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Harry Landis (born 25 November 1931) is a British actor. He has had a long career in British television and film and is known for playing cockney-Jewish roles.
He began acting with London's politically minded Unity Theatre. In 1956 Landis had an important supporting role as a Cockney soldier in A Hill in Korea. Michael Caine, who made an unnoticed screen debut in the film, recalled in his autobiography that great things were expected of Landis at the time, but didn't materialise.
Indeed, Landis' other film roles have been pretty minor, as in Dunkirk (1958), Doctor in Distress (uncredited, 1963), The Informers (uncredited, 1963), Private Potter (1962), Operation Bullshine (1959) and Ransom (1975) with Sean Connery.
However Landis kept active in other media, returning to the Unity Theatre to help out the largely amateur casts, and occasionally directing there, such as a well-praised late '60s production of Death of a Salesman. On television he appeared in Dixon of Dock Green (1955-1976), The Avengers (1964), The Indian Tales of Rudyard Kipling (1964), The Long Street (1965), The Saint (1966), Locate and Destroy (1966), Irish-Greek, Man In a Suitcase (1967), Jason King (1971), Angels (1975), Z-Cars (1968-1974) and Law and Order (1978). He also appeared in one of Jeremy Brett's last appearances as Sherlock Holmes in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1994) among many others.
More characteristically, he was cast in Jack Rosenthal's one-man show Bar Mitzvah Boy (BBC, 1976); played one of Arthur Daley's crooked cronies in Minder (1982), and has had roles in Bergerac (1987); Howards' Way (1985); You Rang, M'Lord? (1990) and Jeeves and Wooster (1991).
He is more recently remembered as being a regular in the BBC soap opera EastEnders (1995-1997) where he played the friendly barber, Felix Kawalski, but Felix was killed off in 2005, off-screen. He continues to act and has made recent appearances in the ITV police drama The Bill (2003), Casualty (2004), BBC comedy My Family (2004) BBC hospital drama Holby City (2006) and most recently the Channel 4 sitcom Friday Night Dinner (2012).
Landis is credited as Old Man 3 in the 2014 film Edge of Tomorrow.
Landis was elected as President of Equity, the British actors' union, in July 2002.
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Harry Landis (born 25 November 1931) is a British actor. He has had a long career in British television and film and is known for playing cockney-Jewish roles.
He began acting with London's politically minded Unity Theatre. In 1956 Landis had an important supporting role as a Cockney soldier in A Hill in Korea. Michael Caine, who made an unnoticed screen debut in the film, recalled in his autobiography that great things were expected of Landis at the time, but didn't materialise.
Indeed, Landis' other film roles have been pretty minor, as in Dunkirk (1958), Doctor in Distress (uncredited, 1963), The Informers (uncredited, 1963), Private Potter (1962), Operation Bullshine (1959) and Ransom (1975) with Sean Connery.
However Landis kept active in other media, returning to the Unity Theatre to help out the largely amateur casts, and occasionally directing there, such as a well-praised late '60s production of Death of a Salesman. On television he appeared in Dixon of Dock Green (1955-1976), The Avengers (1964), The Indian Tales of Rudyard Kipling (1964), The Long Street (1965), The Saint (1966), Locate and Destroy (1966), Irish-Greek, Man In a Suitcase (1967), Jason King (1971), Angels (1975), Z-Cars (1968-1974) and Law and Order (1978). He also appeared in one of Jeremy Brett's last appearances as Sherlock Holmes in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1994) among many others.
More characteristically, he was cast in Jack Rosenthal's one-man show Bar Mitzvah Boy (BBC, 1976); played one of Arthur Daley's crooked cronies in Minder (1982), and has had roles in Bergerac (1987); Howards' Way (1985); You Rang, M'Lord? (1990) and Jeeves and Wooster (1991).
He is more recently remembered as being a regular in the BBC soap opera EastEnders (1995-1997) where he played the friendly barber, Felix Kawalski, but Felix was killed off in 2005, off-screen. He continues to act and has made recent appearances in the ITV police drama The Bill (2003), Casualty (2004), BBC comedy My Family (2004) BBC hospital drama Holby City (2006) and most recently the Channel 4 sitcom Friday Night Dinner (2012).
Landis is credited as Old Man 3 in the 2014 film Edge of Tomorrow.
Landis was elected as President of Equity, the British actors' union, in July 2002.
