
Birthday:
11-11-1900
Deathday:
05-26-1971 (70 years)
Birthplace:
West Indies
Biography
John Longden was a West Indian-born English screen, stage, and television actor. He appeared in dozens of films from 1926 to 1964, including five (Blackmail, Juno and the Paycock, The Skin Game, Young and Innocent, Jamaica Inn) directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Longden appeared in numerous television series.
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Blackmail
Act like Detective Frank Webber
event1929 star_border 6.6
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London, 1929. Frank Webber, a very busy Scotland Yard detective, seems to be more interested in his work than in Alice White, his girlfriend. Feeling herself ignored, Alice agrees to go out with an elegant and well-mannered artist who invites her to visit his fancy apartment.
Young and Innocent
Act like Det. Insp. Kent
event1937 star_border 6.6
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Robert Tisdall finds on the beach the corpse of a woman he knew. Others wrongly conclude that he is the murderer. Fleeing, he desperately attempts to prove that he is not the killer. A young woman becomes embroiled in the effort.
Alias John Preston
Act like Richard Sandford
event1955 star_border 5.4
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A mysterious young man settles in a rural English town and immediately starts making a good impression. Before long he has insinuated himself into local life, is married and is serving on the board of the local hospital. Everything seems to be going well for him until a newly appointed consultant psychiatrist shows up and starts asking some probing questions.
Quatermass 2
Act like Chief Inspector Lomax
event1957 star_border 6.4
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In England, a group of space scientists led by Bernard Quatermass, who have developed plans for the first Moon colony, learn that a secret, ostensibly government-run, complex of identical design has been built in a remote part of England and is the focus of periodic falls of small, hollow "meteorites" originating in outer space. Quatermass determines to investigate and uncovers a terrifying extraterrestrial life form which has already begun action to take over the Earth.
Juno and the Paycock
Act like Charles Bentham
event1930 star_border 4.6
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During the Irish revolution, a family earns a big inheritance. They start leading a rich life, forgetting what the most important values of life really are. At the end, they discover they will not receive that inheritance; the family is destroyed and penniless. They must sell their home and start living like vagabonds.
The Skin Game
Act like Charles Hornblower
event1931 star_border 5.3
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An old traditional family and a modern family battle over land in a small English village.
Contraband
Act like Passport officer
event1940 star_border 6.9
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When a neutral Danish merchant ship is forced to put into port after trying to evade British wartime contraband control, its captain becomes involved in a beautiful British Naval Intelligent agent's efforts to capture a group of German spies operating from a London cinema.
Barging Along
Act like Narrator
event1941
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A short documentary following the lives of barge-folk on England's canals.
The Gaunt Stranger
Act like Inspector Bliss
event1938 star_border 6.2
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A lawyer receives a note telling him that he'll be dead in 48 hours - and Scotland Yard must work fast to uncover the serial killer known as 'The Ringer'.
The Last Post
Act like David / Martin
event1929
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'Soldier takes the blame when his Bolshevik brother shoots a soldier during the General Strike.' (British Film Catalogue)
Quinneys
Act like Joseph Quinney
event1927
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'Antique dealer's daughter loves foreman who makes fakes for ex-partner.' (British Film Catalogue)
The Arcadians
Act like Jack Meadows
event1927
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'Club-owner crashes plane in Arcady, land of truth and beauty.' (British Film Catalogue)
The Glad Eye
Act like Floquet
event1927
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'The story concerns the misadventures of two flighty husbands in Paris on the spree. They find an excuse for their absence from home by pretending that they are accompanying a famous airman on a flight, but the latter does not proceed according to plan, and they have a hard time countering the suspicious questionings and moves of the sophisticated wife.' (BFI)
The Ghosts of Berkeley Square
Act like Mortimer Digby
event1947 star_border 5.2
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The ghosts of two stupid 18th-century officers are doomed to haunt a Berkeley Square mansion until the unlikely event of a reigning monarch paying the house a visit. It will take more than 200 years... Based on the novel "No Nightingales" by Caryl Brahms and S.J. Simon.
