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Guy Rolfe is a Actor British born on 27 december 1911 at London (United-kingdom)
Guy Rolfe (27 December 1911 – 19 October 2003) was an English actor who specialised in playing villains.
He was born Edwin Arthur Rolfe. Rolfe was a professional boxer and racing driver before turning to acting at the age of 24.
He made his screen debut in 1937 with an uncredited appearance in Knight Without Armour. Notable roles include: Prince John in Ivanhoe (1952), Ned Seymour in Young Bess (1953), Caiaphas in King of Kings (1961), and Prince Grigory in Taras Bulba (1962). He is perhaps best remembered for his role as Andre Toulon in the Puppet Master film series, appearing in the third, fourth, fifth and seventh films, with archive footage in the eighth.
His television credits include The Saint, The Avengers, The Champions, Department S, The Troubleshooters, Space: 1999, Secret Army and Kessler.
He is buried in Benhall's St Mary's churchyard.
Durant sa carrière, il joue également au théâtre.
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Birth name Edwin Arthur Rolfe
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 27 december 1911 at London (United-kingdom)
Death 19 october 2003 (at 91 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 27 december 1911 at London (United-kingdom)
Death 19 october 2003 (at 91 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
He was born Edwin Arthur Rolfe. Rolfe was a professional boxer and racing driver before turning to acting at the age of 24.
He made his screen debut in 1937 with an uncredited appearance in Knight Without Armour. Notable roles include: Prince John in Ivanhoe (1952), Ned Seymour in Young Bess (1953), Caiaphas in King of Kings (1961), and Prince Grigory in Taras Bulba (1962). He is perhaps best remembered for his role as Andre Toulon in the Puppet Master film series, appearing in the third, fourth, fifth and seventh films, with archive footage in the eighth.
His television credits include The Saint, The Avengers, The Champions, Department S, The Troubleshooters, Space: 1999, Secret Army and Kessler.
He is buried in Benhall's St Mary's churchyard.
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Il apparaît au cinéma de 1937 à 1999 et à la télévision, dans des téléfilms et séries, de 1957 à 1988.Durant sa carrière, il joue également au théâtre.
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Puppet Master: The Legacy (2003)
, 1h13Directed by Charles Band
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Jeu, Films about toys
Actors Ian Abercrombie, Stephen Blackehart, Gordon Currie, Chandra West, Jack Donner, Michelle Bauer
Roles Andre Toulon (archive footage)
Rating30%
The film begins with a rogue agent, Maclain (Kate Orsini), in one of the rooms in the Bodega Bay Inn, reading Toulon's diary, hoping to find some secret to the formula. The diary bursts into flames. As Maclain enters the basement, she finds a man named Eric Weiss (Jacob Witkin) talking to the last Toulon puppets: Blade, Pinhead, Jester, Tunneler, and Six Shooter. Eric explains that he knew Toulon before he died, and that he swore he wouldn't pass it to anyone else. Maclain threatens Eric with a gun. Eric then takes out a tape recorder, and plays a recording that Toulon left him.
Retro Puppet Master (1999)
, 1h35Directed by David DeCoteau
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Action, Horror
Themes Films set in Africa, Jeu, Films about toys
Actors Greg Sestero, Jack Donner, Stephen Blackehart, Guy Rolfe
Roles Older Andre Toulon
Rating39%
The movie begins in 1944, Switzerland, taking place after the events of Puppet Master III: Toulon's Revenge. (In contrast to Puppet Master 1 establishing that Toulon committed suicide in 1939, and should've been 1938.) Toulon and his little friends are still on the run, and decide to hide in the Kolewige, an inn that's 4 miles from the Swiss border. Blade finds the wooden head of an old puppet named Cyclops in their trunk, and when Toulon sees it, he then tells his puppets the adventures with the woman he loves, and his retro puppets, starting in Cairo, Egypt, in 1902.
Puppet Master 5 (1994)
, 1h22Directed by Jeff Burr
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Jeu, Films about toys
Actors Guy Rolfe, Gordon Currie, Chandra West, Ian Ogilvy, Teresa Hill, Nicholas Guest
Roles Andre Toulon
Rating50%
Following the events of Puppet Master 4, Rick Myers has been arrested under the suspicion of having caused the murders of Dr. Piper and Baker, but Dr. Jennings, the new director of the Artificial Intelligence research project and Rick's temporary superior, gets him out on bail. Blade has been confiscated, but he escapes from the police department's evidence room and jumps into Susie's purse as she comes to fetch Rick. Lauren lies comatose in the hospital following the events in the inn. Meanwhile, in the underworld, Sutekh decides to take matters into his own hands and infuses his life essence into his own Totem figure.
