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Alister Williamson is a Actor Australien born on 17 june 1918 at Sydney (Australie)
Alister Williamson (17 June 1918 - 19 May 1999) was an Australian-born character actor, who appeared in many British films and television series of the 1960s and 1970s. A big, craggy-faced man, he would usually be found playing gruff police inspectors or henchmen in adventure series and police dramas of the period. He was also notable as a supporting player in a number of classic British horror films.
He would typically be found in television series such as Adam Adamant Lives!, The Avengers, Paul Temple, Police Surgeon, Public Eye, The Saint, Softly, Softly, Special Branch, The Third Man and Z-Cars. He also made appearances in many popular sitcoms of the period, such as Please Sir!, Dad's Army, The Galton and Simpson Playhouse, George and Mildred, The Likely Lads, Man About the House and That's My Boy.
In films he often appeared in the horror genre, either as policemen or landlords for companies such as Hammer Studios, Amicus and AIP throughout the 1960s and early 1970s. His credits include The Curse of the Werewolf (1961), The Evil of Frankenstein (1963), The Gorgon (1964) and The Deadly Bees (1966). In 1969 he appeared in Gordon Hessler's The Oblong Box, in which he would have his only leading role opposite stars Vincent Price and Christopher Lee. In a part originally earmarked for Price, he played the disfigured Sir Edward Markham, acting underneath a red velvet hood until the film's climatic unmasking. Unfortunately his voice was deemed unsuitable and he was redubbed for the film's release, after which it was back to a supporting role in his next horror film, The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971).
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Birth name Duncan Mcfarlane Williamson
Nationality Australie
Birth 17 june 1918 at Sydney (Australie)
Death 19 may 1999 (at 80 years) at Slough (United-kingdom)
Nationality Australie
Birth 17 june 1918 at Sydney (Australie)
Death 19 may 1999 (at 80 years) at Slough (United-kingdom)
He would typically be found in television series such as Adam Adamant Lives!, The Avengers, Paul Temple, Police Surgeon, Public Eye, The Saint, Softly, Softly, Special Branch, The Third Man and Z-Cars. He also made appearances in many popular sitcoms of the period, such as Please Sir!, Dad's Army, The Galton and Simpson Playhouse, George and Mildred, The Likely Lads, Man About the House and That's My Boy.
In films he often appeared in the horror genre, either as policemen or landlords for companies such as Hammer Studios, Amicus and AIP throughout the 1960s and early 1970s. His credits include The Curse of the Werewolf (1961), The Evil of Frankenstein (1963), The Gorgon (1964) and The Deadly Bees (1966). In 1969 he appeared in Gordon Hessler's The Oblong Box, in which he would have his only leading role opposite stars Vincent Price and Christopher Lee. In a part originally earmarked for Price, he played the disfigured Sir Edward Markham, acting underneath a red velvet hood until the film's climatic unmasking. Unfortunately his voice was deemed unsuitable and he was redubbed for the film's release, after which it was back to a supporting role in his next horror film, The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971).
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Barry McKenzie Holds His Own (1974)
, 1h33Directed by Bruce Beresford
Genres Comedy
Actors Barry Crocker, Donald Pleasence, Barry Humphries, Ed Devereaux, Roy Kinnear, Frank Windsor
Rating55%
The film continues directly where The Adventures of Barry McKenzie ended with Barry McKenzie (Barry Crocker) and his aunt Dame Edna returning home to Australia from England.
The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)
, 1h34Directed by Robert Fuest
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Horror comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about religion, Serial killer films, Zombie films, Films based on the Bible, Films about Jews and Judaism, Comedy horror films
Actors Vincent Price, Joseph Cotten, Terry-Thomas, Peter Jeffrey, Virginia North, John Gilmore
Roles 1st Policeman
Rating69%
Dr. Anton Phibes (Vincent Price) was an expert in theology and music who was supposedly killed in a car crash in 1921, shortly after the death of his beloved wife, Victoria, during an operation. However, he survived the crash, horribly scarred by the accident and left unable to speak, forcing him to remake his face with prosthetics and use his knowledge of acoustics to regain his voice. Resurfacing in 1925, Phibes believes that his wife died a victim of incompetent doctors, and begins elaborate plans to kill them.
