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Martin Miller is a Actor born on 2 september 1899 at Kroměříž (Republique tcheque)
Martin Miller, born Rudolph Muller (2 September 1899 – 26 August 1969) was a Czech character actor who played many small roles in British films and television series from the early 1940s until his death. He was best known for playing eccentric doctors, scientists and professors, although he played a wide range of small, obscure roles—including photographers, waiters, a pet store dealer, rabbis, a Dutch sailor and a Swiss tailor. On stage he was noted in particular for his parodies of Adolf Hitler and roles as Dr. Einstein in Arsenic and Old Lace and Mr. Paravinci in The Mousetrap.
Miller appeared in several notable films, including Squadron Leader X (1943), English Without Tears (1944), The Third Man (1949), The Gamma People (1956), Peeping Tom (1960), 55 Days at Peking (1963), The V.I.P.s (1963), The Pink Panther (1963), and The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964). His most substantial roles include George II of Great Britain in Bonnie Prince Charlie (1948) and Kublai Khan in the Doctor Who serial Marco Polo. In the 1960s, he appeared in several ITC Entertainment cult television programmes, including Ghost Squad, Danger Man, The Saint, The Avengers and The Prisoner.
1940s
It wasn't until 1943 that Miller had a major role in a major film, playing Mr. Krohn in Lance Comfort's World War II spy drama Squadron Leader X, alongside Beatrice Varley and Ann Dvorak. This role was quickly followed by his first of many roles as a doctor, playing Doctor Novotny in Harold S. Bucquet's spy film The Adventures of Tartu. In 1944, Comfort hired him again to appear in his picture Hotel Reserve, about a hunt for a spy in a hotel in southern France just before World War II. Based on a novel by Eric Ambler, the film saw Miller appear alongside James Mason, Lucie Mannheim and Raymond Lovell. He then had a small role as Schmidt in Harold French's romantic comedy English Without Tears (1944) alongside Michael Wilding, Margaret Rutherford and Penelope Dudley-Ward.
In 1945, he played a morgue keeper in Vernon Sewell's thriller Latin Quarter and in 1946 played Professor Hansen alongside Robert Newton, Raymond Lovell, Guy Middleton, Muriel Pavlow and Herbert Lom in Lawrence Huntington's Night Boat to Dublin and a postman in Maclean Rogers's Woman to Woman opposite Douglass Montgomery, Joyce Howard and Adele Dixon. The film, a romance drama, was based on the play Woman to Woman by Michael Morton.
In 1947 he starred as a professor in Vernon Sewell's comedy The Ghosts of Berkeley Square opposite Robert Morley and Felix Aylmer. The film is an adaptation of the novel No Nightingales by Caryl Brahms and S. J. Simon, inspired by the enduring reputation of the property at 50 Berkeley Square as "the most haunted house in London". That year he also portrayed Dr. Hans Tautz in Anthony Kimmins's drama Mine Own Executioner opposite Burgess Meredith, Dulcie Gray and Michael Shepley. The film was entered into the 1947 Cannes Film Festival.
In 1948 he portrayed a police inspector in Terence Young's One Night with You, alongside Nino Martini, Patricia Roc (and a young Christopher Lee with a minor role) an uncredited role as an Italian waiter at the Savoy Hotel in The Blind Goddess and a role as George II of England in Anthony Kimmins's biopic Bonnie Prince Charlie about the Jacobite Risings in a cast which included David Niven (as Charles II), Margaret Leighton, Judy Campbell, Jack Hawkins, Morland Graham and Finlay Currie. In 1949, he appeared as Tony the Cafe Proprietor in Lawrence Huntington's Man on the Run, a customer in Jack Warner's The Huggetts Abroad, Leon Stolz in Arthur Crabtree's Don't Ever Leave Me alongside Petula Clark, Jimmy Hanley, Hugh Sinclair, Edward Rigby, and Anthony Newley and had uncredited roles as black marketeer Herr Schindler in I Was a Male War Bride and as a headwaiter in The Third Man.