Puppet Master 4 (1993)
, 1h19Directed by Jeff Burr
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Jeu, Films about toys
Actors Gordon Currie, Chandra West, Ash Adams, Teresa Hill, Felton Perry, Guy Rolfe
Roles Toulon
Rating52%
In the underworld of Hell, the demon lord, named Sutekh, sends forth a trio of diminutive servants called the Totems, magically controlled by his netherworld minions, to kill those who possess the secret of animation, including the magic Andre Toulon used to give his puppets life. It transpires also that a team of researchers working on the development of artificial intelligence are close to discovering Toulon's secret. Sutekh sends one of the Totems as a package to two of the researchers involved, Dr. Piper and Dr. Baker of the Phoenix Division, who are taken by surprise, killed and stripped of their souls by the foul creature.
Puppet Master III (1992)
, 1h26Directed by David DeCoteau
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Action, Horror
Themes Jeu, Zombie films, Films about toys, Political films
Actors Guy Rolfe, Sarah Douglas, Walter Gotell, Irene Miracle, Ian Abercrombie, Aron Eisenberg
Roles Andre Toulon
Rating60%
The film is set during 1941 (in contrast to Puppet Master 1 establishing that Toulon committed suicide in 1939, and should've been 1938) in World War II Berlin. A scientist named Dr. Hess is forced by the Nazis, especially his Gestapo liaison Major Kraus, to create a drug capable of animating corpses to use as living shields on the battlefield after losing too many on the Eastern Front. But, Dr. Hess cannot get it right: While the corpses do reanimate, they have a tendency towards mindless violence. In a small theater downtown, Andre Toulon has set up a politically satirical puppet show for children, starring a six-armed American Old West puppet named Six Shooter, who attacks an inanimate reconstruction puppet of Adolf Hitler. The show is, next to a crowd of children, also attended by Lt. Erich Stein, Kraus' driver. After the performance, Toulon and his wife Elsa feed the puppets with the formula which sustains their life force, but they are watched by Stein, who informs his superior the next morning. Hess, genuinely fascinated by the formula, wants Toulon to freely share the secret with him, but Kraus wants to take Toulon in for treason.
Dolls (1987)
, 1h18Directed by Stuart Gordon
Origin USA
Genres Fantasy, Horror
Themes Jeu, Serial killer films, Films about toys
Actors Guy Rolfe, Ian Patrick Williams, Hilary Mason, Carolyn Purdy, Bunty Bailey, Cassie Stuart
Roles Gabriel Hartwicke
Rating63%
A violent thunderstorm strands six people in the gothic English countryside including little Judy, who's traveling with her distant, uncaring father, David Bower, and her callous, arrogant stepmother Rosemary. They are accompanied by an amiable, mild-mannered businessman Ralph, who has given a ride to Isabel and Enid, two British punk rock girls who are hitchhiking. They all wind up at a mansion inhabited by Gabriel and Hilary Hartwicke, a kindly elderly people who appear to be toy makers; their house literally abounds with dolls, puppets, and other beautifully detailed toys. They give Judy a new doll, Mr. Punch, after she had been forced to give up her old teddy bear by her cruel stepmother before they arrived at the house. The Hartwickes invite the stranded travelers to join them for dinner and stay as guests until the storm ends.
The Bride (1985)
, 1h54Directed by Franc Roddam
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Themes Films about computing, Films based on science fiction novels, Frankenstein films, Cyberpunk films
Actors Sting, Jennifer Beals, Clancy Brown, Geraldine Page, Anthony Higgins, David Rappaport
Roles Count
Rating54%
The film begins with Baron Charles Frankenstein (Sting), his monster (Clancy Brown), Dr. Zalhus (Quentin Crisp), and his assistant Paulus (Timothy Spall) creating a female mate named Eva (Jennifer Beals) for the monster. Eva is physically identical to a human and lacking the deformities of the monster. As such, she is revolted by the monster and rejects him. This causes the monster to fly into a rage and destroy Frankenstein's laboratory. Frankenstein, believing himself and Eva to be the only survivors, flees with her back to Castle Frankenstein. He tells everyone, including Eva, that she was an amnesiac he found in the woods. There he decides to take Eva for himself and pursues the goal of making her a perfect human mate.
The Case of Marcel Duchamp (1984)
Genres Drama, Documentary
Actors Guy Rolfe, Harold Innocent, Bernard Kay, Jonathan Newth, Jeff Rawle
Roles Sherlock Holmes
Rating69%
Bloodline (1979)
, 1h52Directed by Terence Young
Origin German
Genres Thriller, Crime
Actors Audrey Hepburn, Ben Gazzara, James Mason, Irène Papas, Claudia Mori, Michelle Phillips
Roles Tod Michaels
Rating46%
Sam Roffe, President of Roffe & Sons Pharmaceuticals, dies in what appears to be a climbing accident, leaving his daughter Elizabeth (Audrey Hepburn) a billion-dollar empire. Roffe's board members see an opportunity to settle old scores, jockey for higher position, and reap lucrative profits. However, an investigation into Sam's death discloses that it was a murder and that a power struggle is going on within the company.
