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Hugh McDermott is a Actor born on 20 march 1908

Hugh McDermott

Hugh McDermott
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Birth 20 march 1908
Death 29 january 1972 (at 63 years)

Hugh McDermott (20 March 1908 – 29 January 1972) was a British professional golfer turned actor who made a number of film, stage and television appearances between 1936 and 1972. He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1908, and was educated in Davidson's Mains. Initially an instructor at The Royal Burgess Golfing Society of Edinburgh, he later toured South and Central America and won the Central America Open and later helped design a course in Guatemala.

A trip to the United States kindled his interest in the film industry, and he made his screen debut in Well Done, Henry and followed it up with an appearance as HM Stanley in David Livingstone. He made his final appearance in Chato's Land on film, and in The Amorous Prawn on stage in Edinburgh.

Best films

The Seventh Veil (1945)
(Actor)

Usually with

Herbert Lom
Herbert Lom
(4 films)
Marcel Varnel
Marcel Varnel
(3 films)
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Filmography of Hugh McDermott (30 films)

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Actor

Chato's Land, 1h40
Directed by Michael Winner
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure, Western
Actors Charles Bronson, Jack Palance, Richard Basehart, James Whitmore, Simon Oakland, Richard Jordan
Roles Bartender
Rating65% 3.2982653.2982653.2982653.2982653.298265
The film opens as the half-Apache Chato orders a drink at a bar. The bartender ignores him and serves the local sheriff who has arrived after Chato. The sheriff calls Chato a "redskin" and tells him the bar is for whites only. He moves behind Chato while hurling a stream of abuse at him. The sheriff's taunts escalate, and he draws his gun while saying that he is going to kill Chato. Chato whirls around and shoots the sheriff in the gut, killing him. He rides out of town on his Appaloosa.
Lawman
Lawman (1971)
, 1h39
Directed by Lee J. Cobb, Robert Duvall, Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Michael Winner
Origin USA
Genres Action, Western
Actors Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Lee J. Cobb, Robert Duvall, John Beck, Sheree North
Roles L.G. Moss
Rating69% 3.495163.495163.495163.495163.49516
The film starts with a scene common to many Westerns, cowboys in a drunken state shooting up a town and wreaking havoc. The rowdies are from the town of Sabbath and are visiting the town of Bannock for a little recreation that gets out of hand.
Captain Apache, 1h34
Directed by Alexander Singer
Genres Action, Western
Actors Lee Van Cleef, Carroll Baker, Stuart Whitman, Percy Herbert, Tony Vogel, Dan van Husen
Rating47% 2.358472.358472.358472.358472.35847
Lee Van Cleef stars as Captain Apache, a Native American US army officer on the case of solving the last words of a dead Commissioner, “April morning”. Each time he nears discovering the meaning of the phrase, a character dies and throws him off the trail. The journey eventually takes the captain to a train, one which pulls a private rail road car named “April Morning”, transporting President Ulysses S. Grant. Putting the information together leads the Captain to the realizing an assassination is about to take place and he is the only one who can prevent it.
The Adding Machine, 1h40
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Milo O'Shea, Phyllis Diller, Billie Whitelaw, Sydney Chaplin, Raymond Huntley, Julian Glover
Roles Harry
Rating60% 3.048493.048493.048493.048493.04849
An accountant whose job is about to be taken over by a comptometer (a primitive adding machine) starts to re-examine his life and his priorities.
The File of the Golden Goose, 1h49
Directed by Sam Wanamaker
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Yul Brynner, Edward Woodward, Charles Gray, Adrienne Corri, John Barrie, Bernard Archard
Roles Ray Moss
Rating55% 2.756652.756652.756652.756652.75665
A trail of counterfeit hundred dollar bills has been discovered in several places around the world. When this comes to the attention of the Secret Service, they assign one of their top men, Pete Novak (Yul Brynner), to the case of finding out who is producing and distributing them.
First Men in the Moon, 1h43
Directed by Ray Harryhausen, Nathan Juran
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Adventure
Themes Space adventure films, Sur la Lune, Films based on science fiction novels, Alternate history films, Space opera, Sur la Lune, Films about extraterrestrial life
