
Birthday:
08-26-1903
Deathday:
04-01-1984 (80 years)
Birthplace:
London, England, UK
Biography
William Kendall was born on August 26, 1903 in London, England as William Isaac Kendall. Died on April 1, 1984 (age 80). He was an actor.
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The Assassination Bureau
Act like M. Marivaux at 'La Belle Amie'
event1969 star_border 6.4
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In 1908 London, a women's rights campaigner discovers the Assassination Bureau Limited, an organization that kills for justice. When its motives are called into question, she commissions the assassination of its chairman. Knowing that his colleagues have recently become more motivated by greed than morality, he turns the situation into a challenge for his board members: kill him or be killed.
The Jokers
Act like Maj. Gen. Jeffcock
event1967 star_border 6
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Brothers Michael and David Tremayne decide to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London, not for criminal purposes, but to make themselves famous.
Strictly Confidential
event1959 star_border 4.5
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Two con-men just released from prison get straight back to their old tricks.
Left Right and Centre
Act like Pottle
event1959 star_border 6
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At the Earndale by-election natural history expert and TV personality Bob Wilcot for the Conservatives finds himself up against Billingsgate girl Stella Stoker for the socialists. Amateur politician against committed activist. But could it become boy-who-fancies-girl against girl-who-fancies-boy? The party agents are soon colluding against such a disaster.
That's a Good Girl
Act like Timothy
event1933
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That's a Good Girl is a 1933 British comedy film directed by Jack Buchanan and starring Buchanan, Elsie Randolph and Dorothy Hyson. The film was based on a musical show of the same title that opened at the Lewisham Hippodrome on 19 March 1928, in which Jack Buchanan also starred. The music was written by Joseph Meyer and Phil Charig, with lyrics by Douglas Furber. The film omitted much of music of the original show, but popularised one song in particular, Fancy our Meeting. The song remained a Jack Buchanan favourite and a version of it was also recorded by Al Bowlly shortly after the film's release.
Some Girls Do
Act like Wing Commander Aston (uncredited)
event1969 star_border 5.9
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A series of unexplainable accidents befall the people and companies responsible for developing the world's first supersonic airliner. A British agent is sent to investigate and with the help of another agent uncovers a plot masterminded by Carl Petersen who stands to gain eight million pounds if the aircraft is not ready by a certain date.
The Trials of Oscar Wilde
Act like Lord Ashford
event1960 star_border 6.4
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England, 1890s. The brutal and embittered Marquis of Queensberry, who believes that his youngest son, Bosie, has an inappropriate relationship with the famous Irish writer Oscar Wilde, maintains an ongoing feud with the latter in order to ruin his reputation and cause his fall from grace.
The King's Cup
Act like Captain Richards
event1933
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'Romance set around the famous air race in which a girl helps a nervous pilot to victory.' (British Film Institute)
Honeymoon Postponed
Act like Joe Thompson
event1961
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Lancashire newlyweds Violet and Arthur Fitton are forced to postpone their honeymoon and move in temporarily with his parents.
Number Ten
Act like Andrew Lodge
event1968
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The Prime Minister heads a cabinet divided on the question of either using force against an African state, or referring the matter to the United Nations.
The Sky’s the Limit
Act like Robert D. Beamish
event1937
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Romance of an absent minded designer of planes and a famous singer to whom he tries to sell his friends' songs.
Sweet Devil
Act like Edward Bane
event1938
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Two business partners are having woman trouble. One wants to marry his secretary and the other is set to marry a wealthy aristocrat. When the partner who wants to marry his secretary lets her go before he proposes to her, the woman confused woman tries to commit suicide by jumping into a river. Complications ensue.
Doctor's Orders
Act like Jackson
event1934 star_border 6
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Leslie Fuller stars as a quack whose son qualifies as a doctor in total ignorance of his father's occupation!
Blind Folly
Act like Raine
event1939
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A man inherits a nightclub that belonged to his brother but soon discovers that it is the headquarters for a dangerous criminal gang.
Good Night, Vienna
Act like Ernst
event1932
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Max is an Austrian officer in the army and son of a highly placed general. His father wants him to marry a Countess but he has fallen in love with Vicki. Attending a party given in his honour, they are informed that war has broken out. Max writes a note to Vicki and goes off to war. Unfortunately the note is lost. Some time after the war, Max is just a shoe shop assistant while Vicki is now a famous singer. They meet and at first she snubs him but then falls in love with him again
Debt of Honour
Act like Paul Martin
event1936
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A Colonel's daughter steals from the regimental mess funds to pay off her gambling debts. One of the officers, who is love with her, takes the blame, and is sent to Africa.
