Birthday:
01-01-1927
Deathday:
02-20-2021 (94 years)
Birthplace:
London, England, UK
Biography
Actor and voice artist.
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Professional Foul
Act like Captain
event1977 star_border 6
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Three philosophy professors travel to Prague for a conference. One of them, Anderson, is forced to rethink his ideas on ethics when a former student is arrested by the Czech authorities for writing about individualist approaches to morality.
God on Trial
Act like Hugo
event2008 star_border 6.7
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In the Jewish tradition of arguing with God, Jewish prisoners in Auschwitz decide to put God on Trial.
The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz
Act like Exhumed rabbi
event2000 star_border 6.5
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The last day of creation. A stranger arrives in London. No one knows who he is or where he has come from. By the time he leaves, the entire universe will have been erased.
Zardoz
Act like Tabernacle (voice) (uncredited)
event1974 star_border 5.9
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In the far future, a savage trained only to kill finds a way into the community of bored immortals that alone preserves humanity's achievements.
The Hiding Place
Act like Eusie Koonstra
event1975 star_border 6.6
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The Hiding Place is an account of a Dutch family who risk their lives by offering a safe haven for Jews during World War II
Leon the Pig Farmer
Act like Sidney Geller
event1993 star_border 5.3
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An irreverent comedy is set in motion when Leon Geller, a sensitive Jewish boy from London, accidentally learns that his is the product of artificial insemination.
Something Nice to Eat
Act like Self - Commentator
event1967
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Cooking is a kind of loving, features Jean Shrimpton
Caprice
Act like Emilio (voice)
event1986 star_border 6.1
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A girl finds herself inside a fashion magazine – Joanna Hogg's graduation piece at the National Film and Television School starring a then unknown Tilda Swinton.
A Woman Called Golda
Act like David Ben-Gurion
event1982 star_border 8.1
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The story of the Russian-born, Wisconsin-raised woman who rose to become Israel's prime minister in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Separation
Act like Husband
event1968 star_border 6
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Separation concerns the inner life of a woman during a period of breakdown – marital, and possibly mental. Her past and (possible?) future are revealed through a fragmented but brilliantly achieved and often humorous narrative, in which dreams and desires are as real as the ‘swinging’ London (complete with Procul Harum music and Mark Boyle light show) of the film’s setting.
Diamonds Are Forever
Act like Doctor
event1971 star_border 6.4
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Diamonds are stolen only to be sold again in the international market. James Bond infiltrates a smuggling mission to find out who's guilty. The mission takes him to Las Vegas where Bond meets his archenemy Blofeld.
The Trial of Klaus Barbie
Act like Lawyer
event1987
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Decades after the end of World War II, escaped war criminal Klaus Barbie is brought to justice.
The Horsemen
Act like Mukhi (uncredited)
event1971 star_border 6.5
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In Afghanistan, the ruthless sport of buzkashi is a game of great pride. When Uraz breaks his leg and loses a spirited match, he brings shame to his village, especially his father. After losing his leg below the knee, Uraz, to regain his honor, must learn to ride again and win with a special, one-of-a-kind horse.
Murder on the Orient Express
Act like Turkish Ticket Collector (uncredited)
event1974 star_border 7.1
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In 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before.
Out of the Shadows
Act like James Bluminfeld
event1988 star_border 6
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A U.S. Embassy worker is helped by an Interpol agent to prove herself innocent of a murder in the Greek isles.
Song of London
Act like Commentator (Voice)
event1964
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A look at 60s London with Tommy Trinder and a host of other stars.
Ike
Act like FM Sir Alan Booke
event1979 star_border 6.2
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Eisenhower the military man is the focus of this mini-series, his relationships with the other wartime leaders, and, very discreetly, his personal relationship with his driver, Kay Summersby.
Red King, White Knight
event1989 star_border 5.7
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The CIA hears of a KGB scheme to assassinate the Soviet General Secretary and enlists Stoner, an agent retired for 10 years, to go to Russia to investigate. He verifies the plot, but then has trouble leaving the country. In the meantime, the U.S. policy makers struggle over whether or not to inform the Soviets of the plot. Stoner's problems are complicated by the renewal of an affair with Anna, a Russian, as he tries to convince her to defect.
