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Ed Devereaux (27 August 1925 – 17 December 2003) was an Australian actor, who lived in the UK for many years. He was best known for playing the part of "Matt Hammond" in the Australian children's television series Skippy. He was also involved in the series behind the scenes; Devereaux both wrote the script and directed The Veteran (1969), for which he received much critical acclaim. Devereaux based the story of Double Trouble on an idea conceived by his children, wrote the screenplay of Summer Storm and wrote the script of The Mine.
Devereaux appeared as Mr. Gubbins in the 1963 British comedy movie Ladies Who Do and in several Carry On films including Carry On Sergeant, Carry On Nurse, Carry On Regardless, Carry On Cruising and Carry On Jack.
He also appeared as Thomas Macaulay in series 5 of The Onedin Line and as Mac in the British comedy series Absolutely Fabulous and in The Professionals (episode "Runner") and The Sweeney ("Jackpot"). In 1964 he appeared in The Saint episode "The Loving Brothers".
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23 October 1992
Muriel McKay was kidnapped from her home in Wimbledon on 29th December 1969 and her body was never found.
12 December 1985
Eager to escape her high-society life among the English Elite, a woman falls in love with a young musician.
24 April 1975
Thirty-seven men from the disputed territory of South West Africa are on trial for their lives in Pretoria, 1,000 miles from their home.
11 July 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.
22 May 1988
A new Premier is elected promising to clean up corruption. He sets up a taskforce headed by a traffic cop thinking he won’t get far.
06 July 1990
When a motorbike gang kills an occultist, the evil spirit he was summoning inhabits a damaged bike. The bike is then bought and restored, but reveals its true nature when it tries to exact vengance on the gang, and anyone else who gets in its way.
28 March 1985
Fourth adaptation and first made for television of the classic Australian bushranger novel "Robbery Under Arms" by Rolf Boldrewood.
12 May 1985
World War II vets travel to England for a reunion at their old base. Stars Judi Trott, Barry Morse, m
01 November 1963
The "Ladies Who Do" are office cleaners. One of them discovers some hot stock tips and they make a fortune.
06 November 1996
Eddy and Patsy prepare to go on a skiing holiday to hopefully indulge in the jet-setting lifestyle of the international celebrity elite when Saffy is proposed to by her stuffy, upper-class boyfriend, Paolo.
16 July 1986
Neglected by her family, kept apart from her grandchildren, desperately short of money, Bea begins to gamble - at first for small stakes, but ultimately for the highest stake of all: revenge for the past.
06 January 1959
A captain is promoted by his company from tramp steamers to their flagship passenger liner. Although he is a thoroughly competent sailor ready to take charge of such a ship, he is less prepared for the social duties his new position involves, not least the way he in which becomes the target for all the unattached women on board.
30 January 1959
In Haven Hospital, a certain men's ward is causing more havoc than the whole hospital altogether. The formidable Matron's debut gives everyone a chill every time she walks past, with only Reckitt standing up to her.
06 November 1978
While still the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII meets the married American socialite, Wallis Simpson.
10 December 1969
Skippy and the Intruders (also known as The Intruders) is a 1969 Australian film directed by Lee Robinson, and is a spin-off of the popular Skippy the Bush Kangaroo TV series.
20 March 1960
An Eskimo who has had little contact with white men goes to a trading post where he accidentally kills a missionary and finds himself being pursued by the police.
23 February 1964
Able seaman Poop-Decker signs up for adventure on the high seas with the wicked Captain Fearless. Those swabbing the decks include Juliet Mills, Charles Hawtrey and Donald Houston.
31 March 1971
Nickel Queen was an Australian comedy film released in 1971 starring Googie Withers and directed by her husband John McCallum.
16 September 1989
Simon Templar thwarts a Hong Kong syndicate's takeover of a businessman's Australian fun park.
24 October 1978
A group of crooks plan a heist to steal twenty million dollars from a Security Firm counting house.
01 June 1962
Sergeant-Major Charles Coward, a brave British soldier is captured by German forces during World War II.