A Touch of Larceny
Act like Tom
event1960 star_border 5.8
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After falling in love with an American woman, Virginia Killain, who is engaged to another man, British Naval Commander Max Easton, hatches a plan that will get him enough money to support Virginia in the lifestyle she is accustomed to. Easton's plan is to disappear for a time making it seem that he has defected to the Soviets taking important Naval secrets from his job at the Admiralty and to return and sue the newspapers for slander. Not everything goes as planned for Commander Easton.
Idol on Parade
Act like Commanding Officer
event1959 star_border 7
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A rock'n'roll idol is drafted into the wrong regiment.
The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery
event1966 star_border 5.9
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The all-girl school foil an attempt by train robbers to recover two and a half million pounds hidden in their school.
Jumping for Joy
Act like Blenkinsop
event1956 star_border 6.5
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At the racetrack, cleaner, Willy Joy is tricked into buying Lindy Lou, a useless greyhound, who's not too healthy either. While getting the dog back in shape, Willy crosses paths with a gang of crooks who's specialty is fixing the races with doped dogs.
Department S
Act like Sir Wilfred (1 ep.)
event1969 star_border 4.9
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Department S is a United Kingdom spy-fi adventure series produced by ITC Entertainment. The series consists of 28 episodes which originally aired in 1969–1970. It starred Peter Wyngarde as author Jason King, Joel Fabiani as Stewart Sullivan, and Rosemary Nicols as computer expert Annabelle Hurst. The trio were agents for a fictional special department of Interpol. The head of Department S was Sir Curtis Seretse.
The Beverly Hillbillies
(2 ep.)
event1962 star_border 6.8
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Jed Clampett's swamp is loaded with oil. When a wildcatter discovers the huge pool, Jed sells his land to the O.K. Oil Company and at the urging of cousin Pearl, moves his family to a 35-room mansion in Beverly Hills, California.
The Avengers
Act like Lord Dessington (1 ep.)
event1961 star_border 7.7
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The Avengers is a British television series created in the 1960s. It initially focused on Dr. David Keel and his assistant John Steed. Hendry left after the first series and Steed became the main character, partnered with a succession of assistants. His most famous assistants were intelligent, stylish and assertive women: Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King. Later episodes increasingly incorporated elements of science fiction and fantasy, parody and British eccentricity.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Act like Captain Morgan (1 ep.)
event1955 star_border 7.7
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A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
Detective
Act like Mr. Binns (1 ep.)
event1964
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A BBC anthology series featuring adaptations of detective stories over 45 episodes in three seasons that ran from 1964 to 1969. As with many BBC programmes made before the early 1970s, many of its episodes no longer exist. Of the eighteen episodes from the first season only twelve are currently known to exist; likewise six of the sixteen editions from the second run are considered lost, and just one of the final ten survives in the archives.
Sunday-Night Play
Act like Derek Forbes-Hillingdon (1 ep.)
event1960
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BBC anthology drama series that ran over four seasons and replaced the previous BBC Sunday Night Theatre series.
Hancock's Half Hour
(3 ep.)
event1956 star_border 7.5
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Hancock's Half Hour is a BBC radio comedy, and later television comedy, series of the 1950s and 60s written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. The series starred Tony Hancock, with Sid James; the radio version also co-starred, at various times, Moira Lister, Andrée Melly, Hattie Jacques, Bill Kerr and Kenneth Williams. The final television series, renamed simply Hancock, starred Hancock alone.
Comedian Tony Hancock starred in the show, playing an exaggerated and much poorer version of his own character and lifestyle, Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock, a down-at-heel comedian living at the dilapidated 23 Railway Cuttings in East Cheam.
The series was influential in the development of the situation comedy, with its move away from radio variety towards a focus on character development.
Maigret
(1 ep.)
event1960 star_border 6.9
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BBC series based on the novels by Georges Simenon which starred Rupert Davies as Inspector Maigret, a French police detective who preferred to watch and listen in order to solve crimes. The series ran from 1960-63 on British television.
The Human Jungle
Act like Colonel Richards (1 ep.)
event1963 star_border 8.2
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The Human Jungle is a British TV series about a psychiatrist, made for ABC Television by the small production company Independent Artists for transmission on ITV. Starring Herbert Lom, it ran for two series which were first transmitted during 1963 and 1965.
Persuasion
Act like Mr. Musgrove (5 ep.)
event1971 star_border 6.8
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British television adaptation of the Jane Austen novel of the same name.
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