Yentl
Act like Rabbi Zalman
event1983 star_border 6.7
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In a time when girls were forbidden to study religious scriptures, a Jewish girl masquerades as a boy to enter religious training and unexpectedly finds love along the way.
The Blood of Fu Manchu
event1968 star_border 4.4
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Fu Manchu inoculates ten women with poison, to kill ten world leaders.
Superman
Act like Warden (voice) (uncredited)
event1978 star_border 7.1
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Mild-mannered Clark Kent works as a reporter at the Daily Planet alongside his crush: Lois Lane. Clark must summon his superhero alter-ego when the nefarious Lex Luthor launches a plan to take over the world.
samuel-613
Act like Zeidy
event2015
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The story of Shmilu, a Hasidic Jew in crisis, torn between his community and the romantic possibilities of trendy East London.
All Quiet on the Western Front
Act like Cook (voice)
event1979 star_border 6.7
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At the start of World War I, Paul Baumer is a young German patriot, eager to fight. Indoctrinated with propaganda at school, he and his friends eagerly sign up for the army soon after graduation. But when the horrors of war soon become too much to bear, and as his friends die or become gravely wounded, Paul questions the sanity of fighting over a few hundreds yards of war-torn countryside.
The Ploughman's Lunch
Act like Gold
event1983 star_border 4.7
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As England begins its military engagement in the Falklands, a BBC news journalist attempts to climb up from his working-class roots, at any cost, lying to those around him to get what he wants, only to discover that he is the recipient of a deception far more clever than his own.
Valentino
Act like Joseph Schenck
event1977 star_border 5.9
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In 1926 the tragic and untimely death of a silent screen actor caused female moviegoers to riot in the streets and in some cases to commit suicide...
The Romantic Englishwoman
Act like George
event1975 star_border 5.5
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A marriage crisis between a writer and his wife leads her to flee to Germany and eventually return with another man, through whom the writer is going to overcome his writer's block.
The Plain Man's Guide to Advertising
event1962 star_border 8
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A surreal mix of advertising tropes from the 1960s is very funny but has a neat anti-capitalist undertow.
Leo the Last
Act like David
event1970 star_border 5.4
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Prince Leo, last in the line of rulers of a long-deposed monarchy on continental Europe and jaded with the frenetic search for kicks with the European jet-set, returns to his father's London town house for rest.
A Dry White Season
Act like Susan's Father
event1989 star_border 6.7
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During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody.
Simon Magus
Act like Rabbi
event1999 star_border 7.3
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Simon is an outcast from his Jewish community because he claims that the devil talks to him and he has the ability to put curses on crops. When Dovid asks the 'Squire' to sell him some land so he can build a railway station, a ruthless businessman from the neighbouring gentile community uses Simon to find out who wants to buy the land so he can 'persuade' him otherwise
Night Call
event1977
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A dramatised road safety film. Following a fatal motorway crash, a doctor talks to a journalist about what makes a good driver. But the journalist turns out to be the ghost of the man killed in the crash.
The Death of Adolf Hitler
Act like Narrator (voice)
event1973 star_border 6.3
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The final days in the Bunker, with Hitler becoming more and more paranoid, plumbing the depths of his madness and reaching his well deserved fate.
The Designated Mourner
Act like Howard
event1997 star_border 5.8
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Jack and Judy are husband and wife, and Howard is Judy's father. They live in some fictional undemocratic and repressive country, and tell us a story about their lives, mostly from Jack's point of view.
Voyage of the Damned
Act like Joseph Joseph
event1976 star_border 5.9
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A luxury liner carries Jewish refugees from Hitler's Germany in a desperate fight for survival.
In Camera
event1964 star_border 6
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A 1964 BBC adaptation of Sartre's "No Exit."
Catch Us If You Can
Act like Zissell
event1965 star_border 5.2
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Dinah is a famous model and actress who is getting tired of life in the limelight and wants to take a break. While shooting a commercial spot for meat, she meets Steve, a stuntman. Dinah and Steve hit it off and decide to head to an island to get away from it all, bringing along four of Steve's friends. Before long, Dinah is reported missing and everyone is looking for her, making their getaway anything but tranquil.
