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Francis Matthews is a Actor and Director British born on 2 september 1927 at York (United-kingdom)
Francis Matthews (2 September 1927 – 14 June 2014) was an English film and television actor, best known for playing Paul Temple in the BBC TV series and Captain Scarlet from Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons.
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Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 2 september 1927 at York (United-kingdom)
Death 14 june 2014 (at 86 years)
Birth 2 september 1927 at York (United-kingdom)
Death 14 june 2014 (at 86 years)
Biography
Matthews was married to the actress Angela Browne from 1963 until her death in 2001. Two of their three sons, Damien Matthews and Paul Rattigan, are actors; the other, Dominic, is an artist and musician. Matthews' younger brother, Paul Shelley, is also an actor.Usually with
Filmography of Francis Matthews (28 films)
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Do Not Disturb (1999)
, 1h34Directed by Dick Maas
Origin Pays-bas
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about disabilities, Personne sourde ou muette
Actors William Hurt, Jennifer Tilly, Denis Leary, Michael Chiklis, David Gwillim, Francis Matthews
Roles Cornelius Beaumont
Rating49%
Président d'une société pharmaceutique, Walter Richmond est en voyage d'affaires à Amsterdam pour signer un important contrat. Il est accompagné de son épouse Cathryn et de leur petite fille de dix ans, Melissa. Muette, elle est toujours accompagnée d'une petite ardoise magique autour de son cou pour communiquer avec autrui. Alors qu'ils s'installent dans un palace pour y séjourner, ils remarquent que le bâtiment est en pleine effervescence car une rock star est de passage dans la capitale néerlandaise. Dans la confusion, Melissa se perd dans les couloirs de l'hôtel et assiste, par hasard, à un meurtre. La victime n'est d'autre que l'avocat d'un client hollandais de son père. Repérée par les assassins, Melissa s'enfuit et cache en ville auprès d'un SDF. Mais les meurtriers sont prêts à tout pour l'éliminer.
Roman Holiday (1987)
, 1h40Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Political films, Films about royalty
Actors Catherine Oxenberg, Tom Conti, Ed Begley Jr., Eileen Atkins, Patrick Allen, Francis Matthews
Roles Ambassador
Rating50%
Directed by Robert Lynn
Genres Science fiction, Action
Themes Space adventure films, Films about music and musicians, Sur la Lune, Mars in film, Films set in the future, Musical films, Space opera
Actors Francis Matthews, Gary Files, Bud Tingwell, Jeremy Wilkin, Martin King, Paul Maxwell
Roles Captain Scarlet (voice) (archive footage)
Rating44%
An attempt to survey the Mysterons' planet, Mars, with a space probe is threatened when a scientist attached to the project is killed and duplicated by the Mysterons ("Shadow of Fear").
, 1h30Directed by David Lane
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes Space adventure films, Mars in film, Films set in the future, Space opera
Actors Francis Matthews, Ed Bishop, Donald Gray, Gary Files, Bud Tingwell, Jeremy Wilkin
Roles Captain Scarlet (voice) (archive footage)
Rating73%
War erupts between Earth and Mars after a manned mission to the Red Planet results in an attack on the city of the Mysterons. The World President is threatened with assassination but ultimately saved from a Mysteron reconstruction of Spectrum's top agent, Captain Scarlet, which is released from Mysteron control and re-enters Earth's service ("The Mysterons"). However, the Mysterons successfully assassinate the Director General of the United Asian Republic ("Winged Assassin").
Five Women for the Killer (1974)
Genres Thriller, Horror, Crime
Actors Francis Matthews, Howard Ross, Pascale Rivault, La Cicciolina, Katia Christine, Maria Cumani Quasimodo
Roles Giorgio Pisani
Rating56%
Giorgio Pisani, journaliste italien en reportage à Beyrouth, est obligé de rentrer à Pise pour l’accouchement de sa femme, Erika. Hélas, celle-ci meurt en mettant au monde leur fils, qui lui même ne survit pas. Comme si cela ne suffisait pas, il apprend de plus, par hasard, qu'il n'est pas le père de l'enfant puisqu'il est stérile . Peu de temps après, 3 femmes sont retrouvées assassinées. Toutes étaient enceintes. C’est ensuite Alba, la maîtresse du journaliste, qui est la prochaine cible du tueur.
Crossplot (1969)
, 1h36Directed by Alvin Rakoff
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Action
Actors Roger Moore, Claudie Lange, Alexis Kanner, Martha Hyer, Bernard Lee, Derek Francis
Roles Ruddock
Rating54%
Roger Moore is Gary Fenn, a talent scout for a London modeling agency who finds the perfect target and calculates the events which mean that only one girl will be good enough for his bosses, a Hungarian Marla Kugash (Lange). He finds her among the anti-war movement in the bohemian depths of swinging London. She is in the company of a young man, Tarquin, who is extremely protective of her and overtly aggressive to Fenn.
Taste of Excitement (1969)
Directed by Don Sharp
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors David Buck, Peter Vaughan, Paul Hubschmid, Sophie Hardy, Kay Walsh, Francis Matthews
Roles Mr. Breese
Rating54%
A series of attempts are made on the life of a young woman.