The Oblong Box (1969)
, 1h31Directed by Gordon Hessler
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Horror
Actors Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Rupert Davies, Sally Geeson, Alister Williamson, Uta Levka
Roles Sir Edward Markham
Rating58%
The film takes place in England in 1865. Having been grotesquely disfigured in an African voodoo ceremony for a transgression against the native populace, Sir Edward Markham (Alister Williamson) is kept locked in his room by his guilt-ridden brother, Julian (Vincent Price). Tiring of his captivity, Sir Edward plots to escape by faking his death. With the help of the crooked family lawyer, Trench (Peter Arne), they hire witchdoctor N'Galo (Harry Baird) to concoct a drug to put Sir Edward into a deathlike trance. Before Trench has time to act, Julian finds his "dead" brother and puts him in a coffin (the title's "oblong box"). Embarrassed by his brother's appearance, Julian asks Trench to find a proxy body for Sir Edward's lying in state. Trench and N'Galo murder landlord Tom Hacket (Maxwell Shaw) and offer his corpse to Julian. After the wake, Trench and his young companion Norton (Carl Rigg), dispose of Hacket's body in a nearby river, while Julian has Sir Edward buried. Now free of his brother, Julian marries his young fiancée, Elizabeth (Hilary Dwyer), while Trench, Norton and N'Galo go their separate ways.
The Last Shot You Hear (1969)
, 1h30Directed by Gordon Hessler
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Hugh Marlowe, John Nettleton, Alister Williamson, Patricia Haines, John Wentworth (professional name), Thorley Walters
Roles CID Man
Rating52%
The Deadly Bees (1966)
, 1h23Directed by Freddie Francis
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Films about music and musicians, Natural horror films, Films about insects, Musical films
Actors Suzanna Leigh, Guy Doleman, Frank Finlay, John Harvey, Michael Ripper, Tim Barrett
Rating42%
The film opens with two men from an unnamed ministry commenting a spate of letters from a beekeeper claiming to have developed a strain of killer bees. They dismiss him as a lunatic, though his letters claim he will start killing people if he is not taken seriously.
The Return of Mr. Moto (1965)
, 1h11Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Henry Silva, Terence Longdon, Suzanne Lloyd, Martin Wyldeck, Marne Maitland, Brian Coburn
Rating48%
Mr. Moto is brought in by British intelligence to assist in their investigation of a plot to drive a major oil company out of business.
Man in the Middle (1964)
, 1h34Directed by Guy Hamilton
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War
Actors Robert Mitchum, France Nuyen, Barry Sullivan, Trevor Howard, Keenan Wynn, Sam Wanamaker
Rating65%
In the midst of World War II, Lieut. Col. Barney Adams’s superiors call on him to defend troubled US army Lieutenant Winston who has confessed to murdering a British non-commissioned officer. Military court officials want the cleanest possible trial for the lieutenant. They believe that Liet. Col. Adams, a war hero and distinguished lawyer, is the best man for the job. But when Adams begins to investigate the murder, he finds that this seemingly open-and-shut case is actually much more complicated. Before long he is absorbed in a dramatic struggle for a fair trial against the most overwhelming odds.
Crooks in Cloisters (1964)
, 1h38Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Ronald Fraser, Barbara Windsor, Corin Redgrave, Bernard Cribbins, Francesca Annis, Grégoire Aslan
Roles Superintendent Mungo
Rating54%
After pulling off a small train robbery, 'Little Walter' and his gang are forced to hide out on a remote Cornish island in an abandoned monastery, disguised as monks. With them comes 'Bikini' (Barbara Windsor), Walter's girlfriend, who is given the job of cook to the group, despite never having cooked in her life. After a few initial setbacks, they slowly adjust to their new contemplative life of tending animals and crops, surviving the added tribulations of visits by a group of tourists and two of the real monks who had been forced to sell the monastery after falling on hard times, including Brother Lucius (Corin Redgrave).
