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Bernard Spear is a Actor born on 11 september 1919

Bernard Spear

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Birth 11 september 1919
Death 9 may 2003 (at 83 years)

Bernard Spear (11 September 1919 – 9 May 2003) was an English actor.

He was born to a Polish father and Russian mother, and served with the Royal Artillery in Gibraltar during World War II.

Spear starred in the BAFTA TV Award-winning television play Bar Mitzvah Boy, and also played the dual roles of Cervantes's manservant and Sancho Panza in the 1968 London stage version of Man of La Mancha. His film career includes roles in the films Drop Dead Darling (1966), Bedazzled (1967), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968), The Adventures of Barry McKenzie (1972), Hide and Seek (1972), Wombling Free (1977) and Yentl (1983).

Spear and his wife Mary had one child, Julian, a director of TurnerSpear Ltd (an independent promotion company for television and radio), who is married to the actress Carol Royle.

Usually with

Ken Hughes
Ken Hughes
(2 films)
Alan Hume
Alan Hume
(2 films)
Dudley Moore
Dudley Moore
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Bernard Spear (10 films)

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Actor

The Man Who Cried, 1h40
Directed by Sally Potter
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about religion, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Christina Ricci, Cate Blanchett, Johnny Depp, John Turturro, Iva Bittová, Harry Dean Stanton
Roles Man in Sweatshop
Rating60% 3.0499853.0499853.0499853.0499853.049985
Fegele Abramovich (Christina Ricci), a Russian Jew is separated from her father (Oleg Yankovsky) as a child in 1927. Her father has travelled to America to seek his fortune and plans to send for Fegele and her grandmother. Before leaving, he sings "Je Crois Entendre Encore" from the Bizet opera Les pêcheurs de perles to her. After her father leaves, the village is attacked and burned in a pogrom. Fegele escapes with the help of neighbours; after many obstacles, she is crowded onto a boat headed for Britain, with only a photo of her father and a coin given to her by her grandmother.
Yentl
Yentl (1983)
, 2h12
Directed by Barbra Streisand
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Feminist films, Films about music and musicians, Films about religion, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, Musical films, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism, Films based on plays, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film
Actors Mandy Patinkin, Barbra Streisand, Amy Irving, Nehemiah Persoff, Steven Hill, Doreen Mantle
Roles Tailor
Rating65% 3.2996853.2996853.2996853.2996853.299685
Barbra Streisand portrays Yentl Mendel, a girl living in an Ashkenazi shtetl named Pechev in Poland in the early 20th century. Yentl's father, Rebbe Mendel (Nehemiah Persoff), secretly instructs her in the Talmud despite the proscription of such study by women according to the custom of her community.
Gulliver's Travels, 1h17
Directed by Peter Hunt
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Animation
Actors Richard Harris, Catherine Schell, Norman Shelley, Rod Taylor, Meredith Edwards, Michael Bates
Roles (voice)
Rating54% 2.7098252.7098252.7098252.7098252.709825
Malgré une brillante carrière de chirurgien qui l'attend, Gulliver décide d'écouter son cœur et quitte sa famille et l'Angleterre, pour sillonner les mers à la découverte d'autres cultures. Durant son voyage, son navire est emporté par une terrible tempête. Seul rescapé, il échoue sur la plage d'une île habitée par un petit peuple aux grandes ambitions...
Wombling Free, 1h36
Directed by Lionel Jeffries
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Musical
Themes Musical films, Children's films
Actors David Tomlinson, Jon Pertwee, Frances de la Tour, Bonnie Langford, David Jason, Bernard Spear
Roles Arnold Takahashi
Rating49% 2.4804552.4804552.4804552.4804552.480455
Based on the popular BBC children’s series, this film charts the adventures of the Wombles, a colony of small litter-picking creatures who live on Wimbledon Common. Only seen by those who believe in them, their work goes largely unnoticed until a young girl, Kim, spots them and their worthwhile purpose. As she invites them to her birthday party, her mother is forced to believe as she comes face to face with Orinoco, Tobermory and the rest. A public meeting is set to prove to the local population that the Wombles do exist and should be aided in their anti-rubbish campaign. But on the day in question, a storm breaks out over the Common.