So Evil, So Young
event1961 star_border 4
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A young girl is framed for a robbery and sent to a harsh reform school, where she becomes the target of a vicious warden.
The Adventures of Dusty Bates
Act like Tod Jenkins
event1947 star_border 4
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Dusty Bates observes some smuggled jewels hidden in a crate aboard a ship; he is pursued by low-lifes when the crate is put ashore.
It Isn't Done
Act like Peter Ashton
event1937
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Hubert Blaydon (Cecil Kellaway),a simple Australian farmer inherits a castle and a title in England, and moves his family from the farm to the castle. He also inherits a very stuffy, prim-and-proper butler who constantly reprimands Blaydon whenever he disobeys aristocratic protocol...which he often does.
Dangerous Cargo
Act like Worthington
event1954 star_border 5.2
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Inspired by the real events of the attempted heist at Heathrow Airport in 1952, a criminal tricks an old friend into giving away the location of a shipment of gold bullion so he and his gang can steal it.
The Lady Craved Excitement
Act like Inspector James
event1950 star_border 5.2
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A music-hall performer and her boyfriend find themselves caught up in the machinations of a trio of not particularly bright crooks.
Bonnie Prince Charlie
Act like Colonel O'Sullivan
event1948 star_border 4.7
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Scotland, 1745. After decades of exile, Prince Charles Edward Stuart secretly lands with the purpose of revolting the Highland chieftains against the German House of Hanover, ruler of Great Britain.
A Matter of Life and Death
Act like Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
event1946 star_border 7.7
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When a young RAF pilot miraculously survives bailing out of his aeroplane without a parachute, he falls in love with an American radio operator. But the officials in the other world realise their mistake and dispatch an angel to collect him.
Bad Boy
Act like Inspector Thompson
event1938
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Nick plans to go to Canada after being released from prison, but his old gang will not share out the loot from their last job.
The Wallet
Act like Man With Pipe
event1952
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A mystery thriller intended for US TV.
Jamaica Inn
Act like Captain Johnson (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 6.1
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In coastal Cornwall, England, during the early 19th Century, a young woman who's come there to visit her aunt, discovers that she's married an innkeeper who's a member of a gang of criminals who arrange shipwrecking and murder for profit.
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Act like Raven (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 7.3
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A shy British teacher looks back nostalgically at his long career, taking note of the people who touched his life.
Meet Mr. Callaghan
Act like Jeremy Meraulton
event1954 star_border 6
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A young woman is framed for the murder of a wealthy man who met his death at the hands of his heirs.
The Last Load
event1948
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David and Monty are two friends of Susan and Betty Potter whose father runs a fleet of lorries. One by one, his lorries are involved in accidents and sabotage is suspected. The children are determined to find the culprits.
Q Planes
Act like John Peters, a Pilot
event1939 star_border 5.9
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In England, an eccentric police inspector, an earnest test pilot and a spunky female reporter team up to solve the mystery of a series of test aircraft which have disappeared without a trace while over the ocean on their maiden flights; unaware, as they are, that a spy ring has been shooting the planes down with a ray machine hidden aboard a salvage vessel which is on hand to haul the downed aircraft aboard, crews and all.
The Flame of Love
Act like Lieutenant Boris Boriskoff
event1930 star_border 5.5
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A Chinese troupe star and the Grand Duke's adjutant fall in love, to tensions from both sides' respective comrades.
Innocent Sinners
Act like Admiral
event1958 star_border 7
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A neglected girl in post-World War II London befriends street urchins who help her build a tiny garden in a bombed-out church.
Thoroughbred
Act like Bill Peel
event1936 star_border 6
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Joan (Helen Twelvetrees) is a Canadian, adopted by Ma Dawson (Nellie Ferguson), a struggling horse breeder and trainer. Joan thinks "legs don't make a race horse, it's blood", and so she buys an unwanted thoroughbred colt called Stormalong. Helped by Ma's son Tommy Dawson (Frank Leighton), Joan restores the horse to health and fitness, and soon enough the horse is winning race after race, becoming a favourite for the Melbourne Cup.