12 December 1974
Barry McKenzie's Aunt Edna is kidnapped by Count Von Plasma, the vampire head of an isolated Eastern European dictatorship who mistakes her for the Queen of England and thinks that kidnapping her will draw tourists to his country.
31 August 1958
Sergeant Grimshawe wants to retire in the flush of success by winning the Star Squad prize with his very last platoon of newly called-up National Servicemen.
26 August 1989
British writer Ian Fleming's life and loves suggest that of his spy-novel hero, secret agent James Bond.
18 August 1966
An Italian sports journalist arrives in Australia but finds no work. The only employment he can find is as a builder's labourer.
04 April 1961
After a bunch of no-hopers approaches an employment agency, the anarchy mounts as they do a series of odd jobs, including a chimp's tea party, trying to stay sober at a wine tasting… and demolishing a house.
12 March 1962
Captain Crowther's lot is not a happy one! Five of his crew have to be replaced and at such short notice before the voyage begins there isn't much to choose from.
16 December 1996
Parody of 1960's spy capers.
31 October 1960
William is an unsuccessful guinea pig for a medical group interested in researching the common cold. He is soon fired and offered a job by the nearby National Atomic Research Center where they figure anyone who could fail at being a guinea pig is just what they need.
08 September 1972
The legendary Sid James stars as the head of a chaotic household in this movie spin-off from the hit ITV sitcom.
17 March 1963
The crooks in London know how it works. No one carries guns and no one resists the police. Then a new gang appears that go one better.
19 November 1976
A British-born younger son of an immigrant family from Trinidad finds himself adrift between two cultures.
04 March 1981
The Life and Times of David Lloyd George charts the life of the controversial Liberal politician with Philip Madoc in the titular role.
14 October 1960
When the details of a secret torpedo are destroyed by an incompetent seaman, the crew of the ship rally round, when the Admiral needs the plans to show to a visiting scientist.
27 April 1964
An executive, passed over for a promotion, sends an angry letter to his bosses while in Ireland. Learning he's up for a better job, he rushes to retrieve the letter.
01 August 1959
An escaped prisoner is trying to clear his name.
15 May 1976
In rural New Zealand an alcoholic ex-soldier is desperate to obtain more liquor. His family try to keep liquor away from him.
07 January 1973
The final days in the Bunker, with Hitler becoming more and more paranoid, plumbing the depths of his madness and reaching his well deserved fate.
31 August 1960
When a law-abiding demolition expert is duped by a gang of criminals into helping them he is caught and jailed.
01 March 1991
Buddy is an aspiring teenager who is a very good musician and has pressure to go further than his Dad's teddy boy rocker days.
01 January 1975
Life in the fast lane becomes deadly for Wilde and Sinclair when the mob tries to "fix" the sport of high-speed racing.
24 April 1961
Sir Ernest Pease is a self-important scientist sent undercover on a bombing mission to monitor the effectiveness of his latest invention, a new-fangled radar.
10 November 1977
Celebrating twenty years of classic Carry On films, two of the films’ best-loved stars, Kenneth Williams and Barbara Windsor return to Pinewood film studios to unwrap some rib-tickling moments from the series.
31 December 1977
An emotionally remote recovering alcoholic and his dowdy, unambitious wife face a personal crisis when they take in an attractive lodger.
25 March 1960
An incompetent boarding school headmaster, Professor Jim Edwards, devises a bizarre plot to raise the profile of his boarding school, and thus save his job, by passing off his bookie's son as a Middle Eastern prince.
29 November 1963
A young postman, who fronts a pop group, dreams of being bigger than The Beatles. They record a demo tape, but things seem to be going pear shaped when he loses the tape.
05 June 1977
Three unrelated horror shorts from 1975 UK horror anthology series "Classics Dark and Dangerous" edited together into one horror film anthology with three segments.
15 October 1967
Set in 1901, the film follows the progress of Constable Peterson (Matthaei) on his quest to bring an Aboriginal man (Kamahl) to justice under the White Man's law.
08 December 1985
Roddy and Lola strike up a romance on the cruise liner SS Mara as it heads to Hong Kong from San Francisco.