Sunshine
Act like Emmanuel Sonnenschein
event1999 star_border 6.5
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The fate of a Hungarian Jewish family throughout the 20th century.
The Secret Place
Act like Ticket Clerk (uncredited)
event1957 star_border 6.2
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British Melodrama and crime thriller that follows a group of jewel robbers after a major heist. The film makes extensive use of bombed out areas of London.
Bequest to the Nation
Act like French Commander (uncredited)
event1973 star_border 5
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Set before the Battle of Trafalgar, this is the story of relationship between Admiral Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton during the Napoleonic Wars.
Someone at the Top of the Stairs
Act like Cartney
event1973 star_border 7.5
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A young woman and her friend rent a room in a boarding house. Soon they become aware of the fact that the other "renters" are a very strange lot, and that there are some very odd goings-on in the house that seem to be centered in the attic... Part of the ITV 'Thriller' anthology series.
Dr. Fischer of Geneva
Act like Belmont
event1984 star_border 5.6
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Dr. Fischer has an unusual hobby — to expose human greed. How much humiliation will his fellow man endure enticed by valuable presents? Dignity for money! Death for money?
King David
Act like Ahitophel
event1985 star_border 5.5
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This is a movie about the life of Israel's king David.
A Touch of Class
Act like Doctor Alvarez
event1973 star_border 6.1
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Steve, a happily married American man living in London meets Vicki, an English divorcée and run off to Marbella for a rollicking week of sex. They then return to London to set up a cozy menage, despite the fact that he loves his wife and children, and now realize that he and Vicki have also fallen in love.
The Statement
Act like Dom André (as David De Keyser)
event2003 star_border 5.6
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The film is set in France in the 1990s, the French were defeated by the Germans early in World War II, an armistice was signed in 1940 which effectively split France into a German occupied part in the North and a semi-independent part in the south which became known as Vichy France. In reality the Vichy government was a puppet regime controlled by the Germans. Part of the agreement was that the Vichy Government would assist with the 'cleansing' of Jews from France. The Vichy government formed a police force called the Milice, who worked with the Germans...
Closer to the Moon
Act like Moritz
event2014 star_border 6.7
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A Romanian police officer teams up with a small crew of bank robbers to pull off a heist by convincing everyone at the scene of the crime that they are only filming a movie.
You Can't Win 'Em All
Act like Gunner Major (uncredited) (voice)
event1970 star_border 5.8
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During the 1922 Turkish Civil War, two Americans and a group of foreign mercenaries offer their services to a local Turkish governor who hires them as guards for a secret transport.
Hijack
Act like Self/Prosecution
event1971
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The fictional trial of two aeroplane hijackers, exploring their political motivation and whether hijacking a passenger plane can be justified.
Martin Luther, Heretic
Act like Duke Frederick
event1983
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Martin Luther inspires a breakaway from the Roman Catholic church and is the founder of Protestantism.
The Chauffeur
Act like Ambassador
event1976
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Joe, the chauffeur to an unnamed South American embassy, enjoys the small prks of privilege that his job provides him. When a coup in the country results in the ambassador's recall, his halycon life is upended.
Fothergill
Act like Curtis Bennett
event1981
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John Fothergill, aesthete and scholar, becomes the proprietor of the Spread Eagle, in Thame, Oxfordshire, with the intent of turning it into the most celebrated Inn in England, catering to the brightest lights in London's literati.
Ice Age
Act like Axel Reich
event1978
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' You should have thrown the hand-grenade.' ' I've still got it!' An unexpected stranger arrives at the old people's home in Norway where a famous writer is kept in confinement after the war. Should he be brought to trial for collaborating with the Nazis? Or will the young partisan carry through his original plan to kill him?
Man in the Sky
Act like Narrator
event1983
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A profile of David Perrin, one of Britain's most talented aerobatic pilots.
Disraeli
Act like Baron de Rothschild (4 ep.)
event1978 star_border 7.5
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Disraeli is a British four part serial about the great statesman and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Benjamin Disraeli.