Actors Lionel Jeffries, Edward Judd, Martha Hyer, Miles Malleson, Norman Bird, Hugh McDermott
Roles Richard Challis, UN Space Agency
Rating64% 3.2477053.2477053.2477053.2477053.247705
In 1964, the United Nations (UN) has launched a rocket flight to the Moon. A multi-national group of astronauts in the UN spacecraft land on the Moon, believing themselves to be the first lunar explorers. They discover a British Union Jack on the surface and a note naming Katherine Callender, claiming the Moon for Queen Victoria. Attempting to trace Callender, UN authorities find she has died, but find her husband Arnold Bedford now an old man in an old people's home. The nursing home staff do not let him watch television reports of the expedition because, according to the matron, it "excites him", dismissing his claims to have been on the Moon as insane delusion. The UN representatives question him about the Moon and he tells them his story. The rest of the film, as a flashback, shows what Bedford and Professor Cavor did in the 1890s.
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
Directed by Herbert Wilcox
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Anna Neagle, Anthony Quayle, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Katherine Kath, Dora Bryan, Patrick Allen
Roles Bernie
Rating62% 3.14123.14123.14123.14123.1412
A courtroom drama, it sees an American scientist charged for murder by the British police for his supposed role in the death of an Eastern Bloc defector.
As Long as They're Happy, 1h31
Directed by J. Lee Thompson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Théâtre, Musical films, Films based on plays
Actors Jack Buchanan, Janette Scott, Norman Wisdom, Jeannie Carson, Brenda De Banzie, Susan Stephen
Roles Barnaby Brady
Rating52% 2.635252.635252.635252.635252.63525
The film is about an US singer named Bobby Denver, who is known as the "Crying Crooner" (a la Johnnie Ray), who stays with a stockbroker's family by mistake when he comes to England. The stockbroker, played by Jack Buchanan, has three very pretty daughters with the youngest Gwen (played by Janette Scott) madly in love with him so much she wants to marry him. Eventually, the stodgy stockbroker deals with his wife and daughter as well as his maid Linda (played by Joan Sims, who keeps fainting every time Bobby sings) being so infatuated.
Devil Girl from Mars, 1h16
Directed by David MacDonald
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Themes Space adventure films, Mars in film, Films about extraterrestrial life, Martiens, Space opera, Films about extraterrestrial life, Robot films
Actors Patricia Laffan, Hugh McDermott, Adrienne Corri, Hazel Court, Joseph Tomelty, John Laurie
Roles Michael Carter
Rating49% 2.4580352.4580352.4580352.4580352.458035
Nyah, a female alien commander from Mars, dressed in shiny black vinyl, heads for London in her flying saucer. She is part of the advanced alien team that is looking for Earth men to replace the dying male population on her world. Because of damage to her saucer, caused by entering Earth's atmosphere and then colliding with an aircraft, she is forced to land her damaged flying saucer in the remote Scottish moors, near a local village. She is armed with a raygun that can paralyze or kill, and she also has a tall, menacing robot named Chani.
The Love Lottery, 1h29
Directed by Charles Crichton
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors David Niven, Herbert Lom, Peggy Cummins, Anne Vernon, Charles Victor, Gordon Jackson
Roles Rodney Wheeler
Rating54% 2.703892.703892.703892.703892.70389
A celluloid heart-throb, who is haunted by dreams and hounded by fans, is coerced into taking part in a lottery to find a wife.
Trent's Last Case, 1h30
Directed by Herbert Wilcox
Origin United-kingdom
Actors Michael Wilding, Margaret Lockwood, Orson Welles, John McCallum, Miles Malleson, Hugh McDermott
Roles Calvin C. Bunner
Rating59% 2.9993552.9993552.9993552.9993552.999355
A major international financier is found dead at his Hampshire home. The Record newspaper assigns its leading investigative reporter, Phillip Trent, to the case. In spite of the police cordon, he manages to gain entry to the house by posing as a relative. While there he manages to pick up some of the background to the case from Inspector Murch, the Irish detective leading the investigation. Despite Murch's suggestion that the death is suicide, Trent quickly becomes convinced that it was in fact murder.
Four Days
Four Days (1951)
, 55minutes
Directed by John Guillermin
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Hugh McDermott, Kathleen Byron, Gordon McLeod, John Harvey, Petra Davies
Roles Francis Templar
Rating57% 2.8761752.8761752.8761752.8761752.876175