Floella Benjamin
Know for: Acting
Born: 1949-09-23
Place of birth: Trinidad, British West Indies [now Trinidad and Tobago]
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Run Fatboy Run (2007)
Five years after jilting his pregnant fiancée on their wedding day, out-of-shape Dennis decides to run a marathon to win her back.
Black Joy (1977)
An innocent and unsophisticated Guyanese immigrant is exposed to the hustlin' way of life in the Brixton ghetto.
I Don't Want to Be Born (1976)
A woman gives birth to a baby, but this is no ordinary little tyke. The child is seemingly possessed by the spirit of a freak dwarf who the mother...
Kids' TV: The Surprising Story (2022)
Konnie Huq celebrates the very best of British children’s television, with a dazzling array of clips from some of the most treasured programmes...
Nursery Rhymes (1982)
70 favourite traditional songs and rhymes presented as a pop-up book which comes to life through animation, puppetry & live performances. The...
A Hole in Babylon (1979)
Three black men rob a Knightsbridge Italian restaurant. But when the police are called and the robbery becomes a siege, the men find themselves in a...
Coming To England (2003)
"A story of a Windrush generation girl who came to Britain in 1960 from the Caribbean. Adapted from the book Coming to England [by Floella Benjamin],...
The Floater (1975)
A comedy about the law - seen from the inside. All formality and procedure on the surface but not quite so convincing when you see the works.
Rendition (2007)
When an Egyptian terrorism suspect "disappears" on a flight from Africa to Washington DC, his American wife and a CIA analyst find themselves caught...
Waterloo Sunset (1979)
Grace leaves her old folks' home to return to her birthplace in Lambeth, a place which has changed on the surface but at its heart is still the same.