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Act like Gaston Beaujeu (1 ep.)
event1989 star_border 8.1
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From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.
Doctor Who
Act like Atraxi (voice) (1 ep.)
event2005 star_border 7.5
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The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor saves planets for a living—more of a hobby actually, and the Doctor's very, very good at it.
Waking the Dead
Act like Marcus Freeman (2 ep.)
event2001 star_border 7.3
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A detective team apply new techniques to old crimes as they solve cold cases.
Confessional
Act like Professor Cherny (2 ep.)
event1989
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A secretive terrorist commits crimes to disrupt the peace process between the Irish and the Brits. Both sides want him dead. When he decides to assassinate the Pope and blame it on the U.K., only a musician with a secret past can stop him.
Crown Court
Act like Mr. Colllings (1 ep.)
event1972 star_border 5.4
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Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the ITV network that ran from 1972, when the Crown Court system replaced Assize courts and Quarter sessions in the legal system of England and Wales, to 1984.
The House of Eliott
Act like Sir Desmond Gillispie (9 ep.)
event1991 star_border 6.2
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Two sisters who set up a London fashion house for society of the early 1920s.
Bergerac
Act like Leon Crouzil (1 ep.)
event1981 star_border 6.5
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Bergerac is a British television show set on Jersey. Produced by the BBC in association with the Seven Network, and first screened on BBC1, it stars John Nettles as the title character Detective Sergeant Jim Bergerac, a detective in Le Bureau des Étrangers, part of the States of Jersey Police.
Playhouse
Act like Curtis-Bennett (1 ep.)
event1974 star_border 7
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BBC2 Playhouse is a one hour UK anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas created by Sara Pia Anderson and produced by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). Among its many notable guest stars were Helen Mirren, Daniel Day-Lewis, Judi Dench, Liam Neeson, Paul Scofield, Deborah Kerr, Ben Kingsley, Donald Pleasence, Brenda Blethyn, and Peggy Ashcroft.
It premiered in the UK on March 13, 1974 and ran through May 20, 1983.
The Adventures of William Tell
Act like Karl (1 ep.)
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.
Robin of Sherwood
Act like Joshua de Talmont (1 ep.)
event1984 star_border 7.6
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Robin of Sherwood was a British television series, based on the legend of Robin Hood. Created by Richard Carpenter, it was produced by HTV in association with Goldcrest, and ran from 1984 to 1986 on the ITV network. In America it was retitled Robin Hood and shown on the premium cable TV channel Showtime and on PBS. The show starred Michael Praed and Jason Connery as two different incarnations of the title character. Unlike previous adaptations of the Robin Hood legend, Robin of Sherwood combined a gritty, authentic production design with elements of real-life history, 20th century fiction, and pagan myth. The series is also notable for its haunting title music by Clannad, which won a BAFTA award.
The Professionals
Act like Otto Hahn (1 ep.)
event1977 star_border 7.4
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The lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their controller, George Cowley.
The mandate of CI5 was to fight terrorism and similar high-profile crimes. Cowley, a hard ex-MI5 operative, hand-picked each of his men. Bodie is a cynical ex-SAS paratrooper and mercenary whose nature ran to controlled violence, while his partner, Doyle, comes to CI5 from the regular police force, and is more of an open minded liberal. Their relationship is often contentious, but they are the top men in their field, and the ones to whom Cowley always assigned to the toughest cases.
Omnibus
Act like Self - Narrator (1 ep.)
event1967 star_border 7.4
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Omnibus was an arts-based BBC television documentary series, broadcast mainly on BBC1 in the United Kingdom. The programme was the successor to the long-running arts-based series 'Monitor'.
It ran from 1967 until 2003, usually being transmitted on Sunday evenings. During its 35-year history, the programme won 12 Bafta awards.
Among the series' best remembered documentaries are Cracked Actor, a profile of David Bowie, and Rene Magritte, a graduate film by David Wheatley, 'Madonna: Behind the American dream', a film produced by Nadia Hagger, and a profile of the British film director Ridley Scott.
For a season in 1982, the series was in a magazine format presented by Barry Norman.
The series was replaced by 'Imagine' hosted by Alan Yentob.
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