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Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
, 1h53Directed by Doug Liman
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Action
Themes Films about religion, Time travel films, Films based on science fiction novels, Films set in the future, Films about extraterrestrial life, Political films, Temporal paradox, Dystopian films, Films about extraterrestrial life, Alien invasions in films, Disaster films
Actors Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt, Bill Paxton, Jonas Armstrong, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Lara Pulver
Roles Old Man 3
Rating78%
A race of extraterrestrials called Mimics has taken over continental Europe. In England, General Brigham, head of humanity's United Defense Force, orders Major William Cage, a public affairs officer with no combat experience, to cover the next day's amphibious assault in France. Cage objects to the dangerous assignment and threatens to blackmail Brigham to avoid it. Brigham has Cage arrested; Cage is knocked out trying to escape. He wakes in handcuffs at a forward operating base at Heathrow Airport and discovers he has been demoted to private, charged with desertion, and assigned to a combat squad named "J" squad under the command of Master Sergeant Farell.
A Wall of Silence (1993)
, 1h47Genres Drama
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films, Films about Latin American military dictatorships
Actors Vanessa Redgrave, Ofelia Medina, Lautaro Murúa, Lorenzo Quinteros, Soledad Villamil, André Melançon
Roles Moishe Smelker
Rating65%
Kate (Redgrave) is a British film director on location in Argentina that traces the story of Silvia (Medina). Silvia has a dark past, stemming from the turbulent time when she endured her husband's forced disappearance during the Dirty War. Silvia wants to move on with her life and concentrate on her family. But she is eventually persuaded into reliving her painful past.
Edge of Sanity (1989)
, 1h27Directed by Gérard Kikoïne
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Serial killer films, Erotic thriller films
Actors Anthony Perkins, Glynis Barber, David Lodge, Ray Jewers, Briony McRoberts, Jill Melford
Roles Coroner
Rating53%
Dr. Henry Jekyll ingests a mix of ether and cocaine and goes insane. As the monstrous Edward "Jack the Ripper" Hyde, he murders a prostitute who resembles one that he previously met as a child. He begins a murder spree, using the mixture, originally meant to be an anesthetic, to influence prostitutes and the johns to torture and kill each other.
Ransom (1974)
, 1h29Directed by Casper Wrede
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Monde imaginaire, Films about terrorism, Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Sean Connery, Ian McShane, Isabel Dean, James Maxwell, William Fox, Colin Prockter
Roles Lookout Pilot
Rating56%
A small group of terrorists have seized the British ambassador to the fictitious country of "Scandinavia", and are holding him hostage in his residence. Scandinavia's head of security, Col. Nils Tahlvik (Sean Connery), wants to take an uncompromising position, but he is overruled by the governments of both Scandinavia and Britain, who insist that all of the terrorists' demands be met.
Go for a Take (1972)
Genres Comedy
Actors Johnny Briggs, John Clive, Julie Ege, Bill Fraser, Jack Haig, Melvyn Hayes
Roles Maurice
Rating45%
Doctor in Distress (1963)
, 1h42Directed by Ralph Thomas
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Medical-themed films
Actors Dirk Bogarde, James Robertson Justice, Samantha Eggar, Barbara Murray, Mylène Demongeot, Leo McKern
Roles Man in Cafe (uncredited)
Rating56%
Simon Sparrow, now a senior doctor at Hampden Cross Hospital, falls in love with Delia, a model and aspiring actress. They eventually move in together, but then she goes to Italy to try out for a film.
The Informers (1963)
, 1h45Directed by Ken Annakin
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Crime
Actors Nigel Patrick, Katherine Woodville, Colin Blakely, Derren Nesbitt, Harry Andrews, John Cowley
Roles Hicks (uncredited)
Rating68%
Filmed at Pinewood Studios and on location in London, the story concerns the somewhat uneasy relationship between a Scotland Yard Detective, Johnoe (Nigel Patrick) and the Squad Chief, Bestwick (Harry Andrews) over the use of paid informants. Despite orders not to use informants and to adopt more scientific principals of detection, Johnoe continues on until one of his informants is murdered. Immediately he finds himself in a frame for corruption and with few friends left on his own side of the law his only option is to enlist the help of the murdered man's brother (Colin Blakely).
