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Australia Marches with Britain: Highlights of the National War Effort (1941)
Character: Himself - Commentator (voice)
This film extols the over-producing wheat, meat, dairy, timber, steel, and Merino wool industries of Australia as assets to the Allied war effort. Describes the production of weapons and military supplies in Australian plants. "Dedicated to maintaining a life-line to Britain, Australia aids in the production of supplies and munitions for export; 'Aussie' troops are shown training and embarking for the front lines."
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Two Living, One Dead (1961)
Character: Engelhardt
Three Post Office employees are at work when the facility is held up. The robber kills the supervisor and knocks out another employee. The third one offers no resistance and survives unscathed. Afterwards he begins to wonder if his refusal to resist was a prudent move to preserve his family, or an act of cowardice, as many in the town believe. The resulting conflict begins to tear apart his family.
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The Murder Game (1965)
Character: Dr. Knight
A woman abandons her husband, changes her name, and remarries again. Complications ensue.
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Two Letter Alibi (1962)
Character: Police Doctor
Charles Hilary is in love with Kathy Forrester, a beautiful television personality, but is married to Louise, an alcoholic with as many lovers as whisky bottles. His pleas for a divorce are met with threats and abuse. "You'll have to murder me first", Louise tells him and three hours later she is found dead, shot with her husband's pistol. When Charles is arrested, Kathy desperately sets to work to prove his innocence.
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Calling Scotland Yard: Falstaff's Fur Coat (1954)
Character: N/A
Because of his luxurious fur coat, a hammy actor becomes involved with crooks. His coat resembles the one that a gang's fence wears, and he is continually finding stolen jewelry in his coat pockets. When the gang learns that he is planning to turn the loot over to Scotland Yard, they go gunning for him and wound him while he is on stage performing 'Falstaff.' And, although wounded, he continues with his performance, trouper that he is that believes the show must go on, while the police are apprehending the gunmen.
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Andover and the Android (1965)
Character: Barnaby
Roger Andover will inherit a fortune if he marries. But he is a solitary man with no ambition: human relationships mystify and dismay him. But to present a life-like female android as your wife: surely that will satisfy everyone? Andover finds more than he bargained for when his robot bride challenges his preconceptions about humanity.
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The Betrayal (1957)
Character: Inspector Baring
Fourteen years after he was blinded in a WWII concentration camp, a Canadian perfume executive travels to London on business and recognizes the voice of the traitor who betrayed him and his fellow prisoners to the Germans.
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Defenders of Tobruk (1941)
Character: Narrator
Australian newsreel, telling of the besieged Australian forces in Tobruk. Coverage shows dawn patrols, wrecks in Tobruk Harbour, tank patrols, anti-aircraft action against German planes, gun barrages, etc. also seen is the grave of first Australian VC (Victoria Cross) Corporal Edmondson and his mother at home holding the award.
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The Winslow Boy (1958)
Character: Desmond Curry
In pre-WW1 England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, but his parents raise a political furor by demanding a trial.
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Change Partners (1965)
Character: McIvor
An adulterous couple turn to murder, only to discover that a petty crook and blackmailer has already had his eye upon them.
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Doctor Who: The Claws of Axos (1971)
Character: Chinn
A group of gold-skinned aliens known as the Axons land on Earth and offer wondrous technology in exchange for fuel. The Doctor, however, isn't fooled, uncovering the Axons' true nature and once again facing his archenemy the Master...
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Final Appointment (1954)
Character: Harold Williams
A pair of reporters try to discover the link between three unsolved, seemingly isolated murders. The only connection between them is they all took place on the same day in three successive years. The police don't trust their instincts - but as 10th July nears again, a solicitor has started receiving threatening letters...
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Ten Little Indians (1959)
Character: General John Gordon Mackenzie
Ten strangers are invited to a mansion on a remote island, where they are killed one by one by a mysterious assailant. Based on the Agatha Christie novel, also known by the title And Then There Were None.
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Supersonic Saucer (1956)
Character: Bank Manager
A group of schoolchildren come upon an alien from Venus, and help him against a gang of criminals who are trying to kidnap him.
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Gift Horse (1952)
Character: Commander C.E. Spencer
Compton Bennett's war drama The Gift Horse follows the fortunes of ageing destroyer The Ballantrae and her crew from the time they come together in 1940 until the climactic raid on occupied St Nazaire in 1942. Trevor Howard plays Lt Cmdr Hugh Alginon Fraser, the newly appointed captain, back in service after having left the navy following a court martial.
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Make Mine Mink (1960)
Character: Gambler
In a mansion block in Knightsbridge, a gang of middle-aged biddies decide to brighten up "the dullness of the tea time of life" by staging a series of robberies on furriers, then donating the proceeds to charitable concerns. Terry Thomas as a retired army officer leads the gang, which includes Athene Seyler and Hattie Jacques, on a series of capers that nearly go awry when their maid, Billie Whitelaw, an ex-con and also a resident of the block, falls for a police officer.
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Dangerous Voyage (1954)
Character: Walton
A yacht in the English Channel is helped to port - when the police arrive there are no crew, no papers and no clues. What is the mystery of the ghost ship?
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Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks (1966)
Character: Governor Hensell
Following the Doctor's regeneration into a new, younger body, the TARDIS lands at an Earth colony on the planet Vulcan in the far future. Mistaken for an official Earth Examiner, the Doctor discovers that a scientist called Lesterson is attempting to reactivate two inanimate, subservient Daleks found in a crashed space rocket. The colonists refuse to heed the Doctor's dire warnings that the Daleks are dangerous.
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The Bismarck Convoy Smashed! (1943)
Character: Commentator (voice)
An Australia propaganda war film documenting the Battle of the Bismarck Sea. Nominated for the Academy Award.
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Separate Tables (1970)
Character: Sir Roger
A play by Terence Rattigan about the stories of several people staying at a seaside hotel in Bournemouth which features dining at "Separate Tables."
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Mother Riley Meets the Vampire (1952)
Character: BBC Announcer
The legendary Bela Lugosi as "the Vampire" teams up with Britain's much-loved "Mother Riley" in this hilarious comedy adventure. The Vampire plans to control the world with the help of his robot, which accidentally gets shipped to Mother Riley. Through radar control, he contacts the robot and orders it to come to him, bringing along Mother Riley! But his life is turned upside down when he holds this most meddling of mothers captive.
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Babes in Bagdad (1952)
Character: Officer
The Kadi of Bagdad has harem troubles in this low budget comedy from Edgar Ulmer.
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Pacific Destiny (1956)
Character: Uncle
Life is strange and worrying for a cadet who arrives in the Pacific in the colonial service. And the testy resident commissioner, who had been expecting an experienced man, soon shows his disapproval.
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John and Julie (1955)
Character: Station Master
The adventures of two children who runaway to London to see the coronation of Queen Elizabeth.
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Seagulls Over Sorrento (1954)
Character: Geoff
A Navy lieutenant is borrowed by the British to supervise torpedo experiments after one of their scientists is killed.
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