of a typical English police force in its continual battle to solve the problems the times, in this case the fictional Eastland of East Anglia.

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#10Dalgliesh

Drama Series - 1983, 16 episodes as Len Morris

6.9 / 10
CrimeDrama

Centred on the cases of P. D. James' gentleman detective Adam Dalgliesh. In addition to his career as a policeman, Dalgliesh is also a published poet and an intensely private man.

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#11Rentaghost

Drama Series - 1976, 16 episodes as Mr McNulty

6.8 / 10
Sci-Fi & FantasyFamilyComedy

After his death, Fred Mumford wants a second chance at achieving the success that eluded him in life. Coming back to Earth as a spirit, he recruits a Victorian gent and a medieval jester to set up 'Rentaghost', a supernatural service for wanted hauntings.

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#12Rentaghost

Drama Series - 1976, 16 episodes as Soldier

6.8 / 10
Sci-Fi & FantasyFamilyComedy

After his death, Fred Mumford wants a second chance at achieving the success that eluded him in life. Coming back to Earth as a spirit, he recruits a Victorian gent and a medieval jester to set up 'Rentaghost', a supernatural service for wanted hauntings.

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#13Enemy at the Door

Drama Series - 1978, 16 episodes as Chaplain

8.2 / 10
DramaWar & Politics

Enemy At The Door is a British television drama series made by London Weekend Television for ITV. The series was shown between 1978 and 1980 and dealt with the German occupation of Guernsey, one of the Channel Islands, during the Second World War. The programme generated a certain amount of criticism in Guernsey, particularly for being obviously filmed on Jersey despite being ostensibly set on Guernsey. The series also marked the TV debut of Anthony Head as a member of the island resistance. The theme music was by Wilfred Josephs.

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#14Citizen Smith

Drama Series - 1977, 16 episodes as Hotel Manager

6.8 / 10
Comedy

Classic BBC comedy starring Robert Lindsay as revolutionary leader Wolfie Smith of the Tooting Popular Front. Hoping to emulate his icons, Wolfie forms the Tooting Popular Front with a small group of his friends. However, he soon finds himself struggling to get his ambitious plans off the ground due to his laid back attitude and lack of organisation.

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#15Just Good Friends

Drama Series - 1983, 16 episodes as Mr Conrad

6.6 / 10
Comedy

A bittersweet sitcom about a couple who meet again five years after he jilted her at the altar.

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#16C.A.T.S. Eyes

Drama Series - 1985, 16 episodes as Jeffrey Mortimer

6.0 / 10
Drama

C.A.T.S. Eyes is a British television series made by TVS for ITV between 1985 and 1987. A spin-off of the series The Gentle Touch, Maggie Forbes leads an all-female detective agency called "Eyes" that secretly operates as a Home Office team known as C.A.T.S. (Covert Activities Thames Section).

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#17Bill Brand

Drama Series - 1976, 16 episodes as Charlie Wade

7.3 / 10
Drama

Following the death of the sitting Labour Party Member of Parliament, Bill Brand is selected as Labour candidate for a Lancashire textile constituency.

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#18Star Maidens

Drama Series - 1976, 16 episodes as Announcer

4.2 / 10
Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Star Maidens is a British-German science-fiction television series created and written by Eric Paice. Utilising a 'battle of the sexes' and role reversal scenario, the planet Medusa, home to a highly evolved and technologically advanced humanoid race, was already ruled by its women when a rogue comet (as seen in the opening credits) knocked it out of its orbit around Proxima Centauri. Drifting through space, the orphan planet's surface became uninhabitable, with the inhabitants surviving in huge underground cities. Jointly produced by Portman Productions, Scottish Television, and Werbung im Rundfunk for ITV, filming took place at Bray Studios and on location in Windsor and Bracknell, Berkshire, and Black Park, Buckinghamshire. The series ran for 13 episodes from 1 September to 1 December 1976.

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#19Juggernaut

Movie - 1974, 2h 15m as Passenger

6.3 / 10
ThrillerAction

A terrorist demands a huge ransom in exchange for information on how to disarm the seven bombs he has planted aboard a trans-Atlantic cruise ship. Inspired by real events.

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#20Shroud for a Nightingale

Drama Series - 1984, 16 episodes as Len Morris

6.4 / 10
Mystery

When a nursing student with a penchant for petty extortion is fatally poisoned during a routine procedure, Commander Dalgliesh and Inspector Massingham must find out

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#21Dracula

Movie - 1974, 2h 15m as Richmond Shipping Clerk

6.3 / 10
DramaHorrorTV Movie

Dracula is searching for a woman who looks like his long dead wife.

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#22A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square

Movie - 1980, 2h 15m as Fletcher

6.0 / 10
CrimeComedyAction

An American ex-con who is trying to go straight is persuaded to be the inside man for an audacious bank job in central London.

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#23The Funny Side of Christmas

Movie - 1982, 2h 15m as Vicar

8.8 / 10
ComedyTV Movie

Skits from: "The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin"; "The Les Dawson Show"; "Yes Minister"; "Only Fools and Horses"; "Three of a Kind"; "Last of the Summer Wine"; "Sorry!"; "Butterflies"; "Smith and Jones"; and "Open All Hours".

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#24Chocky

Movie - 1984, 2h 15m as Inspector Maggs

8.8 / 10
DramaSci-Fi

Matthew Gore is an intelligent boy chosen by a mysterious extraterrestrial visitor to be a source of information about life on Earth. As his schoolwork and artistic talent improve dramatically he arouses the suspicion of powerful groups who wish to tap into the amazing fund of knowledge to which he is now party.

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#25Butterflies Don't Count

Movie - 1978, 2h 15m as Doctor

10.0 / 10
DramaTV Movie

A young priest is put in an agonising dilemma when he hears a confession of a murderer.

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#26Stanley Baxter's Christmas Hamper

Movie - 1985, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

8.8 / 10
Comedy

Stanley Baxter's Christmas Hamper

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