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The Government Inspector (1958)
Character: 3rd Merchant
Gogol's comedy of errors, satirizing human greed, stupidity, and the extensive political corruption of Imperial Russia.
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Dead Silence (1966)
Character: Chief Supt. Clyde
A Chief Inspector of Police is behaving rather erratically during a murder investigation.
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The Fanatics (1968)
Character: Laffiteau
The writer and philosopher Voltaire decides to take action when he hears of a case of a man being tortured after being accused of murdering his son.
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Master Spy (1964)
Character: Airport Controller
Boris Turganev (Murray) is a Russian scientist who has absconded from a Communist prison in an attempt to achieve a better life working for the British. As Boris struggles to make his superiors believe he is there to work and not to spy for the Russians, an office romance blossoms that could put his mission in jeopardy.
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The Double (1963)
Character: Det. Insp. Ames
A man who has been left for dead by the impostor who takes his place returns to bring him to justice.
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On the Run (1968)
Character: Removal Man
The story of the attempted kidnapping of the son of a visiting African potentate.
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Two Gentlemen Sharing (1969)
Character: Dickson Senior
An insecure Briton and a Briton of Jamaican descent share a London apartment together.
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Don't Touch Him, He Might Resent It (1970)
Character: Mr. Phelp
A group of business enjoying a lavish night on expenses at the Atlantis Hotel fear it is the end of the road for their fradulent collaboration when they suspect a Fraud Squad investigator is in their midst. Comedy based on an idea from Gogol's play 'The Government Inspector'.
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Dr. Crippen (1963)
Character: Dr. Rogers
A British physician stands trial for murdering his wife after he and his mistress are captured while fleeing to Canada.
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Unman, Wittering and Zigo (1971)
Character: Mr. Winstanley
A new schoolteacher learns that the previous teacher was killed by his students, and he fears the same fate will befall him.
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Becket (1964)
Character: Bishop of Chichester
Thomas Becket, Henry II's longtime advisor, finds his friendship with the debauched king corroding when he is unwillingly appointed as Archbishop of Canterbury in an attempt to gain absolute loyalty from the Church.
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King Rat (1965)
Character: Padre
When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942, the Allied POWs, mostly British but including a few Americans, were incarcerated in Changi prison. Among the American prisoners is Cpl. King, a wheeler-dealer who has managed to establish a pretty good life for himself in the camp. King soon forms a friendship with an upper-class British officer who is fascinated with King's enthusiastic approach to life.
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Whistle Down the Wind (1961)
Character: The Vicar
When an injured wife-murderer takes refuge on a remote Lancashire farm, the farmer’s three children mistakenly believe him to be the Second Coming of Christ.
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Doctor Who: Spearhead from Space (1970)
Character: Major General Scobie
The New Doctor arrives on Earth in the middle of a freak meteor shower. Faceless killer shop window dummies are coming to life and killing anything that comes into their path while Facsimiles are replacing top Military, Political and Civil leaders. The Nestene has come to invade the Earth. The convalescent Doctor teams up with Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart and Dr. Elizabeth Shaw of UNIT to thwart the Nestine's plans even as the invasion begins.
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Sky West and Crooked (1966)
Character: Bill Slim - grave digger
A young, lonely, emotionally challenged teenage girl finds solace in burying dead animals after the sudden traumatic death of a childhood friend 10 years earlier.
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Liar! (1969)
Character: Dr. Lanning
The positronic brain of robot RB-34 (Herbie) has an unforeseen 'extra': he can read human thoughts. So his take on the First Law of Robotics is unorthodox: he tells human beings only what he believes will not hurt their feelings. Can renowned robopsychologist Dr. Susan Calvin 'fix' RB-34? Or are there areas of her own psyche where she would rather not hear the truth?
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The Pied Piper (1972)
Character: Papal Nuncio
Greed, corruption, ignorance, and disease. Midsummer, 1349: the Black Death reaches northern Germany. Minstrels go to Hamelin for the Mayor's daughter's wedding to the Baron's son. He wants her dowry to pay his army while his father taxes the people to build a cathedral he thinks will save his soul. A local apothecary who's a Jew seeks a treatment for the plague; the priests charge him with witchcraft. One of the minstrels, who has soothed the Mayor's daughter with his music, promises to rid the town of rats for the fee. The Mayor agrees, then renigs. In the morning, the plague, the Jew's trial, and the Piper's revenge come at once.
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The Wrong Box (1966)
Character: Derek Lloyd Peter Digby
In Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other—or can be made to have seemed to do so.
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The Comedy Man (1964)
Character: Burial Minister
A middle-aged stock actor goes to London to try the big time. After much frustration, he lands a job doing TV commercials, gaining wealth and recognition. He eventually gives it all up to return to stage work and keep his pride.
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