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Peter Finch

Peter Finch

Frederick George Peter Ingle Finch (28 September 1916 – 14 January 1977) was an English-Australian actor. He is best remembered for his role as crazed television anchorman Howard Beale in the 1976 film Network, which earned him a posthumous Academy Award for Best Actor, his fifth Best Actor award from the BAFTA, and a Best Actor award from the Golden Globes. He was the first of two people to win a posthumous Academy Award in an acting category; the other was fellow Australian Heath Ledger.

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The Making of 'Network' (2006)

An engrossing feature-length documentary about the making of Sidney Lumet's classic film "Network. ...

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Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood (2001)

Documentary about the making of 20th Century Fox's 1963 film "Cleopatra," then the most expensive film of all time. ...

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The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's (1980)

A look back at the people, events, music, and trends of the 1970s. ...

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Raid on Entebbe (1976)

Based on a true operation by Israeli commandos. An Air France flight is hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The airplane landed in Uganda. The terrorists released some passengers, keeping 94 Jews and 12 air crew hostage. The Isra ...

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Network (1976)

When veteran anchorman Howard Beale is forced to retire his 25-year post because of his age, he announces to viewers that he will kill himself during his farewell broadcast. Network executives rethink their decision when his fanatical tirade results in a s ...

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The Abdication (1974)

Queen Christina of Sweden abdicates and travels to Rome to embrace the Catholic church. ...

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England Made Me (1973)

A young, English, ne'er-do-well who goes to stay with his sister and her wealthy fiancé/benefactor in 1930's Germany, just before the rise of the Nazi party. ...

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Bequest to the Nation (1973)

Set before the Battle of Trafalgar, this is the story of relationship between Admiral Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton during the Napoleonic Wars. ...

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Lost Horizon (1973)

While escaping war-torn China, a group of Europeans crash in the Himalayas, where they are rescued and taken to the mysterious Valley of the Blue Moon, Shangri-La. ...

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Something to Hide (1972)

A man having marital problems with his shrewish wife picks up a young, pretty and pregnant hitchhiker. Before he knows it, he's in over his head and mixed up in violence and murder. ...

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Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)

Recently divorced career woman Alex Greville begins a romantic relationship with glamorous mod artist Bob Elkin, fully aware that he's also intimately involved with middle-aged doctor Daniel Hirsh. For both Alex and Daniel, the younger man represents a bre ...

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The Greatest Mother of 'em All (1969)

Stage mother Dolly Murdock (Ann Sothern) uses the attractiveness of her teenage daughter Tricia (Alexandra Hay) for her own economic gains, leading Tricia to experience a nightmarish loss of innocence. ...

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The Red Tent (1969)

Torn by personal guilt, Italian General Umberto Nobile reminisces about his 1928 failed Arctic expedition aboard the airship Italia. ...

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The Legend of Lylah Clare (1968)

A dictatorial film director hires an unknown actress to play the lead role in a planned movie biography of a late, great Hollywood star. ...

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Far from the Madding Crowd (1967)

Bathsheba Everdine, a willful, flirtatious, young woman, unexpectedly inherits a large farm and becomes romantically involved with three widely divergent men. ...

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Murderers' Row (1966)

The handsome top agent Matt dies a tragic death in his bath tub - the women mourn about the loss. However it's just faked for his latest top-secret mission: He shall find Dr. Solaris, inventor of the Helium laser beam, powerful enough to destroy a whole co ...

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10:30 P.M. Summer (1966)

A female traveling companion seduces a married man and his alcoholic wife. ...

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Judith (1966)

A Jewish woman is recruited to help track down a German commander who was her former husband. ...

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The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)

A cargo aircraft crashes in a sandstorm in the Sahara with less than a dozen men on board. One of the passengers is an airplane designer who comes up with the idea of ripping off the undamaged wing and using it as the basis for a replacement aircraft they ...

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The Pumpkin Eater (1964)

Jo, the mother of seven children, divorces her second husband in order to marry Jake, a successful but promiscuous screenwriter. Though they are physically and emotionally compatible, they are slowly torn apart. ...

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First Men in the Moon (1964)

The world is delighted when a spacecraft containing a crew made up of the world's astronauts lands on the moon, but are shocked when the astronauts discover an old British flag and a document declaring that the moon is taken for Queen Victoria proving that ...

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Girl with Green Eyes (1964)

A naive young country girl moves to Dublin and finds herself drawn to a sophisticated author twice her age. ...

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In the Cool of the Day (1963)

After he mends a marital rift between a vacationing young couple, the bored, fragile wife falls hopelessly in love with the husband's ex-colleague who is married to a long-suffering and emotionally and physically scarred woman. The couple soon runs off to ...

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I Thank a Fool (1962)

After mercifully killing her terminally ill lover, Dr. Christine Allison loses her medical license and spends two years in prison. Once she has completed her sentence, the lawyer who prosecuted Christine, Stephen Dane, hires her to care for his emotionally ...

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The Sins of Rachel Cade (1961)

A female doctor in the Congo is torn between two loves. ...

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No Love for Johnnie (1961)

Johnnie Byrne is a member of the British Parliament. In his 40s, he's feeling frustrated with his life and his personal as well as professional problems tower up over him. His desires to win the next election are endangered by his constant looking for love ...

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The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960)

England, 1890s. The brutal and embittered Marquis of Queensberry, who believes that his youngest son, Bosie, has an inappropriate relationship with the famous Irish writer Oscar Wilde, maintains an ongoing feud with the latter in order to ruin his reputati ...

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Kidnapped (1960)

Kidnapped and cheated out of his inheritance, young David Balfour falls in with a Jacobite adventurer, Alan Breck Stewart. Falsely accused of murder, they must flee across the Highlands, evading the redcoats. ...

