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The Bird, the Bear and the Actress (1959)
Character: Harris Glass
A group discover a famous designer and their entrepreneur sees this as a chance to have his name associated with their new production. The leading lady is outraged at the way they intend to exploit the old man.
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The Workshop (1982)
Character: Leon
It is 1945 - just a year since the allied troops entered Paris - and Simone arrives for her first day of work at M. Leon's tailoring workshop.
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Passing Through (1982)
Character: Arthur
Is Richard the pub bore, or is he someone very intriguing? Arthur is a man of habit - four pints a night and home by 7.0, but tonight it's past 11.0 before he leaves the pub.
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Eagle in a Cage (1972)
Character: Cipriani
1815. A soldier becomes the governor of St. Helena and jailer of Napoleon
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Incident in Judaea (1991)
Character: N/A
An adaptation of the biblical sections of the novel The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov.
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Five to One (1963)
Character: Larry Hart
Alan Roper tells Bookie Larry Hart that he is planning to steal £60,000 and Hart offers to launder the money for him. What Hart doesn't know is that it is actually his money Roper intends to steal.
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Sakharov (1984)
Character: Slavsky
Biography of Russian physicist & dissident Andrei Sakharov focuses on his first acts in his civil rights.
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No Visible Scar (1981)
Character: Interrogator
A wounded member of a rebel terrorist organisation is tended by an English nurse. She is imprisoned, interrogated, then released to face another form of interrogation.
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The Best Pair of Legs in the Business (1973)
Character: Charlie Green
Capitalising on his remarkable success in On the Buses, Reg Varney took on the contrasting role of a third-rate holiday camp entertainer dreaming of stardom in this mid-seventies comedy feature. Also starring fellow sitcom favourite Diana Coupland and Lee Montague, The Best Pair of Legs in the Business was adapted from an individual ITV Playhouse drama and scripted by Emmerdale Farm creator Kevin Laffan. 'Sherry' Sheridan, a middle-aged compère and drag artiste currently stationed at a caravan site, is low on talent but high on ambition. Convinced he just needs one decent break to launch himself into the big time, he's relentlessly optimistic - but sadly unaware that his family life is crumbling around him. Can Sherry manage to secure both his job, and his marriage?
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Thank You, Comrades (1978)
Character: Lunacharsky
TV play by Jim Hawkins based on real events in Russia and the USA just after the Bolshevik Revolution.
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A Tap on the Shoulder (1965)
Character: Archibald Cooper
Ken's Loach's first production for The Wednesday Play is a story of a group of criminals planning a robbery, with the unwitting aid of a wealthy, well-connected society acquaintance. But who is the greater villain?
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Countdown to War (1989)
Character: Hore-Belisha
Based on a play, the story details the dramatic negotiations between UK, France, Poland, Nazi-Germany and USSR from the day Czechoslovakia fell, until Britain's declaration of war on Germany caused by Hitler's invasion of Poland.
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Billy Budd (1962)
Character: Squeak, Mr. Claggart's assistant
Billy is an innocent, naive seaman in the British Navy in 1797. When the ship's sadistic master-at-arms is murdered, Billy is accused and tried.
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Regan (1974)
Character: Arthur Dale
Rough, tough and politically incorrect in the way that only the best 70's dramas can be, Regan was a pilot film for The Sweeney - one of the major television successes of the last fifty years. Featuring John Thaw as the irascible Detective Inspector Regan and Dennis Waterman as his loyal 'oppo' Detective Sergeant Carter, Regan was an immediate critical and ratings hit, resulting in four series of The Sweeney and two successful feature films. Jack Regan is a good copper, but his tough, intuitive style is becoming unfashionable in a Scotland Yard seeking a new image. When a policeman is mysteriously murdered, Regan breaks all the rules to find the killer - but he finds there are men in the Flying Squad prepared to break him.
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Another Sky (1954)
Character: Michael
After a puritan youth, a young English woman discovers her sensuality in North-Africa.
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Prisoners in Space (2025)
Character: Dorzak
A desperate call for help as the residents of Moonbase Alpha are hurled into an interplanetary power struggle. As tensions rise, disaster strikes when a routine mission becomes a nightmare...
