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David Barry is a Actor British born on 30 april 1943 at Bangor (United-kingdom)
David Barry (born 30 April 1943) is a Welsh actor. He is best known for his role as Frankie Abott, (the gum-chewing mother's boy who was convinced he was extremely tough), in the LWT sitcom Please Sir! and the spin-off series The Fenn Street Gang,
He also appeared in two TV spin-off movies - Please Sir! and George and Mildred.
David is now an author with three novels, Each Man Kills, Flashback and Willie The Actor. He currently lives in Tunbridge Wells, Kent.
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Birth name David Barry
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 30 april 1943 (81 years) at Bangor (United-kingdom)
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 30 april 1943 (81 years) at Bangor (United-kingdom)
He also appeared in two TV spin-off movies - Please Sir! and George and Mildred.
David is now an author with three novels, Each Man Kills, Flashback and Willie The Actor. He currently lives in Tunbridge Wells, Kent.
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The Woman In White (1998)
, 2h5Directed by Tim Fywell
Origin USA
Genres Thriller
Actors Tara Fitzgerald, Justine Waddell, Andrew Lincoln, James Wilby, Simon Callow, John Standing
Roles Drunken Man
Rating69%
Marian Fairlie (Tara FitzGerald) and Laura Fairlie (Justine Waddell) are half-sisters (same father but different mothers). Laura's mother died, leaving Laura an inheritance which she will receive when she comes of age. They both live in Limmeridge with their uncle, Mr. Fairlie (Ian Richardson), who hires a new tutor, Walter Hartright (Andrew Lincoln). Marian tells Hartright that she and Laura are very close, agree in everything and refuse to be taught separately.
George & Mildred (1980)
, 1h29Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Yootha Joyce, Brian Murphy, Stratford Johns, Norman Eshley, Sheila Fearn, Kenneth Cope
Roles Elvis
Rating58%
Mildred decides that she and George will celebrate their wedding anniversary in style at a swanky London hotel - however unhappy George might be at the cost involved. "I'm a traffic warden, not Aristotle Onassis", he tells her. But on arrival, George is taken for a ruthless hit-man by a shady businessman (Stratford Johns), who wants a rival eliminated. Mildred meanwhile remains in blissful ignorance throughout the resulting chaos.
Please Sir! (1971)
, 1h40Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about education
Actors John Alderton, Deryck Guyler, Noel Howlett, Joan Sanderson, Richard Davies, Erik Chitty
Roles Frankie Abbot
Rating60%
Mr. Hedges, the somewhat naive and idealistic teacher of the rebellious Class 5C, lobbies to have them allowed on the school camping trip despite much precedent to the contrary. Once on the camping trip Mr. Hedges pursues Penny Wheeler, the local barmaid, and the class indulge in their usual activities.
Lilith (1964)
, 1h54Directed by Robert Rossen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Warren Beatty, Jean Seberg, Peter Fonda, Kim Hunter, Jessica Walter, Anne Meacham
Rating67%
Set in a private mental institution, Chestnut Lodge in Rockville, Maryland, the film tells of a trainee occupational therapist, a troubled ex-soldier named Vincent Bruce (Beatty), who becomes dangerously obsessed with seductive, artistic, schizophrenic patient Lilith Arthur (Seberg). Bruce makes progress helping Lilith emerge from seclusion and leave the institutional grounds for a day in the country, and accompanies her on other excursions in which she is alone with him. She attempts to seduce him, and eventually Bruce tells Lilith he is in love with her. Lilith also seduces an older female patient, and enchants a couple of young boys on one her outings. Bruce triggers the suicide of another patient (Fonda) out of jealousy over the patient's crush on Lilith. This brings up memories in Lilith of her brother's suicide, which she implies was due to an incestuous relationship which she initiated, and she goes on a destructive rampage in her room and winds up in a catatonic state. Bruce presents himself to his superiors for psychiatric help.
Abandon Ship (1957)
, 1h37Directed by Richard Sale
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Disaster films, Films about seafaring accidents or incidents
Actors Tyrone Power, Mai Zetterling, Lloyd Nolan, Stephen Boyd, Moira Lister, Marie Lohr
Roles Peter Kilgore
Rating74%
The luxury liner SS Crescent Star sinks in seven minutes after striking a rogue mine in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, taking with her nearly all of the 1156 people on board. Twenty-seven of the survivors converge on a single lifeboat designed to accommodate only nine. The dying captain passes command to executive officer Alec Holmes (Tyrone Power). Holmes then learns from "Sparks" Clary (John Stratton), the ship's radio operator, that both transmitters were destroyed before a call for help could be sent. Holmes decides to try to reach the nearest land, Africa, 1500 miles away.