The Gorgon (1964)
, 1h23Directed by Terence Fisher
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Fantastic, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Films based on mythology, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology
Actors Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Richard Pasco, Barbara Shelley, Michael Goodliffe, Patrick Troughton
Roles Janus Cass
Rating63%
The year is 1910. In the rural German village of Vandorf, seven murders have been committed within the past five years, each victim having been petrified into a stone figure. Rather than investigate it, the local authorities dismiss the murders for fear of a local legend having come true. When a local girl becomes the latest victim and her suicidal lover made the scapegoat, the father of the condemned man decides to investigate and discovers that the cause of the petrifying deaths is a phantom. The very last of the snake-haired Gorgon sisters haunts the local castle and turns victims to stone during the full moon.
The Brain (1962)
, 1h24Directed by Freddie Francis
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Horror, Crime
Actors Anne Heywood, Peter van Eyck, Cecil Parker, Bernard Lee, Jeremy Spenser, Janette Scott
Roles Inspector Pike
Rating52%
The Pot Carriers (1962)
, 1h24Directed by Peter Graham Scott
Genres Comedy
Themes Prison films
Actors Ronald Fraser, Carole Lesley, Dennis Price, Paul Rogers, Eddie Byrne, Campbell Singer
Roles Escorting Prison Officer
Rating64%
The Curse of the Werewolf (1961)
, 1h21Directed by Terence Fisher
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Fantastic, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Themes Films about animals, Films about magic and magicians, Wolves in film, Werewolves in film, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Clifford Evans, Oliver Reed, Yvonne Romain, Desmond Llewelyn, Anthony Dawson, Michael Ripper
Rating64%
The story is set in 18th Century Spain. A beggar is imprisoned by a cruel marques after making inappropriate remarks at the nobleman's wedding. The beggar is forgotten, and survives another fifteen years. His sole human contact is with the jailer and his beautiful mute daughter (Yvonne Romain). The aging, decrepit Marques makes advances on the jailer's daughter while she is cleaning his room. When she refuses him, the Marques has her thrown into the dungeon with the beggar. The beggar, driven mad by his long confinement, rapes her and then dies.
, 1h29Directed by Karel Reisz
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about the labor movement
Actors Albert Finney, Shirley Anne Field, Rachel Roberts, Hylda Baker, Norman Rossington, Peter Madden
Roles Policeman
Rating74%
Arthur Seaton is a young machinist at a Nottingham factory. He is determined not to be tied down to living a life of domestic drudgery like the people around him, including his parents, whom he describes as "dead from the neck up". He spends his wages at weekends on drinking and having a good time.
Hell Is a City (1960)
, 1h38Directed by Val Guest
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Crime
Actors Stanley Baker, John Crawford, Donald Pleasence, Maxine Audley, Billie Whitelaw, Joseph Tomelty
Roles Sam
Rating69%
Committed but seen-it-all police inspector Martineau rightly guesses that after a violent jailbreak a local criminal will head home to Manchester to pick up the spoils from his last job. Martineau is soon investigating a murder during a street robbery which seems to lead back to the same villain. Concentrating on the case and using his local contacts to try to track the gang down, he is aware he is not keeping his own personal life together as well as he might.
The Sundowners (1960)
, 2h13Directed by Fred Zinnemann
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, Peter Ustinov, Glynis Johns, Dina Merrill, Bryan Pringle
Roles Shearer (uncredited)
Rating70%
Irish-Australian Paddy Carmody (Robert Mitchum) is a sheep drover and shearer, roving the sparsely-populated back country with his wife Ida (Deborah Kerr) and son Sean (Michael Anderson, Jr.). They are sundowners, constantly moving, pitching their tent whenever the sun goes down. Ida and Sean want to settle down, but Paddy has wanderlust and never wants to stay in one place for long. While passing through the bush the family meet refined Englishman Rupert Venneker (Peter Ustinov) and hire him to help drive a large herd of sheep to the town of Cawndilla. Along the way, they survive a dangerous brush fire.