1950s
In 1951, Miller played a pawnbroker in the TV movie The Angel Who Pawned Her Harp, had an uncredited role as a photographer in Joseph M. Newman's I'll Get You for This, played a Dutch seaman in Paul L. Stein's Counterblast alongside Robert Beatty, Mervyn Johns and Nova Pilbeam and played the character of Carlo Penezii in the segment "Gigolo and Gigolette" of the anthology film Encore, a film which was entered into the 1952 Cannes Film Festival. In 1952, Miller played a rabbi in the TV series Portrait by Rembrandt and a photographer in Where's Charley?.
In 1953 he starred in Emeric Pressburger's Twice Upon a Time alongside Hugh Williams, Elizabeth Allan, Yolande Larthe and Charmaine Larthe and The Genie and between 1953 and 1954 he appeared in two episodes of Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Presents. In 1954, Miller portrayed Dr. Brukmann in Front Page Story, Professor Hyman Pfumbaum in You Know What Sailors Are, Dr. Fergus in Mad About Men and Brodcynsky in To Dorothy a Son. In 1955, Miller played Iggy Pulitzer in George More O'Ferrall's The Woman for Joe opposite Diane Cilento and George Baker, a pet dealer in the television movie Mother Michel and Her Cat, a Swiss tailor in John Paddy Carstairs's comedy Man of the Moment alongside Norman Wisdom, Belinda Lee, Lana Morris and Jerry Desmonde, and had an uncredited role as a Bandleader at an alligator rally in An Alligator Named Daisy.
A busy year, in 1956, Miller portrayed a hotelkeeper in the It Started in Paris episode of Sailor of Fortune, and as Chella in the Festival of Fear episode of The Adventures of Aggie. He had an uncredited role in Jay Lewis's comedy The Baby and the Battleship, starring John Mills, Richard Attenborough and André Morell, and played Professor Topolski in Child in the House and Lochner in John Gilling's science fiction picture The Gamma People alongside Paul Douglas, Eva Bartok and Leslie Phillips. In 1957 he played he starred in Hugo Fregonese's World War II picture Seven Thunders about two British escaped prisoners of war, opposite Stephen Boyd, James Robertson Justice and Kathleen Harrison. He also portrayed Papa Kolinsky in the A Penn'orth of Allsorts episode of Dixon of Dock Green.
In 1958 he played Brunet in Maclean Rogers's drama Mark of the Phoenix, alongside Julia Arnall, Sheldon Lawrence and Anton Diffring. He also appeared twice as Nat Danziger in ITV Play of the Week in 1955 and 1958, appeared in three episodes of the BBC's Sunday Night Theatre, one in 1956 and two in 1959. He also appeared in three episodes of ITV Television Playhouse, in 1956, 1959 and 1960, the first of which he had again portrayed a rabbi in the episode Skipper Next to God. In 1959, Miller had an uncredited role as Kakky in Expresso Bongo under the director's helm of Val Guest, starred as Hendricks in Violent Moment, and as a doctor in the TV film Henry IV, He played Dr. Schrott in Anthony Asquith's Libel, starring alongside Olivia de Havilland, Dirk Bogarde, Paul Massie, Wilfrid Hyde-White and Robert Morley. The film's screenplay was written by Anatole de Grunwald and Karl Tunberg from a 1935 play of the same name by Edward Wooll. He also made an appearance in the TV series Armchair Theatre in the episode Light from a Star.
1960s–death
In 1960, Miller portrayed Piggy in Robert Siodmak The Rough and the Smooth opposite Tony Britton, William Bendix and Edward Chapman, Dr. Pfeiffer in the episode Twentieth Century Theatre: The Price of Freedom of the BBC Sunday Night Play and starred as Dr. Rosen in the psychological horror thriller Peeping Tom, directed by Michael Powell. The film, which saw Miller star alongside Carl Boehm, Moira Shearer, Anna Massey and Maxine Audley revolves around a serial killer who murders women while using a portable movie camera with a spike to record their dying expressions of terror. It was a highly controversial subject with themes of child abuse, sadomasochism and fetishism and the extremely harsh reception by critics effectively destroyed the director's career as a director in the United Kingdom. However, it attracted a cult following, and in later years, it has been re-evaluated and is now considered a masterpiece. In 1960, Miller also portrayed Stravros in the episode The Lovers of the series Danger Man and Dr. Samuel Odenheim in Otto Preminger's war film Exodus opposite Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint, Ralph Richardson and Sal Mineo. In 1961 he made appearances in the television series Theatre 70 in the episode The Watchman of Saul and
as Hymie in Echo Four Two, in the episode There She Blows.