Elstree Calling
Act like Himself
event1930 star_border 5.1
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A series of 19 musical and comedy "vaudeville" sketches presented in the form of a live television broadcast hosted by Tommy Handley (as himself).
Hindle Wakes
Act like Boyfriend
event1931
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A Lancashire mill girl has an illicit adventure with the owner's son while on holiday. Based on the once notorious Houghton play.
The Silence of Dean Maitland
Act like Dean Maitland
event1934 star_border 5
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Dean Maitland (John Longden), a young man in orders and engaged to a woman, is involved in a tragedy, to reveal the details of which would ruin his career. The Dean denies responsibility for both the pregnancy of his lover Alma Lee (Charlotte Francis), and the death of her father, whom it turns out was enraged at the Dean's behaviour, attacked him and was killed in a fall. His friend, Dr. Everard (John Warwick), is found guilty of the death on false evidence, and Maitland allows him to suffer 20 years imprisonment. When the doctor is released from prison, bitter and seeking revenge, the Dean must confront his silence and his guilt, and the climax is the Dean's confession from the pulpit of his sins...
Sherlock Holmes: The Man Who Disappeared
Act like Sherlock Holmes
event1951 star_border 6
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Adaptation of an Arthur Conan Doyle novel, in which Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson investigate the secret of a wealthy businessman.
An Honourable Murder
Act like Julian Caesar
event1960 star_border 5
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A modern boardroom take on Julius Caesar.
Born Lucky
Act like Frank Dale
event1933
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A humble girl's rise to fame.
Rynox
Act like Anthony Xavier 'Tony' Benedik
event1931 star_border 5.5
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Things are not all well at Rynox House, where the company is on the verge of collapse. At the same time, its senior partner, FX Benedik, keeps receiving threats from the disgruntled Boswell Marsh, who is seen in town buying theatre tickets and revolvers. As the Rynox staff, including the young Tony Benedik, work to keep the business afloat, FX invites Marsh to settle his grievances at his house one fateful night....
The Common Touch
Act like Stuart Gordon
event1941 star_border 7
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The Common Touch is a 1941 British drama film directed by John Baxter and starring Geoffrey Hibbert, Harry Welchman, Greta Gynt and Joyce Howard. On the death of his father, an eighteen-year old lad leaves school to take over the family firm in the City of London. Realising the other directors want to keep him in the dark he starts asking questions, and is soon undercover as a down-and-out in a hostel which will disappear if a company building project goes ahead.
Jennifer Hale
Act like Police Inspector Merton
event1937 star_border 5
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Quota quickie with Rene Ray as Jennifer Hale, a chorus girl wanted for questioning in the murder of a theatrical producer. Fleeing to Manchester she becomes a taxi dancer under an assumed name, meets architect Ballard Berkley who falls in love with her.
Piccadilly
Act like Man from China (uncredited)
event1929 star_border 6.4
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A young Chinese woman, working in the kitchen at a London dance club, is given the chance to become the club's main act.
Pool of London
Act like DI Williams
event1951 star_border 6.4
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Jewel thieves, murder, and a manhunt swirl around a sailor off a cargo ship in post-war London.
The Black Widow
Act like Mr. Kemp
event1951 star_border 5
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Mark Sherwin is driving down a country lane when he comes across someone laying in the middle of the road. Thinking it is someone who has been hit by a car he stops to see if he can help. What he gets for his efforts is a vicious belt to the head from a lead cosh. He is then relieved of his wallet and his car. Several minutes later having somewhat recovered, he staggers to a nearby farmhouse and collapses.
Tower of Terror
Act like Commander
event1941 star_border 5.5
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Wartime Germany: Marie, a concentration camp escapee on the run from the Nazis, narrowly escapes drowing when she is rescued by Wolfe Kristan a half-mad lighthouse keeper. Brought aboard the lighthouse itself, she begins to fall in love with the assistant keeper who, unknown to her, is a British spy. As the couple become more intimate, Kristan's jealously finally pushes him over the brink and into full-blown madness...