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The Nun's Story (1959)

After leaving a wealthy Belgian family to become a nun, Sister Luke struggles with her devotion to her vows during crisis, disappointment, and World War II. ...

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Operation Amsterdam (1959)

When Germany invades Holland in 1940, a British intelligence officer and two Dutch diamond merchants go to Amsterdam to persuade the Dutch diamond merchants to evacuate their diamond supplies to England. ...

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Windom's Way (1957)

A doctor's sophisticated wife joins him at his remote Asian practice to try and patch up their marriage. Increasingly violent friction between local rubber plantation workers and the authorities force both parties to make decisions. ...

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The Shiralee (1957)

An Australian "swagman" finds his wife with another man, so he takes the daughter, Buster, with him. On the road together, going from town to town and from farm to farm, father and daughter explore new depths of understanding and bonding. ...

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Robbery Under Arms (1957)

During the mid 1860s, brothers Dick and Jim Marston are drawn into a life of crime by their ex-convict father Ben and his friend, infamous cattlethief Captain Starlight. Making their way to Melbourne with the proceeds of a recent raid, the brothers meet an ...

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The Battle of the River Plate (1956)

In the early years of the World War II, the Royal Navy is fighting a desperate battle to keep the Atlantic convoy routes open to supply the British Isles, facing the great danger posed by the many German warships, such as the Admiral Graf Spee, which are s ...

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A Town Like Alice (1956)

In 1941 Malaysia, the advancing Japanese army captures a lot of British territory very quickly. The men are sent off to labor camps, but they have no plan on what to do with the women and children of the British. ...

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Josephine and Men (1955)

The trouble with Josephine is that her ever-loving and over-sympathetic nature leads her to switch from needful men to even more needful men... ...

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Simon and Laura (1955)

A couple of bickering, married performers agree to star in a "Mr. and Mrs." TV show. ...

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The Dark Avenger (1955)

Edward, Prince of Wales, son and heir to his father King Edward III of England, leads an English army to the French province of Aquitaine to protect the inhabitant from the ravages of the French. After defeating the French in battle, the defeated French pl ...

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Passage Home (1955)

Set in 1931, the film takes place aboard a merchant ship, briefly harboured in South America. A young woman (Diane Cilento) boards the ship as a passenger, resulting in disharmony among the superstitious crew members. Virtuous seaman Anthony Steel protects ...

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Make Me an Offer! (1954)

A struggling antiques dealer (Peter Finch) thinks he has found the answer to his problems when he stumbles across a precious vase amid a range of other less desirable items. The trouble is, the owners of the vase are pretty shrewd themselves and are not k ...

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Father Brown (1954)

Works of art are disappearing, stolen by a master thief, a master of disguise. Father Brown has two goals: to catch the thief and to save his soul. ...

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Elephant Walk (1954)

Colonial tea planter John Wiley (Peter Finch), visiting England at the end of World War II, wins and weds lovely English rose Ruth (Dame Elizabeth Taylor) and takes her home to Elephant Walk, Ceylon, where the local elephants have a grudge against the plan ...

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The Heart of the Matter (1953)

Based on Graham Greene's novel, a married colonial police chief struggles with his conscience when he has an affair with a younger woman. ...

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The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan (1953)

The career of W. S. Gilbert, a barrister turned comic librettist, and Arthur Sullivan, a composer turned against his will to light music, who together wrote fifteen comic operas between 1871 and 1896, to great public acclaim. ...

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The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men (1952)

Young Robin Hood, in love with Maid Marian, enters an archery contest with his father at the King's palace. On the way home his father is murdered by henchmen of Prince John. Robin takes up the life of an outlaw, gathering together his band of merry men wi ...

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The Miniver Story (1950)

The Second World War is over, and the Miniver family is trying to keep themselves together in post-War Britain, among continuing shortages and growing tensions within the family. ...

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The Wooden Horse (1950)

True story of three British POWs and their attempt to escape from Nazi Germany ...

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Eureka Stockade (1949)

In 1854, Australian gold rush miners struggle for their rights against an oppressive government. ...

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Train of Events (1949)

A train disaster is told in four short stories to give character studies of the people involved, how it will affect them and how they deal with it. ...

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A Son Is Born (1946)

This family melodrama, a tale of desertion, vengeful seduction, coincidental meeting and catharsis, spans more than two decades from 1920 to World War II. A woman imprisoned in a loveless marriage finds the courage to leave her husband but is disturbed to ...

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Indonesia Calling (1946)

Two weeks after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, in August 1945, Indonesian Independence leaders proclaimed "Indonesia Merdeka!" 'Freedom for Indonesia' and an end to Dutch colonial rule over the Netherlands East Indies. Internationally renowned Dutc ...

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Jungle Patrol (1944)

This black and white film was made by the Australian government to show Australia's contribution to the New Guinea campaign, for which they thought there had not been sufficient acknowledgement. Jungle Patrol follows the daily experiences of the soldiers, ...

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The Rats of Tobruk (1944)

Three friends enlist in the Australian Army and serve in North Africa, holding the city of Tobruk against Rommel's forces. ...

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These Stars Are Mine (1943)

George Reynolds, recently discharged from the army, tells his father of his plans to marry and relax. Reynolds Snr tells his son that if Australia is to avoid another postwar Depression, its citizens need to work hard towards a better future. ...

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The Power and the Glory (1941)

The Power and the Glory is a 1941 Australian war film about a Czech scientist who escapes from the Nazis to live in Australia. ...

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Mr. Chedworth Steps Out (1939)

A down-and-out clerk happens upon a bag of money. Unknown to him, the money is all counterfeit, forcing the innocent man to become involved with gangsters, as well as federal agents. ...

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The Magic Shoes (1935)

Short lost Australian film based on the story of Cinderella ...

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