Just Like a Woman (1967)
, 1h29Directed by Robert Fuest
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Wendy Craig, Francis Matthews, John Wood, Dennis Price, Miriam Karlin, Peter Jones
Roles Lewis McKenzie
Rating53%
Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966)
, 1h30Directed by Terence Fisher
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Fantastic, Horror
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Dracula films, Vampires in film
Actors Christopher Lee, Barbara Shelley, Francis Matthews, Bud Tingwell, Peter Cushing, Suzan Farmer
Roles Charles Kent
Rating66%
A prologue replays the final scenes from Dracula, in which Dr. Van Helsing (Peter Cushing) destroys Dracula (Christopher Lee) by driving him into the sunlight. These scenes are accompanied by voice-over narration that describes how Van Helsing, a scholar of vampirism, was able to end Dracula's century-long reign of terror and destroy his cult; only the memory of Dracula's evil remains.
Rasputin: The Mad Monk (1966)
, 1h31Directed by Don Sharp
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Biography, Horror
Actors Christopher Lee, Barbara Shelley, Francis Matthews, Richard Pasco, Suzan Farmer, Dinsdale Landen
Roles Ivan
Rating61%
The story begins in the Russian countryside, where Rasputin heals the sick wife of an innkeeper (Derek Francis). When he is later hauled before an Orthodox bishop for his sexual immorality and violence, the innkeeper springs to the monk's defense. Rasputin protests that he is sexually immoral because he likes to give God "sins worth forgiving" (loosely based on Rasputin's rumored connection to Khlysty, an obscure Christian sect which believed that those deliberately committing fornication, then repenting bitterly, would be closer to God). He also claims to have healing powers in his hands, and is unperturbed by the bishop's accusation that his power comes from Satan.
That Riviera Touch (1966)
, 1h38Directed by Cliff Owen
Genres Comedy
Actors Eric Morecambe, Ernie Wise, Suzanne Lloyd, Armand Mestral, George Pastell, Alexandra Bastedo
Roles Hotel Manager
Rating58%
After Eric Simpson (Eric Morecambe) nearly gives the Queen a parking ticket, he and Ernest Clark (Ernie Wise) decide to take a holiday in the South of France. However, when they arrive there, they become unwittingly involved in a jewel theft when the thief Le Pirate (Paul Stassino) decides to use them to smuggle some precious jewels out of the country. He sends the two Englishmen to a sinister villa and sends the beautiful Claudette (Suzanne Lloyd), a member of his criminal gang, to keep Eric and Ernie occupied while he carries out the various stages of his plan. Confusion ensues however, as the two battle for the affections of Claudette and Eric accidentally wins a large sum of money at a casino. Eventually Eric and Ernie start to get suspicious and begin to investigate.
The Intelligence Men (1965)
, 1h44Directed by Robert Asher
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Action, Spy
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Eric Morecambe, Ernie Wise, William Leo Franklyn, Gloria Paul, Marianne Stone, Richard Vernon
Roles Thomas
Rating59%
Eric (Eric Morecambe) is happily serving espresso in his London coffee bar when a strange-looking man (Tutte Lemkow) tries to persuade him to remember a tune as a clue to some evil plot. Unfortunately, Eric is tone-deaf. Ernie Sage (Ernie Wise) enters the coffee bar and Eric tries to get him to identify the tune, without much success. Eventually Sage realises that this could be something to do with a forthcoming visit by a Russian trade delegation and an assassination attempt by an organisation known as "Schlecht" to sabotage this mission.
Murder Ahoy (1964)
, 1h33Directed by George Pollock
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy thriller, Crime
Actors Margaret Rutherford, Stringer Davis, Lionel Jeffries, Bud Tingwell, Derek Nimmo, Joan Benham
Roles Lt. Compton
Rating69%
The action takes place mainly on board an old wooden-walled battleship, HMS Battledore, which has been purchased by a Trust for the rehabilitation of young criminals, and intended by the founder to put backbone into young jellyfish.
The Beauty Jungle (1964)
, 1h50Directed by Val Guest
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Ian Hendry, Janette Scott, Edmund Purdom, Ronald Fraser, Jean Claudio, Kay Walsh
Roles Taylor
Rating59%
While on a seaside holiday a young typist is persuaded by a local journalist to enter a beauty contest. When she wins, she decides to give up her previous career and life and take up entering the contests full-time.
Nine Hours to Rama (1963)
, 2h4Directed by Mark Robson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical, Crime
Themes Children's films
Actors Horst Buchholz, José Ferrer, Robert Morley, Diane Baker, Valerie Gearon, Harry Andrews
Rating63%
The film is a fictional narrative set in the nine hours in the life of Nathuram Godse (Horst Buchholz) that lead up to his assassination of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (J.S. Casshyap). As he prepares for the shooting at Gandhi's residence, flashbacks recall Godse's hostility to Muslims, his adherence to a militant Hindu group that hatches the plot to kill Gandhi, and his involvement with a married woman Rani (Valerie Gearon) and a prostitute Sheila (Diane Baker). Meanwhile, a police officer Supt. Gopal Das (Jose Ferrer) is attempting to find the killer before it is too late.