, 1h31Directed by Roy Ward Baker
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Peter Cushing, Herbert Lom, Patrick Magee, Stephanie Beacham, Ian Ogilvy, Geoffrey Whitehead
Roles Maitland
Rating59%
In 1795, two newlyweds move into the stately mansion of the husband, Charles Fengriffen (Ogilvy). The bride, Catherine Fengriffen (Beacham), falls victim to a curse placed by a wronged servant on the Fengriffen family and its descendants.
Nicholas and Alexandra (1971)
, 3h9Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Biography, Historical, Romance
Themes Politique, Political films, Films about capital punishment, Films about royalty
Actors Michael Jayston, Janet Suzman, Roderic Noble, Ania Marson, Lynne Frederick, Candace Glendenning
Roles Dr. Fedorov
Rating71%
The story begins with the birth of Tsarevich Alexei on 12 August 1904 during the Russo-Japanese War. Tsar Nicholas (Michael Jayston) is warned by the Prime Minister Count Witte (Laurence Olivier) and his uncle Grand Duke Nicholas (Harry Andrews) that the war is futile and costing too many lives. They tell him the Russian people want representative government, health care, voting and workers' rights, but Nicholas wants to maintain the autocracy. Meanwhile, underground political parties led by Vladimir Lenin (Michael Bryant), Joseph Stalin (James Hazeldine) and Leon Trotsky (Brian Cox) have formed.
Land Raiders (1969)
, 1h41Directed by Nathan Juran
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Western
Actors Telly Savalas, Arlene Dahl, George Maharis, Paul Picerni, George Coulouris, Janet Landgard
Roles Major Tanner
Rating53%
Vince Carden's hatred for Indians has caused an estrangement from his brother Paul and disappointment from wife Martha. A wagon train joined by Paul is attacked by braves in retaliation for a raid by Vince, and the only survivor besides Paul is a woman, Kate Mayfield, returning home from her education back East.
The Alphabet Murders (1965)
, 1h30Directed by Frank Tashlin
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Comedy thriller, Crime
Actors Tony Randall, Anita Ekberg, Robert Morley, Maurice Denham, Sheila Allen, Drewe Henley
Roles Duncan Doncaster
Rating53%
Albert Aachen, a clown with a unique diving act, is found dead, the murder weapon a poison dart. When a woman named Betty Barnard becomes the next victim, detective Hercule Poirot suspects that Sir Carmichael Clarke could be in grave danger.
The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)
, 3h8Directed by Anthony Mann
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Historical, Peplum
Themes Films set in Africa, Political films
Actors Sophia Loren, Stephen Boyd, Alec Guinness, James Mason, Christopher Plummer, Mel Ferrer
Roles Marius (uncredited)
Rating66%
In the winter of 180 A.D., the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius (Guinness) fights to keep Germanic barbarians from invading his northern territories on the Danube frontier. His deputies are the Greek ex-slave Timonides (Mason), a closet Christian, and the stern and honest general Gaius Livius (Boyd). Livius has close connections with the imperial family, being the lover of Aurelius' philosopher daughter Lucilla (Loren) and a friend of her brother Commodus (Plummer). Nevertheless, he is amazed to hear that Aurelius wants to make him his heir. Despite his military obligations the emperor has egalitarian ideals, dreaming of a day when Rome grants equal rights to men of all nations. He knows that he will not live to achieve this end, and trusts Livius to do so more than his charismatic but brutal son. The discovery that his father has effectively disinherited him hurts Commodus immensely, and damages the almost brotherly relationship he had enjoyed with Livius.
Taras Bulba (1962)
, 2h2Directed by J. Lee Thompson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure, Historical, Romance
Actors Yul Brynner, Tony Curtis, Sam Wanamaker, Perry Lopez, Brad Dexter, George Macready
Roles Prince Grigory
Rating62%
The film opens in the 16th century, when Russia and Eastern Europe were divided into small sections and principalities that fought each other or against one enemy: in this case, Turkey. It starts with a battle raging between the Turks and the Poles. The Poles are losing until the Cossacks arrive to save the day. However, it turns out that the Poles were merely holding back so that they could treacherously attack the Cossacks after they won the battle for them. As a result, the Poles become masters of Ukraine and the Cossacks are subjugated. Taras Bulba, one of the Cossack officers, returns home to raise his family but now it is under Polish dominion.