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A thatcher is a person who thatches buildings, i.e. roofs them with reeds or straw.
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Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, PC, FRS, née Roberts (born 13 October 1925) is a British politician and the longest-serving (1979–1990) British prime minister of the 20th century, and the only woman ever to have held the post. A Soviet journalist nicknamed her the "Iron Lady", which later became associated with her uncompromising politics and leadership style. As prime minister, she implemented conservative policies that have come to be known as Thatcherism.
Originally a research chemist before becoming a barrister, Thatcher was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Finchley in 1959. Edward Heath appointed her Secretary of State for Education and Science in his 1970 government. In 1975 Thatcher defeated Heath in the Conservative Party leadership election and became Leader of the Opposition, as well as the first woman to lead a major political party in the United Kingdom. She became prime minister after winning the 1979 general election.
After entering 10 Downing Street, Thatcher introduced a series of political and economic initiatives to reverse what she perceived as Britain's precipitous national decline. Her political philosophy and economic policies emphasised deregulation (particularly of the financial sector), flexible labour markets, the privatisation of state-owned companies, and reducing the power and influence of trade unions. Thatcher's popularity during her first years in office waned amid recession and high unemployment, until economic recovery and the 1982 Falklands War brought a resurgence of support, resulting in her re-election in 1983. Thatcher was re-elected for a third term in 1987, but her Community Charge (popularly referred to as "poll tax") was widely unpopular and her views on the European Community were not shared by others in her Cabinet. She resigned as Prime Minister and party leader in November 1990, after Michael Heseltine launched a challenge to her leadership.
Brian Blessed ( /ˈblɛsɪd/; born 9 October 1936) is an English actor, known for his sonorous voice and "hearty, king-sized portrayals".
The son of William Blessed, a socialist miner, and Hilda Wall, Blessed was born at the Montague Hospital in the town of Mexborough, England. He attended Bolton on Dearne Secondary Modern School, but after his father suffered an industrial accident, he was forced to leave school early at 14 and spent several years working at a variety of jobs, ranging from undertaker to plasterer's assistant. At the age of eighteen, he suffered a nervous breakdown, from which he gradually recovered with the help of friends and family. He completed his National Service as a parachutist in the Royal Air Force. He began his acting training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, alongside Patrick Stewart. He has written about his early life in his autobiography, Dynamite Kid (1992).
An early role was that of PC 'Fancy' Smith in the BBC police drama Z-Cars from 1962 to 1965. In 1966, Blessed appeared in "Incident at Vichy" at the Phoenix Theatre in London. Blessed had small roles in such cult shows as The Avengers (1967, 1969) and the original Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) (1969). He portrayed Caesar Augustus in the BBC series I, Claudius. He portrayed the father of Robin Hood, Lord Locksley, in the 1991 film Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. He has appeared in a number of Shakespearean roles on both stage and screen, including four of the five Shakespeare films directed by Kenneth Branagh: as The Duke of Exeter in Henry V (1989), Antonio in Much Ado About Nothing (1993), The Ghost of Hamlet's Father in Hamlet (1996) and the dual role of Duke Frederick and Duke Senior in As You Like It (2006). He also provided the voices of Bob in the animated series Kika & Bob (2008) and Grampy Rabbit in Peppa Pig.
Actors: Robben Muñoz (editor), Robert Salazar (actor), Robert Salazar (writer), Robert Salazar (director), Robert Salazar (editor), Ross Chait (actor), Alex Kotlikoff (actor), Nicole Le (actor), Julia Melfi (actor), Will Banfield (actor), Pipo Nguyen-Duy (actor), Sarah Rosengarten (actor), Julia Rudolph (actor), Arif Silverman (actor), Colin Wulff (actor),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Sidney Lumet (miscellaneous crew), Sam Neill (actor), Guy Pearce (actor), Terry Ryan (costume designer), Miranda Otto (actress), Graeme Blundell (actor), Rebecca Gibney (actress), Steven Vidler (actor), Barbara Gibbs (producer), Kristin Witcombe (miscellaneous crew), Justine Clarke (actress), Damien Garvey (actor), Diane Craig (actress), Thom Mount (producer), Jeremy Sims (actor),
Genres: Drama, Thriller,Actors: Stephen E. Miller (actor), Teryl Rothery (actress), Gordon Clapp (actor), Harry Hamlin (actor), Sandor Stern (director), Michele Greene (actress), Don Thompson (actor), Michael O'Hara (producer), Lawrence Horowitz (producer), Tracey Jeffrey (producer), Cameron K. Smith (actor), Stacy Widelitz (composer), Susan Weir (miscellaneous crew), Bob Morrisey (actor), Michael Rogers (actor),
Genres: Thriller,Actors: Madeleine Fant (miscellaneous crew), Bjørn Sundquist (actor), Annemarie Aaes (miscellaneous crew), Patrick Doyle (composer), Francie Brown (miscellaneous crew), Lotte Dandanell (costume designer), Gabriel Byrne (actor), Nils Pagh Andersen (editor), Peter Elliott (miscellaneous crew), John M. Jacobsen (producer), Penelope Gottlieb (miscellaneous crew), Burke Mattsson (miscellaneous crew), Eva von Hanno (actress), John Sigurd Kristensen (actor), Nigel Wooll (producer),
Plot: Haakon Haakonsen didn't want to go to sea so young, but when his father, a Norwegian sailor, comes home with a badly wounded foot in the 1850s, the Haakonsen family finances require him to enlist as ship boy aboard a British ship under Royal Navy authority. After some hazing he buckles up to learn the hard work and gets accepted by the rough crew. Then Royal Navy lieutenant John Merrick is welcomed to take charge of security on a long voyage to Sidney and Calcutta, through pirates-infested waters, but Haakon distrusts him after finding out that he packed concealed weapons; indeed Merrick secretly poisons the captain. Haakon and his guardian angel, his father's best mate Jens, were about to feel the claw of the cat for helping a stowaway when a rock wrecks the ship. Haakon washes up an island where he finds a pirates treasure and weapons.