Billy Liar (1963)
, 1h38Directed by John Schlesinger
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Fantasy, Romance
Actors Tom Courtenay, Julie Christie, Mona Washbourne, Finlay Currie, Leonard Rossiter, Gwendolyn Watts
Roles Man on Train (uncredited)
Rating71%
Billy Fisher (Tom Courtenay) lives in Yorkshire with his parents (Wilfred Pickles and Mona Washbourne) and grandmother (Ethel Griffies), and works as an undertakers' clerk overseen by the rigid Mr. Shadrack (Leonard Rossiter). Billy wishes to get away from his stifling job and family life. To escape the boredom of his humdrum existence, he constantly daydreams and fantasizes, often picturing himself as the ruler and military hero of an imaginary country called Ambrosia. He also makes up stories about himself and his family, causing him to be nicknamed "Billy Liar".
The Small World of Sammy Lee (1963)
Directed by Ken Hughes
Genres Drama
Actors Anthony Newley, Julia Foster, Robert Stephens, Wilfrid Brambell, Warren Mitchell, Miriam Karlin
Roles Lucky Dave's Clumsy Barman
Rating70%
The Longest Day (1962)
, 2h51Directed by Bernhard Wicki, Darryl F. Zanuck, Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, Gerd Oswald
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Historical
Themes Radio, Political films, Children's films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Patrick Barr, Richard Burton, Lyndon Brook, Robert Mitchum
Roles British Soldier (uncredited)
Rating76%
The movie is filmed in the style of a docudrama. Beginning in the days leading up to D-Day, it concentrates on events on both sides of the channel, such as the Allies waiting for the break in the poor weather and anticipating the reaction of the Axis forces defending northern France. The film pays particular attention to the decision by Gen. Eisenhower, supreme commander of SHAEF, to go after reviewing the initial bad-weather reports as well as reports about the divisions within the German High Command as to where an invasion might happen or what the response to it should be.
Private Potter (1962)
, 1h29Directed by Casper Wrede
Genres Drama
Actors Tom Courtenay, Mogens Wieth, Ronald Fraser, James Maxwell, Frank Finlay, Ralph Michael
Rating59%
The eponymous Private Potter is a soldier who claims that the reason he cried out leading to the death of a comrade was that he saw a vision of God. There is then a debate over whether he should be court-martialled.
Desert Mice (1959)
, 1h25Directed by Michael Leighton George Relph
Origin United-kingdom
Genres War, Comedy
Themes Films set in Africa, Military humor in film, Political films, Le désert, Guerre du désert
Actors Alfred Marks, Dora Bryan, Sid James, Reginald Beckwith, Irene Handl, Liz Fraser
Roles German Soldier
Rating53%
Un troupe de l'Entertainments National Service Association déjoue un plan nazi lors de sa tournée en Afrique du Nord.
Operation Bullshine (1959)
, 1h24Origin United-kingdom
Genres War, Comedy
Themes Military humor in film, Political films
Actors Donald Sinden, Barbara Murray, Carole Lesley, Ronald Shiner, Naunton Wayne, Dora Bryan
Roles Gunner Wilkinson
Rating56%
During World War II, a Royal Artillery officer is assigned to an anti-aircraft battery that is filled with female soldiers of the Auxiliary Territorial Service. His wife who has enlisted is mistakenly posted to the battery in violation of regulations of husbands and wives serving together in the same formation. She becomes jealous of what she perceives as his paying too much attention to the other Auxiliary Territorial Service women.
Dunkirk (1958)
, 2h14Directed by Leslie Norman
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Action, Historical
Themes Political films
Actors John Mills, Richard Attenborough, Bernard Lee, Robert Urquhart, Meredith Edwards, Bernard Cribbins
Roles Dr. Levy
Rating70%
The film relates the story of Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of surrounded British and French troops from the beaches of Dunkirk. It does so principally from the viewpoints of two people: a newspaper reporter and a soldier.
Further Up the Creek (1958)
, 1h31Directed by Val Guest
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Military humor in film
Actors David Tomlinson, Frankie Howerd, Shirley Eaton, Dame Thora Hird, Lionel Jeffries, Samuel John Kydd
Roles Webster
Rating56%
Navy frigate the "Aristotle" is sold to a Middle Eastern power, and against regulations the ship's bos'n tries to make a profit by selling tickets to passengers seeking a luxury cruise. When the Captain discovers what is going on, he attempts to straighten things out.