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Kipper (1977)
Character: Jack
Kipper is obsessed with Manor Park Football Club. At his workplace, this obsession attracts the derision of two of his colleagues. Meanwhile, Manor Park are to play against Dutch club Ajax
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The Cage (1983)
Character: Mr Adams
Written by Ray Jenkins. Paula is the only girl in the assessment centre who doesn't know the date she can leave. Paula worries about what will happen to her
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Freedom of the Dig (1978)
Character: Hughes
After 15 years in HM Prisons, Emerson just wants to keep his nose clean and get out. Working on the Stone Age fort keeps him away from trouble, but there are other problems apart from the weather
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The Grudge Fight (1981)
Character: Beryl's Dad
As they go by lorry to start their apprenticeship as Royal Naval Artificers, Pike and Brooks take a tacit dislike to one another. It's going to end in a fight.
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Keeping in Touch (1982)
Character: Father
When James pays one of his periodic visits to his mother he finds her curiously resigned to the loneliness she has suffered for the years since her husband's death. Somehow she has managed to keep all the family ties intact.
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True Patriot (1977)
Character: Judge Thorbeck
Dietrich Bonhoeffer , theologian, academic and pastor, was convicted and hanged for being implicated in plots against Hitler. He was hanged in April 1945, one month before the end of the war in Europe.
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Age of Hypocrisy (1977)
Character: Sam
1964. During a general election campaign, lecturer Terry Iverson is forced to question his own beliefs and values when he's faced with a potentially campaign-ending family situation.
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Starlings (1988)
Character: Mr Wilson
Starlings are the charlatans of the bird world; they change their tune to match their company. In this comedy, Gary Wilson is the changeling; he loses his factory job, retrains as a butler and, under the patronage of a wealthy young woman, finds success in the City.
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Bodywork (2001)
Character: Sydney Greengrass
Virgil Guppy buys a sleek-looking used Jaguar, but the car turns out to be a lemon. Unfortunately, that's just the start of his problems; a dead prostitute is discovered in the trunk, and Virgil is accused of her murder. Aided by a dysfunctional family of thieves, unorthodox police procedure and some clever body work of his own, he sets out to clear his name.
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The Pigeon Fancier (1971)
Character: Club Secretary
When Len Shelton retires from a life of work in the coal mines, he turns to his first love - pigeons, which become a symbol of hope for him.
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The Vanishing Army (1978)
Character: Hampshire
"Why don't you keep that missus o' yours under control? She ain't exactly doin' you a packet o' good, is she? If she was mine I'd bloody put 'er right, I'll tell yer." The marriage of an introverted Scottish army sergeant and his loving, but independent wife is threatened by military life.
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Chariot of Fire (1970)
Character: Prison Gate Officer
A prison visitor becomes involved with a convicted sex offender.
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Redemption (1991)
Character: Arthur Whadcoat
After 16 years away Stan Peachey returns to his village. His wife still loves him but his sister wants revenge. What was his crime?
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The Burston Rebellion (1985)
Character: Farmer Edwards
Drama reconstructing the events of a strike by the schoolchildren of a Norfolk school in 1914, who refused to accept the dismissal of their teachers, Tom and Annie Higdon, who were both socialists.
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Doctor Who: Terror of the Autons (1971)
Character: Radio Telescope Director
The Master, an old adversary of the Doctor, has arrived on Earth to destroy humanity with the aid of the Nestene Consciousness and their army of Autons and killer plastic daffodils - unless the Doctor, joined by new assistant Jo Grant, can stop them.
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Oliver Twist (2005)
Character: Elderly Officer
When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and his criminal mentor, Fagin. When kindly Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver in, Fagin's evil henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy.
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The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)
Character: Street Vagrant (uncredited)
When illegal card dealer and recovering heroin addict Frankie Machine gets out of prison, he decides to straighten up. Armed with nothing but an old drum set, Frankie tries to get honest work as a drummer. But when his former employer and his old drug dealer re-enter his life, Frankie finds it hard to stay clean and eventually finds himself succumbing to his old habits.
