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David Burke (British actor)

Index David Burke (British actor)

David Burke (born 25 May 1934) is an English actor, known for playing Watson in the initial series of Granada Television's 1980s The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, which starred Jeremy Brett in the title role. [1]

69 relations: A Ghost Story for Christmas, A Scandal in Bohemia, A Scandal in Bohemia (Sherlock Holmes episode), A View from a Hill (film), Adaptations of Sherlock Holmes, Afterlife (play), Anna Calder-Marshall, Arkangel Shakespeare, Armchair Thriller, Bartholomew Fair (play), BBC Television Shakespeare, Bertie and Elizabeth, Casualty (series 16), Catherine Cookson, Comedians (play), Copenhagen (play), David Burke, Death of a Batman, Dr. Watson, Edward Hardwicke, Henry VI, Part 1, Henry VI, Part 2, Inheritance (TV series), James Saunders (playwright), Jeremy Brett, List of actors who have played Dr. Watson, List of Agatha Christie's Poirot episodes, List of British actors and actresses, List of Coronation Street characters (1963), List of people from Merseyside, List of RADA alumni, List of Sherlock Holmes episodes, List of The Avengers and The New Avengers cast members, List of William Shakespeare screen adaptations, Love & Distrust, Marilyn Imrie, Mesmer (film), Michael Frayn, Mystery film, Natasha Richardson, Number 13 (2006 film), Quiet as a Nun, Random Quest, Rattle of a Simple Man, Reilly, Ace of Spies, Rosalie Williams, Saturday Night Out, Shakespeare: The Animated Tales, Shakespearean history, Sherlock Holmes, ..., Sherlock Holmes (1984 TV series), Sherlock Holmes (video game series), Spaghetti House, Testament: The Bible in Animation, The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet, The Adventure of the Empty House, The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter, The Afternoon Play, The Baron, The Final Problem, The Guardians (UK TV series), The Love School, The Red-Headed League (Sherlock Holmes), The Rivals (disambiguation), The Woman in Black (2012 film), The Young Messiah, Tom Burke (actor), Venus and Adonis (Shakespeare poem), 2012 in film. Expand index (19 more) »

A Ghost Story for Christmas

A Ghost Story for Christmas is a strand of annual British short television films originally broadcast on BBC One between 1971 and 1978, and revived in 2005 on BBC Four.

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A Scandal in Bohemia

"A Scandal in Bohemia" is the first short story, and the third overall work, featuring Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional detective Sherlock Holmes.

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A Scandal in Bohemia (Sherlock Holmes episode)

"A Scandal In Bohemia" is an episode of the Granada TV Sherlock Holmes adaptations which were produced between 1984 and 1994 and star Jeremy Brett as the famous detective.

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A View from a Hill (film)

A View from a Hill is a 2005 British television film based on the M. R. James short story of the same name.

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Adaptations of Sherlock Holmes

The stories of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle were very popular as adaptations for the stage, and later film, and still later television.

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Afterlife (play)

Afterlife is a 2008 play by Michael Frayn.

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Anna Calder-Marshall

Anna Calder-Marshall (born 11 January 1947) is an English actress.

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Arkangel Shakespeare

The Complete Arkangel Shakespeare is a notable series of audio drama presentations of all 38 plays of William Shakespeare, released from 1998 onwards on cassette and then on CD.

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Armchair Thriller

Armchair Thriller is a British television programme, broadcast on ITV in two series in 1978 and 1980.

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Bartholomew Fair (play)

Bartholomew Fair is a Jacobean comedy in five acts by Ben Jonson.

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BBC Television Shakespeare

The BBC Television Shakespeare is a series of British television adaptations of the plays of William Shakespeare, created by Cedric Messina and broadcast by BBC Television.

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Bertie and Elizabeth

Bertie & Elizabeth is a 2002 television film produced by Carlton Television.

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Casualty (series 16)

The sixteenth series of the British medical drama television series Casualty commenced airing in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 15 September 2001 and finished on 29 June 2002.