Children of Chance
Act like Jeffrey
event1930
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A casual date at a high-class hotel leads Binnie, an aspiring showgirl, to be mistaken for model and actress Lia de Marita – landing her an audition for the producer of a new musical stage show. Marvelling at her good fortune, what Binnie doesn't know is that Lia is also the wife of a notorious jewel thief and that she's already fled the country in possession of a valuable, ill-gotten necklace!
Two Worlds
Act like Lt. Stanislaus von Zaminsky
event1930
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An old Jewish man is forced to hide the Austrian lieutenant who killed his son and loves his daughter.
The Ringer
Act like Inspector Wembury
event1931
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Scotland Yard detectives hunt for a dangerous criminal who has recently returned to England.
Two Crowded Hours
Act like Harry Fielding
event1931
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A murderer is on the run from prison and is out to get everyone, especially the girl, who put him there. The detective gives chase with the help of a London cabbie who has aspirations of becoming a policeman himself.
The Wickham Mystery
Act like Harry Crawford
event1931
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'Crooks steal pearls and helicopter plans.' (British Film Catalogue)
Murder on the Second Floor
Act like Hugh Bromilow
event1932
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A novelist imagines the murders of his fellow tenants...
Atlantic
Act like Lanchester
event1929 star_border 4.9
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English-language version. "Atlantic" is a drama film based on the sinking of the RMS "Titanic" and set aboard a fictional ship, called the "Atlantic". The main plotline revolves around a man who has a shipboard affair with a fellow passenger, which is eventually discovered by his wife. The ship also has aboard an elderly couple, the Rools, who are on their anniversary cruise. Midway across the Atlantic Ocean, the "Atlantic" strikes an iceberg and is damaged to the point where it is sinking into the Atlantic.
The House of Marney
event1927
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An Essec sailor helps a girl save an heir from his crooked uncle.
Unpublished Story
Act like Metcalf
event1942 star_border 6.3
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Morale-boosting story released in the middle of World War II. A journalist uncovers a peace organisation at the centre of disreputable dealings.
Death by Design
Act like Inspector Slade
event1943
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Dastardly deeds are afoot in a smog of pipe smoke when a man is found dead - is it cyanide poisoning or smoke inhalation?
Palais De Danse
Act like No. 1
event1928
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The head taxi dancer at a Tottenham dancehall blackmails a Lady to make her stop her son's affair with a poor but courageous dancer
The Lion Has Wings
Act like Unnamed Character
event1939 star_border 6.2
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This early, influential propaganda film blends documentary and studio footage to show the valiant efforts of the Royal Air Force to defend the British people against the Nazis.
The Magic Box
Act like Speaker in Connaught Rooms
event1952 star_border 6.3
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Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to include his first wife's so that it sounded more impressive for the photographic portrait work he was so good at. But he was also an inventor and his search for a way to project moving pictures became an obsession that ultimately changed the life of all those he loved.
Frozen Alive
Act like Prof. Hubbard
event1964 star_border 4.2
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A scientist experimenting with suspended animation decides to use himself as a test subject. Before he is frozen, his wife is killed, and he is suspected of her murder. a murder suspect.
One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
Act like Ground Officer (uncredited)
event1942 star_border 6.5
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On its way back from a raid on the city of Stuttgart, Germany, a British bomber is shot down over Nazi-held Holland. Parachuting into Dutch farmlands under cover of darkness, the six-member crew connects with members of the local resistance, who shelter the Brits from their Nazi inquisitors as they make their way towards freedom.
Old Mother Riley's Circus
Act like Bill
event1941 star_border 4.4
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Mother Riley takes over a circus on the point of closing down, and makes it a success.
The Silver Fleet
Act like Jost Meertens
event1943 star_border 6
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Jaap van Leyden is in charge of a shipyard in newly occupied Holland. At first he collaborates with the Germans because it is the easiest course to follow. Later a child's rhyme reminds him of his patriotic duty, but how best to resist the Nazis without endangering his wife and fellow workers?
