Maurice Thorogood

Acting

Known For & Full Filmography14 Titles

#1Heartbeat

Drama Series - 1992, 16 episodes as Adrian Chiltern

7.2 / 10
CrimeDramaComedy

Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.

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#2The Professionals

Drama Series - 1977, 16 episodes as Doctor

7.6 / 10
Action & AdventureCrimeDrama

The lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their controller, George Cowley. The mandate of CI5 was to fight terrorism and similar high-profile crimes. Cowley, a hard ex-MI5 operative, hand-picked each of his men. Bodie is a cynical ex-SAS paratrooper and mercenary whose nature ran to controlled violence, while his partner, Doyle, comes to CI5 from the regular police force, and is more of an open minded liberal. Their relationship is often contentious, but they are the top men in their field, and the ones to whom Cowley always assigned to the toughest cases.

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#3Playhouse

Drama Series - 1974, 16 episodes as Mysterious Stranger

7.0 / 10
Drama

A one-hour anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas produced by the BBC.

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#4The Basil Brush Show

Drama Series - 2002, 16 episodes as Dracula

7.3 / 10
KidsComedy

The Basil Brush Show was a British children's television sitcom series, starring the glove puppet fox, Basil Brush. It was produced for six series by The Foundation, airing on CBBC from 4 October 2002 to 21 December 2007. The show is a spin-off from the original 1960's/1970's BBC television series, but without any of the original cast.

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#5Rentaghost

Drama Series - 1976, 16 episodes as Big Chief Leaping Deer

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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#6Sooty

Drama Series - 2011, 16 episodes as The Butler

7.5 / 10
ComedyKids

The fifth incarnation of 'The Sooty Show' sees Richard, Sooty, Sweep and Soo start a new job as handymen at a seaside holiday park.

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#7Fresh Fields

Drama Series - 1984, 16 episodes as Tom

6.8 / 10
Comedy

Fresh Fields is a British situation comedy written by John T. Chapman and produced by Thames Television for ITV between 7 March 1984 and 23 October 1986. A ratings success at the time, the show is well remembered for its opening titles featuring a silhouette of a person in a rocking chair. It stars Julia McKenzie and Anton Rodgers as Hester and William Fields, a devoted middle-class couple with an idyllic suburban lifestyle. William works while Hester keeps home. The crux of the show was that she was always looking to try new hobbies or find ways to improve her life, much of which exasperated her hard-working husband. The family home had a granny flat attached, in which Hester's mother Nancy lived. She was divorced from Hester's father Guy although remarried him as the series progressed. The couple had a daughter called Emma who frequently telephoned but never appeared. Her husband Peter did appear often. They later had a son — the Fields' first grandchild — whom they named Guy, after his great-grandfather. Perhaps, the best remembered supporting character was Sonia Barrett who would frequently pop round to borrow items to replace hers due to breakage, theft or mislaying. Hester was not perturbed by this, as the two were close friends, but it used to irritate William. Sonia had the show's only catchphrase — she would always knock on the back door of the Fields' home and then say It's only Sonia! as she walked in. This would sometimes lead to applause of recognition from the studio audience, a phenomenon more regularly seen within American sitcoms. Sonia's husband John appeared on occasion, as did William's secretary Miss Denham, played by Daphne Oxenford.

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#8The Jigsaw Man

Movie - 1983, 2h 15m as Policeman

5.0 / 10
Thriller

Philip Kimberly, the former head of the British Secret Service who defected to Russia, is given plastic surgery and sent back to Britain by the KGB to retrieve some vital documents. With the documents in hand, he instead plays off MI6 and the KGB against each other.

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#9The Bitch

Movie - 1979, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

4.4 / 10
DramaRomance

The owner of a trendy disco starts having problems with the men in her life and the Mafia, which is trying to move in on her place.

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#10Slinger's Day

Drama Series - 1986, 16 episodes as TV Director

5.8 / 10
Comedy

Slinger's Day is a British sitcom created by Brian Cooke and produced by Thames Television for ITV. A continuation of Tripper's Day, which had come to a natural end due to a combination of star Leonard Rossiter's death and an overwhelmingly negative response, Bruce Forsyth plays a different character to Norman Tripper but fulfilling the same role, that of the manager of a Supafare supermarket with a team of incompetent eccentrics. Several cast members from Tripper's Day reprised their roles in the first series but departed in the second, allowing for new characters. Broadcast for two six-episode runs from 1986–87, Slinger's Day represented Forsyth's sole situation comedy acting role, and he remained more associated with stand-up and game shows.

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#11Julius Caesar

Movie - 1979, 2h 15m as Strato

8.7 / 10
DramaTV MovieHistory

The assassination of the would be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and company has tragic consequences for Brutus and the republic.

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#12Shadow Run

Movie - 1998, 2h 15m as Walter

4.2 / 10
Thriller

Haskell is assigned a job by his boss, the aristocratic Landon-Higgins, to highjack a high security van in broad daylight while it's in the shadow run (out of radio contact with the main security firm). He assembles a team to carry out the heist, but things don't go according to plan and Haskell begins to think his boss might be double crossing him. Add to this, a teenage boarding school pupil has already witnessed some of the meetings of the team and Haskell's in real trouble.

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#13The House that Mary Bought

Movie - 1995, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

6.5 / 10
Mystery

When a brilliant artist and her husband become subject to a series of bizarre occurrences in their isolated house in Brittany they both suspect that the other person is responsible.

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#14Virginia Fly is Drowning

Movie - 1981, 2h 15m as Mysterious Stranger

8.8 / 10

Secure in her suburban home, Virginia Fly dreams of a life of unbridled passion and romance. She feels her fantasies are about to become reality when she is asked to take part in a TV documentary about pre-marital love - a subject about which she is sadly ignorant...

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