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Catherine Cookson

Dame Catherine Ann Cookson, DBE (née McMullen; 27 June 1906 – 11 June 1998) was an English author.

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Comedians (play)

Comedians is a play by Trevor Griffiths, set in a Manchester evening class for aspiring working-class comedians.

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Copenhagen (play)

Copenhagen is a play by Michael Frayn, based on an event that occurred in Copenhagen in 1941, a meeting between the physicists Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg.

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David Burke

David Burke may refer to.

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Death of a Batman

Death of a Batman is the fifth episode of the third series of the 1960s cult British spy-fi television series The Avengers, starring Patrick Macnee and Honor Blackman.

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Dr. Watson

John H. Watson, known as Dr.

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Edward Hardwicke

Edward Cedric Hardwicke (7 August 1932 – 16 May 2011) was an English actor, who had a distinguished career on the stage, as well as being known for his portrayal of Dr. Watson in the Granada TV series Sherlock Holmes.

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Henry VI, Part 1

Henry VI, Part 1, often referred to as 1 Henry VI, is a history play by William Shakespeare, possibly in collaboration with Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Nashe, believed to have been written in 1591 and set during the lifetime of King Henry VI of England.

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Henry VI, Part 2

Henry VI, Part 2 (often written as 2 Henry VI) is a history play by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1591 and set during the lifetime of King Henry VI of England.

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Inheritance (TV series)

Inheritance was a 1967 Granada produced ITV drama based on a 1932 novel by Phyllis Bentley.

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James Saunders (playwright)

James Saunders (8 January 1925 – 29 January 2004) was a prolific English playwright born in Islington, London.

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Jeremy Brett

Peter Jeremy William Huggins (3 November 1933 – 12 September 1995), known professionally as Jeremy Brett, was an English actor.

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List of actors who have played Dr. Watson

List of actors who have played Dr. Watson in various media.

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List of Agatha Christie's Poirot episodes

The following is a list of episodes for the British crime drama Agatha Christie's Poirot which first aired on ITV from 8 January 1989 to 13 November 2013.

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List of British actors and actresses

This list of notable actors and actresses from the United Kingdom includes performers in film, radio, stage and television.

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List of Coronation Street characters (1963)

Coronation Street is a British soap opera, initially produced by Granada Television.

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List of people from Merseyside

This is a list of notable people from what is now the county of Merseyside, including those from the city of Liverpool.

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List of RADA alumni

This is a list of alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, England.

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List of Sherlock Holmes episodes

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List of The Avengers and The New Avengers cast members

This is a list of actors who appeared in the British spy-fi television series The Avengers between 1961 and 1969 and its sequel The New Avengers between 1976 and 1977.

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List of William Shakespeare screen adaptations

The Guinness Book of Records lists 410 feature-length film and TV versions of William Shakespeare's plays, making Shakespeare the most filmed author ever in any language.

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Love & Distrust

Love & Distrust is a 2010 direct-to-video romance film starring Robert Pattinson, Amy Adams, Sam Worthington, Robert Downey, Jr. and James Franco.

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Marilyn Imrie

Marilyn Elsie Imrie (born 20 November 1947) is a Scottish radio drama director and producer.

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Mesmer (film)

Mesmer is a 1994 Austrian-Canadian-British-German biographical film directed by Roger Spottiswoode from a script by Dennis Potter.

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Michael Frayn

Michael Frayn, FRSL (born 8 September 1933) is an English playwright and novelist.

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Mystery film

A mystery film is a genre of film that revolves around the solution of a problem or a crime.

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Natasha Richardson

Natasha Jane Richardson (11 May 1963 – 18 March 2009) was an English actress of stage and screen.

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Number 13 (2006 film)

Number 13 is the second of four recent adaptations of ghost stories by M.R. James broadcast by the BBC in a loose revival of the A Ghost Story for Christmas tradition of the 1970s.

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Quiet as a Nun

Quiet as a Nun is a thriller novel, written by Antonia Fraser.

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Random Quest

"Random Quest" is a science fiction short story, which is also a love story, by John Wyndham.