The Man Who Finally Died
Act like Munch
event1963 star_border 6.2
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Joe Newman, a naturalised Briton, is telephoned by his German father, whom he believed long dead, at the same time as a funeral is taking place in Bavaria - with his father's name on the coffin. His investigation in Bavaria reveals startling facts and the obstruction he meets makes him suspect foul play.
The Elusive Pimpernel
Act like The Abbot
event1950 star_border 6
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A British aristocrat goes in disguise to France to rescue people from The Terror of the guillotine.
The Ship That Died of Shame
Act like Detective
event1955 star_border 6.9
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After World War II the crew of a motor gunboat join together to buy their old vessel and go into business for themselves. This may sound like a laudable scheme, but the business they choose to go into is smuggling.
A Woman's Temptation
event1959
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Lost Danziger's crime cheapie.
Anna Karenina
Act like Gen. Serpuhousky
event1948 star_border 6
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Stefan and Dolly Oblonsky have had a spat and Stefan has asked his sister, Anna Karenina, to come down to Moscow to help mend the rift. Anna's companion on the train from St. Petersburg is Countess Vronsky who is met at the Moscow station by her son. Col. Vronsky looks very dashing in his uniform and it's love at first sight when he looks at Anna and their eyes meet.
For Dealers Only
event1937
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This is a film made for Ford dealerships, encouraging them to smarten up their showrooms and organise their sales tactics. Slovenly Mr Sinclair is shown how to get his garage fit for purpose by Ford publicity guru Mr Harding. Soon the untidy pile of out of date brochures are replaced by a bespoke Ford display cabinet, prospects are safely organised in a card index system and there are"fine photographs of Dagenham" on the walls. This is a fascinating insight into branding and sales, 1930s style.
Broad Waterways
event1959
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'Water', says the transport man, 'is lovely stuff' - and the development plan for British Waterways is based on this belief. The film shows parts of the plan in action, then goes to the N.E. Division, where a skipper is taking 110 tons of newsprint from Hull to Nottingham. 'As a drink', says the transport man, 'you may not think much of it. But used like this...'
The Count of Monte Cristo
(1 ep.)
event1956 star_border 4.4
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The Count of Monte Cristo was a 1956 ITC Entertainment/TPA television series adapted very loosely from the novel by Alexandre Dumas, adapted by Sidney Marshall. It premiered in the UK in early 1956 and ran for 39 thirty-minute episodes. The first twelve episodes were filmed in the United States, at the Hal Roach studios, with the rest being filmed at ITC's traditional home of Elstree.
A 5-disc DVD set containing all thirty-nine episodes was released by Network Studio on 12 April 2010.
ITC produced a film based on the same source-material, The Count of Monte-Cristo, in 1975.
Interpol Calling
Act like Lord Ruskington (1 ep.)
event1959 star_border 6.7
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The adventures of Interpol policemen Duval and Mornay as they fought against international drug-running, homicide, robbery and forgery.
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Act like The Abbot (1 ep.)
event1955 star_border 6.1
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The legendary character Robin Hood and his band of merry men in Sherwood Forest and the surrounding vicinity. While some episodes dramatised the traditional Robin Hood tales, most episodes were original dramas created by the show's writers and producers.
The Adventures of William Tell
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event1958 star_border 6.3
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The Adventures of William Tell is a British swashbuckler adventure series, first broadcast on the ITV network in 1958, and produced by ITC Entertainment.
Man from Interpol
Act like Superintendent Mercer (39 ep.)
event1960 star_border 7
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From the cobble-stoned streets of Vienna ... to the shadowy alleys of Morocco ... danger lies in waif for Special Agent Smith. "MAN FROM INTERPOL" is a weekly adventure series starring Richard Wyler as Anthony Smith, special agent in Scotland Yard's Interpol Division, a member ol the world's mightiest international police organization. Working together, the member nations of Interpol wage a relentless war against International crime. In the thick of the most dangerous maneuvers of criminal society, Smith and others like him in many countries, work alone and then pool their efforts to bring international criminals to justice.
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