Nigel Rathbone

Nigel Rathbone

Nigel Rathbone is a British actor who is perhaps best known for playing Steve Forbes in thirty three episodes of the TV series The Gentle Touch (1980-1984) as well as his role as Arpad Laszlo in the BBC TV play She Loves Me (1979). He played Tim Barber in ten episodes of Look and Read (1967-2004) and he also starred alongside Bob Hoskins in the TV series Pennies from Heaven (1978-1979) in the episode "Painting the Clouds". He also made appearances in films such as No Blade of Grass (1970), The Boy Who Turned Yellow (1972) and Home Before Midnight (1979). During his life he also worked on TV commercials for Birds Eye Burgers.

  • Title: Nigel Rathbone
  • Popularity: 0.4917
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1960-01-01
  • Place of Birth: Hammersmith, London, England, UK
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Nigel Rathbone Movies

  • 1970
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    No Blade of Grass
    No Blade of Grass

    5.2 1970 HD

    A strange new virus has appeared, which only attacks strains of grasses such as wheat and rice, and the world is descending into famine and chaos. Architect John, along with his family and friends, is making his way from London to his brother's farm in northern England where there will hopefully be food and safety for all of them.

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  • 1972
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    The Boy Who Turned Yellow
    The Boy Who Turned Yellow

    5.4 1972 HD

    John and his class visit the Tower of London, where he loses his pet mouse. He falls asleep during a lesson on electricity, but with some help, he learns about it, invades the Tower, and saves his pet.

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  • 1979
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    Home Before Midnight
    Home Before Midnight

    5.3 1979 HD

    A successful rock lyricist becomes romantically involved with a girl he picks up hitchhiking only to learn that she is only fourteen. Her parents take action against him.

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    She Loves Me
    She Loves Me

    8.7 1979 HD

    BBC production of the 1963 Broadway musical which was based on Ernst Lubitsch's 1940 film "The Shop Around The Corner."

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  • 1978
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    Grange Hill
    Grange Hill

    6.7 1978 HD

    Children's drama series following the lives of students and teachers at Grange Hill comprehensive school.

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  • 1980
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    The Gentle Touch
    The Gentle Touch

    6.9 1980 HD

    The Gentle Touch is a British police drama television series made by London Weekend Television for ITV which ran from 1980-1984. Commencing transmission on 11 April 1980, the series is notable for being the first British series to feature a female police detective as its leading character, ahead of the similarly themed BBC series Juliet Bravo by four months.

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  • 1978
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    Pennies from Heaven
    Pennies from Heaven

    7.7 1978 HD

    Pennies From Heaven is a 1978 BBC television drama serial written by Dennis Potter. The title is taken from a song of the same name written by Johnny Burke and Arthur Johnston. It was one of several Potter serials to mix the reality of the drama with a dark fantasy content, and the earliest of his works where the characters burst into miming to popular 1930s songs. During the Great Depression, a sheet music salesman seeks to escape his dreary life through popular music and a love affair with an innocent schoolteacher.

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