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Rattle of a Simple Man

Rattle of a Simple Man is a 1964 British comedy-drama film directed by Muriel Box and starring Diane Cilento, Harry H. Corbett and Michael Medwin, based on the 1963 play by Charles Dyer.

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Reilly, Ace of Spies

Reilly, Ace of Spies is a 1983 television miniseries dramatizing the life of Sidney Reilly, a Russian Jew who became one of the greatest spies ever to work for the British.

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Rosalie Williams

Rosalie Williams (12 June 1919 in Barton upon Irwell, Lancashire – 11 December 2009 in Manchester) was an actress best known for her appearance as Mrs.

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Saturday Night Out

Saturday Night Out is a 1964 British comedy drama film directed by Robert Hartford-Davis and starring Heather Sears, John Bonney, Bernard Lee, Erika Remberg, Francesca Annis, Margaret Nolan and David Lodge.

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Shakespeare: The Animated Tales

Shakespeare: The Animated Tales (also known as The Animated Shakespeare) is a series of twelve half-hour animated television adaptations of the plays of William Shakespeare, originally broadcast on BBC 2 and S4C between 1992 and 1994.

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Shakespearean history

In the First Folio, the plays of William Shakespeare were grouped into three categories: comedies, histories, and tragedies.

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Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional private detective created by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

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Sherlock Holmes (1984 TV series)

Sherlock Holmes is the name given to the ITV TV series of Sherlock Holmes adaptations produced by British television company Granada Television between 1984 and 1994, with the first two series bearing the title The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes on screen and being followed by subsequent sub-series bearing the titles of other short story collections by Arthur Conan Doyle.

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Sherlock Holmes (video game series)

Sherlock Holmes is a series of adventure games developed by Frogwares.

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Spaghetti House

Spaghetti House is a 1982 Italian comedy film directed by Giulio Paradisi.

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Testament: The Bible in Animation

Testament: The Bible in Animation is a 1996 animated series that was produced by and shown on Sianel 4 Cymru (S4C).

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The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet

"The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet", one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is the eleventh of the twelve stories collected in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

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The Adventure of the Empty House

"The Adventure of the Empty House", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as The Return of Sherlock Holmes.

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The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter

"The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 12 stories in the cycle collected as The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.

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The Afternoon Play

The Afternoon Play is a British television anthology series, which consists of standalone contemporary dramas first shown during the daytime on BBC One.

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The Baron

The Baron is a British television series, made in 1965/66 based on the book series by John Creasey, written under the pseudonym Anthony Morton, and produced by ITC Entertainment.

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The Final Problem

"The Final Problem" is a short story by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle featuring his detective character Sherlock Holmes.

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The Guardians (UK TV series)

The Guardians is a television drama series of 13 60-minute episodes made by London Weekend Television and broadcast in the UK on the ITV network (with the exception of Ulster Television) between 10 July 1971 and 2 October 1971.

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The Love School

The Love School (broadcast in the U.S. as The Brotherhood) is a BBC television drama series originally broadcast in 1975 about the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, written by John Hale, Ray Lawler, Robin Chapman and John Prebble.

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The Red-Headed League (Sherlock Holmes)

"The Red-Headed League" is an episode of the ''Sherlock Holmes'' television adaptations of the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle stories, produced by Britain's Granada Television between 1984 and 1994 and starring Jeremy Brett as the famous detective.

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The Rivals (disambiguation)

The Rivals is a 1775 play by Richard Brinsley Sheridan.

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The Woman in Black (2012 film)

The Woman in Black is a 2012 supernatural horror film directed by James Watkins and written by Jane Goldman.

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The Young Messiah

The Young Messiah is a 2016 American biblical drama film directed by Cyrus Nowrasteh and co-written by Betsy Giffen Nowrasteh and Nowrasteh, based on the novel Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt by Anne Rice.

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Tom Burke (actor)

Tom Liam Benedict Burke (born 30 June 1981) is an English actor.

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Venus and Adonis (Shakespeare poem)

Venus and Adonis is a narrative poem by William Shakespeare published in 1593.

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2012 in film

The following tables list films released in 2012.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Burke_(British_actor)

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