Brian Bovell
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Known For:Acting
Birthday:1959-10-26
Place of Birth:London, England
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Also Known As:برایان بوول

Sealed with a Kiss (2015)
Cheating Edwardian escape artist Max can escape anything, except his wife's revenge.

The Football Monologues (2021)
The Football Monologues tells the stories of seven different people living in and around the beautiful game. Each of our subjects talks intimately,...

Ecstasy (2021)
A short comedy film about a disabled father and his son's crazy attempt to buy drugs so that the dad can dance with his wife on her birthday... one...

Running Late (1992)
Television interviewer George Grant, renowned for his ability to get at the truth, is at the peak of his career. But when he receives a message at...

Wall of Silence (1993)
A corpse is fished out of a north London canal with stab wounds through the eyes. The victim was a prominent member of the Hasidic Jewish community,...

The Service (2015)
On a regular morning, MI6 operative, Jenny calls at her colleague’s house on their usual car pool run to the office. What she discovers sparks...

Deadmeat (2007)
Ex-con Clarkie is betrayed by his best friend, he has no one to turn to as he tracks down his brother's killers. The war spills onto London's mean...

How to be Human (2017)
If you were forced to flee your own war-ridden country, would you sacrifice what makes you human to survive?

Hotel (2001)
A sex worker, a hired killer, and a movie crew cross paths in a Venice hotel where human meat is on the menu.

Shoot the Messenger (2006)
Shoot the Messenger follows one man's painful journey towards self-discovery. On the way he finds both his own attitudes and the expectations of his...

The Murder of Stephen Lawrence (1999)
Stephen Lawrence was a black London teenager murdered by white racists in 1993. His parents fought to have the crime properly investigated,...

Pan (2015)
Living a bleak existence at a London orphanage, 12-year-old Peter finds himself whisked away to the fantastical world of Neverland. Adventure awaits...

Shoreditch (2003)
London 1939. In the weeks before the beginning of the Second World War, the Say When jazz club keeps London's Shoreditch swinging. Run by Thomas...

Welcome II the Terrordome (1995)
Spike and his sister Anjela live in the Terrordome, a huge ghetto that all the blacks have been forced to live in. Jodie, Spike's pregnant white...

The Body Beautiful (1991)
This bold, stunning exploration of a white mother who undergoes a radical mastectomy and her Black daughter who embarks on a modeling career reveals...

Hitler's Forgotten Victims (1997)
The story of black and mixed race people in Nazi Germany who were sterilised, experimented upon, tortured and exterminated in the Nazi concentration...

Never Land (2017)
After mishearing a pair of fishermen talking about the superior flood barriers in The Netherlands, Noah devises an escape plan to Never Land. The...

Digitopia (2001)
Drama about a man who lives in an analogue world but seeks to fulfil his desires in a digital world.

Burning an Illusion (1981)
A young black woman in England becomes increasingly frustrated with her life with her lazy, demanding boyfriend, and with the help of friends seeks...

The Man in My Basement (1970)
In the African American neighborhood of Sag Harbor, Charles Blakey is out of work, out of luck and on the verge of foreclosure on his ancestral home....

Driving Ambition (1984)
A bored and frustrated suburban housewife follows her dream of becoming a racing driver

Babylon (1980)
Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound...

Love Actually (2003)
Eight London couples try to deal with their relationships in different ways. Their tryst with love makes them discover how complicated relationships...

Time Travel is Dangerous! (2025)
Best friends Ruth and Megan run a vintage shop in North London. One day, their lives are forever turned upside down when an abandoned time machine...

Get Santa (2014)
A father and son must team up to save Christmas when they discover Santa Claus sleeping in their garage, having crashed his sleigh and found himself...

Thin Air (1988)
Set in a commercial radio station in an enterprise zone called ‘Riverside’, Thin Air involved property development on a massive scale,...

Tiny Little Voices (1970)
Anna hasn't left her apartment since the pandemic. She's delighted in there, especially because she goes on great adventures with her imaginary...

The Book of Clarence (2024)
Streetwise but down-on-his-luck, Clarence is struggling to find a better life for his family, while fighting to free himself of debt. Captivated by...

Secrets & Lies (1996)
After her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a successful black optometrist, seeks out her birth mother. She's shocked when her research leads her to...

Cla'am (2017)
A dark, surreal comedy about a local man who becomes convinced that a vast conspiracy is behind the impossibly rapid gentrification in his London...

British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves (2016)
Documentary celebrating the British sitcom and taking a look at the social and political context from which our favourite sitcoms grew. We enjoy a...

Sorted (2000)
A young lawyer gets more than he bargains for while investigating his brother's mysterious death.

Playing Away (1987)
To mark the conclusion of their "Third World Week" celebration, a cricket team in a small English village invites a black cricket team from South...

When Love Dies (1990)
A young man looks back over his unhappy marriage and struggles to come to terms with his wife's suicide.

The Final Passage (1996)
In 1958, a Caribbean couple make the journey to a new life by moving to England.

Mama Africa (2002)
In 1997, six African women pledged that in the first year of the new millennium they would tell their stories, stories by African women. They called...

Dark Corners (2021)
Jack Strachan, a shady ex-sports star in hiding out in Norway, is stalked by a mysterious woman he cannot identify who closely resembles his murdered...

All or Nothing (2002)
Penny works at a supermarket and Phil is a gentle taxi-driver. Penny’s love for Phil has run dry and they lead joyless lives with their two...