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The Spy Killer (1969)
Character: Igor
Spy Killer stars Robert Horton as a secret agent turned private eye. Framed for murder, Horton is released, but only after promising that he'll track down a book containing a list of government agents who are operating covertly in Red China. The reluctant spy discovers that he can't completely trust anyone in this endeavor--not even his former chief
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Pope John Paul II (1984)
Character: Marshall Konev
Bio-drama tracing the life and career of Polish cardinal Karol Wojtyla from his days as a young activist in Poland to his rise and installation in 1978 as Pope of the Catholic world.
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Foxhole in Cairo (1960)
Character: Aberle
A German spy in Cairo must report back to Rommel with information on British positions.
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Brass Target (1978)
Character: Lucky Luciano
General George S. Patton died in a car accident in 1945. But was his death actually a murder. Is he targeted by Nazis angered by Germany's defeat? Or by Russians who knew that Patton had argued in favor of invading the Soviet Union towards the end of the war? Or is it because Patton is investigating the theft of a quarter of a billion dollars of Nazi gold? Or is it because his subordinate Colonels - the flamboyantly gay Colonel and his worried lover are fearful that he is getting too close to discovering the truth.
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Moulin Rouge (1952)
Character: Maurice Joyant
In 1890 Paris, Moulin Rouge is a nightclub where crippled artist Toulouse-Lautrec feels like he fits in. In the following years, he meets two women who provide an opportunity for him to find true love.
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The Secret of Blood Island (1964)
Character: Levy
Based on the true story of a British secret agent, shot down over Malaya near to a Allied POW forced labour camp. There she is hidden, disguised as a youthful prisoner, until her escape can be effected. The costs of keeping her identity secret fall on all the POW's as the Japanese embark on a policy of ruthless terror to extract her and the focus shifts to the conflicts of the group' s collective concerns against the necessities of personal survival.
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The Male Animal (1968)
Character: Joe Ferguson
The trustees of Midwestern University have forced three teachers out of their jobs for being suspected communists. Trustee Ed Keller has also threatened mild mannered English Professor Tommy Turner, because he plans to read a controversial piece of prose in class. Lost episode of BBC Play of the Month.
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Nobody Runs Forever (1968)
Character: Denzil
Detective Scobie Malone accepts a mission to fly to London to arrest Sir James Quentin, a high-level commissioner wanted down under for murder. But when Malone arrives, he finds that the amiable Quentin is not only the key in groundbreaking peace negotiations, but also the target of an assassin himself.
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Blind Date (1959)
Character: Sgt. Farrow
Painter Jan Van Rooyer has been art teacher to Jacqueline Cousteau, an older Frenchwoman who becomes his lover. But when she turns up dead, Van Rooyer must explain their relationship to the police to clear his name.
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You Must Be Joking (1965)
Character: Staff Sergeant Mansfield
A motley group of soldiers are set loose on swinging England in an initiative test to collect a selection of esoteric items.
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The Camp on Blood Island (1958)
Character: Japanese Soldier
Set in a Japanese prisoner of war camp during World War II, the film focuses on the brutality and horror that the allied prisoners were exposed to as the Japanese metered out subjugation and punishment to a disgraced and defeated enemy. This harrowing drama concentrates on the deviations of legal and moral definitions when two opposing cultures clash. Although fictional, this was one of the earliest films to deal realistically with life and death in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp during the Second War.
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Heart of a Child (1958)
Character: 2nd Soldier
A young boy goes to desperate lengths to save the family dog when his father agrees sell it to the local butcher.
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The Horse Without a Head (1964)
Character: Mallart
Five pampered French children with their wheeled, headless, toy horse accidentally become tangled up in a plot to rob the Dijon- Paris express of 100,000,000. They foil the robbery when a thief stashes the key to his hiding place inside 'The Horse Without A Head'.
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Madame Sousatzka (1988)
Character: Vincent Pick
In London, eccentric piano instructor Madame Sousatzka takes on a new prize protégé, Manek, a teenage Bengali immigrant who displays incredible talent. Manek forms a close bond with his teacher, but soon discovers that she expects her pupils to become disciplined in all areas of life, and not just behind the piano. As he struggles to meet the challenges, Manek must also deal with his mother, who vies with his teacher for his attention.
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The London Connection (1979)
Character: Vorg
A missing formula, a defecting Eastern European scientist kidnapped, car chases, foot chases, air chases, the British secret service, and a couple of American tourists caught right in the middle.