The Adventures of Barry McKenzie, 1h54
Directed by Bruce Beresford
Genres Comedy
Actors Barry Crocker, Peter Cook, Barry Humphries, Spike Milligan, Dennis Price, Christopher Malcolm
Roles Cabbie
Rating56% 2.800432.800432.800432.800432.80043
Barry 'Bazza' McKenzie (Barry Crocker) travels to England with his aunt Edna Everage (Barry Humphries) to advance his cultural education. Bazza is a young Aussie fond of beer, Bondi and beautiful 'sheilas'. He settles in Earls Court, where his old friend Curly (Paul Bertram) has a flat. He gets drunk, is ripped off, insulted by pretentious Englishmen and exploited by record producers, religious charlatans and a BBC television producer (Peter Cook). He reluctantly leaves England under the orders of his aunt, after exposing himself on television. His final words on the plane home are, "I was just starting to like the Poms!".
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, 2h24
Directed by Ken Hughes, Brian W. Cook
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Musical theatre, Fantasy, Adventure, Musical
Themes Monde imaginaire, Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Aviation films, Musical films, Road movies, Children's films
Actors Dick Van Dyke, Sally Ann Howes, Adrian Hall, Lionel Jeffries, Gert Fröbe, Anna Quayle
Roles Second Spy
Rating68% 3.449233.449233.449233.449233.44923
Set in the 1910s, the story opens with a montage of European Grand Prix races in which a particular car appears to win every race. In the final race, the car swerves to avoid a girl and a dog, loses control, crashes, and catches fire, bringing its racing career to an end. The car ends up in an old garage in rural England, where two children, Jeremy and Jemima Potts, have grown fond of it. They are told by a junkman that he intends to buy the car from the garage owner for scrap. The children (who live with their widowed father Caractacus Potts, an eccentric inventor, and his equally peculiar father) implore their father to buy the car before the junkman does, but he does not have the money. While playing truant, they meet Truly Scrumptious, a beautiful upper class woman with her own motorcar. She brings them home to report their truancy to their father. Truly shows interest in Caractacus' odd inventions, but he is affronted by her insistence that his children should be in school.
Bedazzled
Bedazzled (1967)
, 1h43
Directed by Stanley Donen
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Films about religion, Demons in film
Actors Peter Cook, Eleanor Bron, Raquel Welch, Dudley Moore, Robert Russell, Valentine Dyall
Roles Irving Moses
Rating67% 3.3950953.3950953.3950953.3950953.395095
Stanley Moon (Moore) is a dissatisfied introverted young man who works in a Wimpy's restaurant and admires, from afar, the waitress Margaret (Eleanor Bron). Despairing of his unrequited infatuation, he is in the process of an incompetent suicide attempt, when he is interrupted by the Devil, incarnated as George Spiggott (Cook). Spiggott is in a contest with God, trying to be the first to gather 100 billion souls. If he achieves this first, he will be readmitted to Heaven.
Daleks' Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D., 1h21
Directed by Gordon Flemyng
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Adventure
Themes Time travel films, Films set in the future, Films about extraterrestrial life, Films about extraterrestrial life, Alien invasions in films, Robot films, Disaster films
Actors Peter Cushing, Bernard Cribbins, Ray Brooks, Andrew Keir, Roberta Tovey, Jill Curzon
Roles Man with Carrier bag
Rating59% 2.952752.952752.952752.952752.95275
Tom Campbell, a London Special Constable, is on patrol near a jewellery shop. Men are burgling the shop and Tom is struck down by their getaway driver before he can stop them. Running to what appears to be a police box to call for backup, Tom enters TARDIS, a time machine operated by its pilot, Dr. Who, with his niece Louise and his granddaughter Susan.
Arrivederci, Baby!
Directed by Ken Hughes
Genres Comedy, Crime
Actors Tony Curtis, Rosanna Schiaffino, Lionel Jeffries, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Nancy Kwan, Fenella Fielding
Roles French Inspector
Rating55% 2.759342.759342.759342.759342.75934
A man goes around marrying wealthy women, and then murdering them. However, his third wife has married him with similar intentions.