David Webb

David Alec Webb (6 March 1931 – 30 June 2012) was a British actor and anti-censorship campaigner. Webb was born in Luton, the second child and only son of Alec Webb, and attended Luton Grammar School from 1942 to 1950. He completed his National Service from 1950 to 1952, and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art from 1952 to 1954. In 1954 he joined the York Repertory Company, in 1955 the Bromley Repertory Company, and from 1955 to 1956 he toured in the play Love From Judy. He worked in television from the late 1950s onwards appearing in scores of programmes including Emergency – Ward 10, Dixon of Dock Green, and Doctor Who, among many others. In April 1976, he set up the anti-censorship pressure group, the National Campaign for the Repeal of the 1959 Obscene Publications Act; this was later amended to National Campaign for the Reform of the Obscene Publications Acts (NCROPA). NCROPA was very active from its inception through the 1980s, and in 1983 Webb stood as the anti-censorship candidate against the incumbent Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in her Finchley constituency. He was also a member of the Campaign Against Censorship. By the late 1990s, NCROPA was effectively moribund, and in December 2014, NCROPA was formally merged with the CAC. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)

Recently divorced career woman Alex Greville begins a romantic relationship with glamorous mod artist Bob Elkin, fully aware that he's also intimately involved with middle-aged doctor Daniel Hirsh. For both Alex and Daniel, the younger man represents a break with ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  John Schlesinger
CAST:  Peter Finch  •  Glenda Jackson  •  Murray Head  •  Peggy Ashcroft

Recently divorced career woman Alex Greville begins a romantic relationship with glamorous mod artist Bob Elkin, fully aware that he's also intimately involved with middle-aged doctor Daniel Hirsh. For both Alex and Daniel, the younger man represents a break with ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  John Schlesinger
CAST:  Peter Finch  •  Glenda Jackson  •  Murray Head  •  Peggy Ashcroft

Witchfinder General (1968)

England, 1645. The cruel civil war between Royalists and Parliamentarians that is ravaging the country causes an era of chaos and legal arbitrariness that allows unscrupulous men to profit by exploiting the absurd superstitions of the peasants; like Matthew Hopkins ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Michael Reeves
CAST:  Vincent Price  •  Ian Ogilvy  •  Rupert Davies  •  Hilary Dwyer

England, 1645. The cruel civil war between Royalists and Parliamentarians that is ravaging the country causes an era of chaos and legal arbitrariness that allows unscrupulous men to profit by exploiting the absurd superstitions of the peasants; like Matthew Hopkins ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Michael Reeves
CAST:  Vincent Price  •  Ian Ogilvy  •  Rupert Davies  •  Hilary Dwyer

Silent Predators (1999)

In 1979, a delivery truck makes its way up a lonely southern California highway in a storm, bound for the San Diego Zoo with a deadly tropical rattlesnake as cargo. When the truck suffers a blowout, the driver loses control and hits a tree, shattering the snake's ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Noel Nosseck
CAST:  Harry Hamlin  •  Shannon Sturges  •  David Spielberg  •  Patty McCormack

In 1979, a delivery truck makes its way up a lonely southern California highway in a storm, bound for the San Diego Zoo with a deadly tropical rattlesnake as cargo. When the truck suffers a blowout, the driver loses control and hits a tree, shattering the snake's ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Noel Nosseck
CAST:  Harry Hamlin  •  Shannon Sturges  •  David Spielberg  •  Patty McCormack

Diamonds for Breakfast (1968)

Swinging playboy Grand Duke Nicholas Goduno, a direct descendent of the Romanov family who were overthrown in the Russian Revolution of 1917, learns that his family's crown jewels will be exhibited at a London museum and plots to steal them. To this end, he gathers ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Christopher Morahan
CAST:  Marcello Mastroianni  •  Rita Tushingham  •  Elaine Taylor  •  Margaret Blye

Swinging playboy Grand Duke Nicholas Goduno, a direct descendent of the Romanov family who were overthrown in the Russian Revolution of 1917, learns that his family's crown jewels will be exhibited at a London museum and plots to steal them. To this end, he gathers ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Christopher Morahan
CAST:  Marcello Mastroianni  •  Rita Tushingham  •  Elaine Taylor  •  Margaret Blye

Rogue Male (1976)

In 1939, Sir Robert Thorndyke takes aim at Adolf Hitler with a high powered rifle, but the shot misses its mark. Captured and tortured by the Gestapo and left for dead, Sir Robert makes his way back to England where he discovers the Gestapo has followed him. ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Clive Donner
CAST:  Peter O'Toole  •  John Standing  •  Alastair Sim  •  Harold Pinter

In 1939, Sir Robert Thorndyke takes aim at Adolf Hitler with a high powered rifle, but the shot misses its mark. Captured and tortured by the Gestapo and left for dead, Sir Robert makes his way back to England where he discovers the Gestapo has followed him. ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Clive Donner
CAST:  Peter O'Toole  •  John Standing  •  Alastair Sim  •  Harold Pinter

Doctor Who: Colony in Space (1971)

When the Master steals the Time Lords' secret file on the Doomsday Weapon, they grant the Doctor a temporary reprieve from his exile on Earth to deal with the crisis. He and Jo arrive on the planet Uxarieus and become enmeshed in a struggle between an agrarian ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Michael E. Briant
CAST:  Jon Pertwee  •  Katy Manning  •  Nicholas Courtney  •  Roger Delgado

When the Master steals the Time Lords' secret file on the Doomsday Weapon, they grant the Doctor a temporary reprieve from his exile on Earth to deal with the crisis. He and Jo arrive on the planet Uxarieus and become enmeshed in a struggle between an agrarian ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Michael E. Briant
CAST:  Jon Pertwee  •  Katy Manning  •  Nicholas Courtney  •  Roger Delgado

Knockback: 1 (1985)

In 1965, at the age of 25, Alan Ackland is sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of a business associate. In 1971, Sylvia Barker, lonely and depressed after a failed marriage and with two young children to bring up alone, seeks a new direction in her life ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Piers Haggard
CAST:  Pauline Collins  •  Derrick O'Connor  •  Yee San Foo  •  Peggy Aitchison

In 1965, at the age of 25, Alan Ackland is sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of a business associate. In 1971, Sylvia Barker, lonely and depressed after a failed marriage and with two young children to bring up alone, seeks a new direction in her life ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Piers Haggard
CAST:  Pauline Collins  •  Derrick O'Connor  •  Yee San Foo  •  Peggy Aitchison