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How I Won the War (1967)
Character: Transom
An inept British WWII commander leads his troops to a series of misadventures in North Africa and Europe.
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Silver Dream Racer (1980)
Character: Jack Freeman
Nick Freeman is a motorcycle racer who, following the death of his brother, inherits a revolutionary prototype motorcycle, and is determined to race it at the British Grand Prix at Silverstone.
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The Legacy (1978)
Character: Jacques Grandier
A couple attempts to unravel a sinister plot within the English countryside estate of a dying man who has gathered an eclectic and notable group of house guests.
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If You Go Down in the Woods Today (1981)
Character: Guvnor
A Boy Scout troupe led by their scoutmaster (Sykes) is on a field trip to a seemingly-peaceful English woodland. However, the woods are actually teeming with strange characters, some of whom turn out to be disguised police officers and others criminals. The police are searching for £2,000,000 in stolen banknotes and hope that the criminals will lead them to them. The criminals, on the other hand, are aware that the police are looking for them and doing their best to avoid betraying the location of their stash.
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The Secret Partner (1961)
Character: D.I. Tom Henderson
A shipping tycoon with a record becomes a suspect when money goes missing from the company vault.
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Kim (1984)
Character: Kozelski
A friendly street kid in India, during the last years of the nineteenth century, looks and considers himself Indian, but is in fact a Brit. The Brits discover his true origin, and train him as a spy.
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The Secret Place (1957)
Character: Jeweller (uncredited)
A beautiful redhead becomes involved with a group of small-time hoodlums who plan and perform a daring diamond robbery.
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Jekyll & Hyde (1990)
Character: Inspector Palmer
Henry Jekyll is a troubled man. His wife died of pneumonia. He wants his sister-in-law, but her father forbids any contact. And his experiments into the dual nature of man have yielded a personality-splitting drug that he has tested on himself, changing him into an uninhibited brute who seeks violent and undignified pleasures. Jekyll quickly becomes addicted to the sordid freedom induced by the drug. He can commit the most enjoyably revolting deeds, then return to his laboratory and use an antidote to change back to his original form, so that his lofty persona remains untarnished.
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Mahler (1974)
Character: Bernhard Mahler
Famed composer Gustav Mahler reflects on the tragedies of his life and failing marriage while traveling by train.
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Red Monarch (1983)
Character: Lee
British comedy satirising Stalin's inner circle as an absolute monarchs court. In the face of rampant abuse of power and poisonous distrust some still manage to keep faith with the Bolshevist creed until the very end. In front of the firing squad a stalwart bolshevist of the first hour exclaims: "Even in the best democracy errors are being made!"
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Fratello sole, sorella luna (1972)
Character: Pietro Di Bernardone
In his delirium from his return from war, Francesco Bernardone goes back in his memories to the days when he lived for parties and carnal pleasures. He slowly recovers, but after the illness he is no longer the Francesco that everybody knew. Instead of spending hours in taverns, he meditates on the beauty of God's creatures, soon renouncing his riches and his family with plans to rebuild an abandoned church and his life.
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Deadlier Than the Male (1967)
Character: Boxer
British agent Bulldog Drummond is assigned to stop a master criminal who uses beautiful women to do his killings.
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The Savage Innocents (1960)
Character: Ittimargnek
An Eskimo who has had little contact with white men goes to a trading post where he accidentally kills a missionary and finds himself being pursued by the police.
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Much Ado About Nothing (1984)
Character: Leonato
Benedick and Beatrice fight their merry war of words. But when Beatrice's friend, Hero, is humiliatingly jilted by Benedick's best friend, Claudio, Benedick has to choose which side he's on. But unknown to all, Claudio's been tricked by the bastard Don John, and (unfortunately), it's up to Dogberry and Verges to solve the case.
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The Silent Enemy (1958)
Character: Miguel's Mate
The Mediterranean, 1941/42 - Axis forces are using frogmen and manned torpedoes to attack previously impregnable harbours. The Allied forces need to come up with something to answer this threat, which they find in the form of Lt. Lionel "Buster" Crabb.
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The Truth About Women (1957)
Character: Coachman (uncredited)
A man recalls his relationships with the women he loved as he tries to help another man try to understand them as well.
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