Keywords: 13-year-old, 1850s, adolescent, bare-chested-male, based-on-book, boy, cabin-boy, cat, character-name-in-title, childrenActors: John Vernon (actor), Donald Ginsberg (editor), Frank Adamson (actor), Don Haldane (director), Kristine M. Gilbert (miscellaneous crew), Ben Barzman (miscellaneous crew), Stephan Fanfara (editor), Ralph L. Thomas (producer), Jim Osborne (miscellaneous crew), Fred Nicolaidis (miscellaneous crew), Scott Walker (actor), George Waight (actor), Cliff Gardner (actor), Deborah Kip (actress), Janet Kranz (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: Due to runoff and soil condition problems resulting from the Garrison Irrigation Project just across the Canada/US border, and frustrated by the failure of their elected representitives to help them, a group of Manitoba farmers take matters into their own hands to stage an act of civil disobedience.
Genres: Drama,Actors: Cec Linder (actor), David Warner (actor), Michael J. Reynolds (actor), Honor Blackman (actress), Lois Maxwell (actress), Tim Henry (actor), John Friesen (actor), John Bayliss (actor), Kirk Jones (editor), Josie Fulford (miscellaneous crew), Lucio Agostini (composer), Alan Bridges (director), Jon Granik (actor), George Willoughby (producer), Trudy Young (actress),
Plot: Henry Buchanan, an English schoolmaster, comes to teach in a small Canadian town. His outspoken views on the evil of the approaching World War II causes a ripple in the small town, and when it is discovered that he was a conscientious objector in World War I, the citizens of the town are outraged. But it's his friendships with both the enigmatic rich recluse Mrs Boswell and Clarissa, the daughter of the town's most prominent citizen, that will get Henry into the most trouble of all...
Keywords: affair, conscientious-objector, drunkenness, female-nudity, independent-film, jealousy, pacifist, pariah, schoolteacherActors: Jeremy Bulloch (actor), Geoffrey Keen (actor), Donald Pleasence (actor), Bryan Pringle (actor), Jean Anderson (actress), Leslie Norman (director), Joan Davis (miscellaneous crew), Geoff Freeman (miscellaneous crew), Mary Merrall (actress), Eleanor Summerfield (actress), Richard O'Sullivan (actor), Laurie Johnson (composer), Aubrey Woods (actor), Peter Reynolds (actor), Michael Craze (actor),
Plot: John Saunders is a teacher, just out of training college, who takes over a class of badly behaved children in an inner city school. The general rule amongst the other teachers is to enforce discipline with the cane, but Saunders has other ideas, but he has to fight against another teacher, who has a vicious streak.
Keywords: based-on-novel, beating-with-a-cane, beehive-hairdo, black-and-white, black-eye, black-nylon-stockings, blonde, brawl, british-school-system, bronchitisActors: Tristram Coffin (actor), John Mitchum (actor), Sheila Bromley (actress), Edmund L. Hartmann (producer), Gail Patrick (producer), Edmund L. Hartmann (writer), Jacques Tourneur (director), Erle Stanley Gardner (writer), Don Megowan (actor), Margaret Field (actress), Maurice Manson (actor), Alex Sharp (actor), Movita (actress), Allison Hayes (actress), Benay Venuta (actress),
Plot: Light-hearted pilot for a proposed CBS detective series featuring character created by Erle Stanley Gardner (under the pseudonym of A.A. Fair). Penny-pinching, rotund Bertha Cool runs a detective agency while her dimunitive junior partner Donald Lam provides the legs and padded expense account. In the pilot, Lam's investigation of infidelity leads to murder.
Keywords: detective-agency, hard-boiled, pilot, tightwad, widowActors: Hank Bell (actor), Paul Bradley (actor), Steve Clark (actor), Frank McCarroll (actor), Tom Steele (actor), Dale Van Sickel (actor), Harvey Parry (producer), Richard Talmadge (producer), Harvey Parry (writer), Richard Talmadge (writer), Lee Zahler (composer), Harvey Parry (director), Richard Talmadge (director), John Daheim (actor), Sol Gorss (actor),
Plot: A wildcat oil outfit is seeking to take over the ranch belonging to Pop Martin and his son Bob and daughter Helen. Bob sends his ex-army pals a "stay-way" message, which brings them on the double. The WW II vets use their jeeps, first for a cattle roundup, and then to round up the gang of crooks, including the crooked family-lawyer Thatcher, brains of the gang.
Keywords: 1940s, airplane, army-veteran, attorney, b-movie, b-western, brother-sister-relationship, cattle-roundup, cattleman, chaseActors: Eddie Fetherston (actor), Thurston Hall (actor), Edgar Edwards (actor), Don 'Red' Barry (actor), Harry A. Bailey (actor), Tom Chatterton (actor), James Eagles (actor), Edmund Cobb (actor), Nick Copeland (actor), Kernan Cripps (actor), Louis Da Pron (actor), Lew Davis (actor), Vernon Dent (actor), John Dilson (actor), William Irving (actor),
Genres: Musical,