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Country (1981)
Character: Ashford
In 1945, the Carlions assemble at an English country house for a family gathering. During the event, they must determine who is to take over the family brewing empire, since the present head of the business, Sir Frederick, is getting old. The results of the 1945 general election causes a major stir, and some angry farmers occupy a barn.
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Exploits at West Poley (1985)
Character: Ned Jones
Somerset 1850. Two boys exploring an underground cave, divert the course of a river and drastically change the lives of the people of two villages.
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The Many Lives of Albert Walker (2002)
Character: Brig. Kilroy
After killing his English partner, a Canadian businessman assumes his identity. Things begin to fall apart for him when the murdered man's body is found.
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The Treasure of Abbot Thomas (1974)
Character: Mr. Tyson / Father Dominic
The Reverend Justin Somerton, a scholar of medieval history, and his protégé Lord Peter Dattering are visiting an abbey library. While studying a stained glass window, they uncover clues leading to a treasure hidden by a disgraced abbot.
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The Missionary (1982)
Character: Sir Cyril Everidge
In 1905, after 10 years of missionary work in Africa, the Rev. Charles Fortesque is recalled to England, where his bishop gives him his new assignment - to minister to London's prostitutes.
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The Set-Up (1949)
Character: Photographer (uncredited)
Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.
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The Young Poisoner's Handbook (1995)
Character: Uncle Jack
Graham Young is a teenage misfit living in suburban London in the 1960s. He hates his stepmother but loves chemistry, and the two impulses unite in a wicked plot to slowly poison her. After she dies, he's found guilty and sent to a psychiatric hospital, where an idealistic doctor thinks he can be cured.
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Champions (1984)
Character: Charles
The true story of jockey Bob Champion who overcame cancer to win the 1981 Grand National
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Closing Numbers (1993)
Character: Frank
Keith, Anna and their son Peter are a close, loving family living in a smart suburban street of a provincial city. Anna is a typical middle-class housewife, filling her day with good works, until one day, when she finds a note that leads to a shattering discovery - her husband has been having an affair. Anna's intense shock at finding out Keith's secret is compounded when she arranges to meet his lover. When Steve arrives at the meeting place, Anna is forced to accept the fact that Keith has been leading a double life for the length of their marriage. Steve stresses the risk of AIDS and urges Anna to have an AIDS test. To show her what it can be like to live with the disease, he introduces her to Jim, who needs 24-hour care and has developed a realistic attitude towards his own death. When Keith leaves home suddenly, Anna is forced to tell her son about the threat of HIV, but Peter turns violently against her and runs away.
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The Glitterball (1977)
Character: Supermarket Manager
When a group of small aliens accidentally abandons one of their own on Earth, adventurous kids Max and Pete stumble upon the "Glitterball" and attempt to return it to its mother ship. As the children learn more about the friendly alien and its magical powers, they must protect their new companion from an army corporal and a small-time thief who are both hunting the extraterrestrial for their own cruel purposes.
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Diane (1975)
Character: Weaver
Teenager Diane Weaver lives in a small council flat with her brooding father, the groundskeeper of a local church. What no one realises, is how close Diane and her father are.
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Stuart: A Life Backwards (2007)
Character: Stuart's Granddad
Story about the remarkable friendship between a reclusive writer and illustrator and a chaotic homeless man, whom he gets to know during a campaign to release two charity workers from prison.
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Witness for the Prosecution (1982)
Character: Chief Inspector Hearne
An ailing barrister is thrust back into the courtroom in what becomes one of the most unusual and eventful murder cases of the lawyer's career when he finds himself defending a man being tried for the murder of a socialite.
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Rough Cut (1980)
Character: Passport Clerk
Two sophisticated jewel thieves join forces to steal $30 million in uncut jewels.
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Three Men in a Boat (1975)
Character: River Hand
One hot June day, three friends decide there is nothing they would like to do more than to get away from London. A boating holiday with lots of fresh air and exercise would be just the very thing, or so their doctors tell them. So, after debating the merits of hotel or camp beds and what to pack, they set off on their voyage - a trip up the Thames from Henley to Oxford - but very quickly find themselves ill-equipped for the trials of riverbank life.
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