Solitary (2020)
A man wakes up inside a room to discover he's a prisoner sent into space to form Earth's first colony, and worse - his cell mate Alana is hell bent...

Roald Dahl's The Witches (2020)
In late 1967, a young orphaned boy goes to live with his loving grandma in the rural Alabama town of Demopolis. As the boy and his grandmother...

Listen (2020)
In the outskirts of London, Portuguese couple and parents of three, Bela and Jota, struggle to make ends meet. When a misunderstanding arises at...

Tom & Jerry (2021)
Tom the cat and Jerry the mouse get kicked out of their home and relocate to a fancy New York hotel, where a scrappy employee named Kayla will lose...

Down a Dark Hall (2018)
Kit, a troubled girl, is sent to the exclusive Blackwood boarding school, where she discovers that only four other female students have been admitted...

Lord of Misrule (1996)
Comedy drama. Retired Lord Chancellor Bill Webster decides to sell his memoirs to a tabloid newspaper in order to save his crumbling Cornish house....

The Licensed Fool (2023)
A travelling court jester, known as The Licensed Fool, begins to unravel when he learns of a sinister motive behind him being hired for an upcoming...

The Bill (1984)
The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats to armed robbery and...

Gimme Gimme Gimme (1999)
Linda La Hughes shares a flat with Tom Farrell. Linda is overweight, loudmouthed and not particularly attractive. She thinks she's gorgeous and...

The Terry and Gaby Show (2003)
The Terry and Gaby Show was a daytime television show broadcast on Five on weekday mornings between June 2003 and April 2004, produced by Chris...

A Touch of Frost (1992)
Jack Frost is a gritty, dogged and unconventional detective with sympathy for the underdog and an instinct for moral justice who attracts trouble...

Silent Witness (1996)
Silent Witness is a British crime thriller series focusing on a team of forensic pathology experts and their investigations into various crimes.

Inspector Morse (1987)
Inspector Morse is a detective drama based on Colin Dexter's series of Chief Inspector Morse novels. The series starred John Thaw as Chief Inspector...

Between the Lines (1992)
Detective Superintendent Tony Clark is an ambitious member of the Complaints Investigation Bureau, an internal organisation that investigates claims...

My Dad's the Prime Minister (2003)
My Dad's the Prime Minister is a British sitcom written by Ian Hislop and Nick Newman. It centres around the life of the Prime Minister, his family...

Midsomer Murders (1997)
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his...

Judge John Deed (2001)
Judge John Deed is a British legal drama television series produced by the BBC in association with One-Eyed Dog for BBC One. It was created by G.F....

Shadow and Bone (2021)
In a world cleaved in two by a massive barrier of perpetual darkness, a young soldier uncovers a power that might finally unite her country. But as...

Prospects (1986)
Prospects is a British television comedy drama series that was written by Alan Janes and originally shown on Channel 4 in 1986. Created by Euston...

In Deep (2001)
Lying, cheating, thieving—they’re the best undercover cops in the business. Liam Ketman (Nick Berry, Heartbeat) and Garth O'Hanlon...

Malpractice (2023)
Dr Lucinda Edwards is a smart, battle-hardened doctor, but we meet her on a nightmare shift that ends in the death of an opioid overdose victim,...

Maisie Raine (1998)
Maisie Raine was a drama series originally broadcast on BBC1 for 2 series from 28 July 1998 – 9 July 1999. Pauline Quirke took the lead role...

Foundation (2021)
Follow a band of exiles on their monumental journey to save humanity and rebuild civilization amid the fall of the Galactic Empire.

Unforgotten (2015)
London police detectives Cassie Stuart and Sunny Khan investigate historic cold cases involving missing persons, murder and long-hidden secrets.

Crime (2021)
Detective Inspector Ray Lennox investigates the disappearance of a schoolgirl while battling cocaine addiction and a mental breakdown.

South Of The Border (1988)
Drama concerning a pair of female private detectives, Pearl Parker (Buki Armstrong) and Finn Gallagher (Rosie Rowell) operating within the bustling...

My Dad's the Prime Minister (2003)
My Dad's the Prime Minister is a British sitcom written by Ian Hislop and Nick Newman. It centres around the life of the Prime Minister, his family...

Ghosts (2019)
A cash-strapped young couple inherits a grand country house, only to find it is both falling apart and teeming with the ghosts of former inhabitants.

Casualty (1986)
Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and...

Star Wars: Andor (2022)
In an era filled with danger, deception and intrigue, Cassian Andor will discover the difference he can make in the struggle against the tyrannical...

Casualty (1986)
Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and...

Death in Paradise (2011)
A brilliant but idiosyncratic British detective and his resourceful local team solve baffling murder mysteries on the fictional Caribbean island of...

The Other One (2020)
After Colin Walcott drops dead at his birthday party his wife Tess and daughter Cat discover he had a long-term mistress Marilyn by whom he has a...

Silo (2023)
In a ruined and toxic future, thousands live in a giant silo deep underground. After its sheriff breaks a cardinal rule and residents die...

Drop the Dead Donkey (1990)
Drop the Dead Donkey is a situation comedy that first aired on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom between 1990 and 1998. It is set in the offices of...

Miss Scarlet and the Duke (2020)
When Eliza Scarlet's father dies, he leaves her penniless, but she resolves to continue his detective agency. To operate in a male-dominated world,...