In 1962, Miller starred as Rossi in the Hammer Film Productions horror The Phantom of the Opera under the directorship of Terence Fisher, as Mr. Green in the episode Between the Balance Sheets of Dial RIX, as Dr. Steliz in the episode Blaze of Glory in Man of the World, as Papa Kadopolis in the episode The Marriage Broker of Zero One and as Braun
in the episode The Green Shoes of Ghost Squad.
In 1963, a particularly busy and high-status year, Miller featured as the man with the microscope in Ken Annakin's comedy The Fast Lady starring Stanley Baxter, James Robertson Justice, Leslie Phillips, Kathleen Harrison and Julie Christie, as Dr. Schroeder in Incident at Midnight, reprising this same character in the TV series The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre version and played Davidoff in the TV movie The Bergonzi Hand. He starred as Hugo Bergmann in the Samuel Bronston Productions-Allied Artists historical epic 55 Days at Peking, directed by Nicholas Ray and opposite Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, and David Niven. The film is a dramatization of the Battle of Peking during the Boxer Rebellion which took place in 1900 in China and received two Academy Award nominations for Dimitri Tiomkin (Best Song and Original Music Score). In 1963, Miller also appeared in another top picture, Anthony Asquith's The V.I.P.s in which he played Dr. Schwatzbacher in an all-star cast which included Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Louis Jourdan, Orson Welles and Margaret Rutherford, who won both the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and the Golden Globe in the same category for her performance in the film. The film was one of the biggest British MGM productions in years. According to the playwright Terence Rattigan, who wrote the screenplay, the film was based on the true story of Vivien Leigh's attempt to leave her husband Laurence Olivier and fly off with her lover Peter Finch, only to be delayed by a fog at Heathrow Airport. The team of director Asquith, producer Anatole de Grunwald and writer Rattigan were to produce another portmanteau film the following year entitled The Yellow Rolls-Royce, in which Miller also starred, albeit with a minor role as a head waiter. Again Miller was featured alongside prominent actors such as Rex Harrison, Jeanne Moreau, Ingrid Bergman, Shirley MacLaine and Omar Sharif. In 1963 he also played the photographer Pierre Luigi in the original Blake Edwards film The Pink Panther opposite Niven, Peter Sellars and Robert Wagner and all in the same year, he also starred as Mr. Smith in the TV series Espionage in the episode The Incurable One and Astolat in The Sentimental Agent in the episode A Little Sweetness and Light.
In 1964, Miller appeared as Professor Gruber in the science fiction horror picture Children of the Damned, had a stint playing Kublai Khan in two episodes of Doctor Who, Assassin at Peking and Mighty Kublai Khan, and also portrayed Dr. Zoren in the episode Fish on the Hook of Danger Man. He became an ITC productions regular from 1964 onwards, albeit with minor roles. He appeared in two episodes of The Saint, playing Jerome in the episode Jeannine (1964) and Mr. Justin in the episode The Smart Detective (1965) and played the role of Lazlo in two episodes of A Little Big Business in 1964 and 1965. In 1965 he portrayed Heinrich Miron in the The House of Bons Bons episode of The Third Man, had an uncredited role as Professor Spencer in The Avengers in the episode The Master Minds and had a role as Herman in the Christopher Miles comedy film Up Jumped a Swagman which also incidentally co-starred some ITC regulars such as Annette Andre and Ronald Radd.
In 1966, Miller appeared in the TV series Theatre 625 in the episode Focus, the The Baron in the episode Enemy of the State and as Dr. Heindrick in the series Adam Adamant Lives!, in the episode A Slight Case of Reincarnation. In 1967 he notably starred as Montross in The Forsyte Saga in the episode Portrait of Fleur and as a watchmaker in The Prisoner, in the episode It's Your Funeral. In 1969 he appeared in BBC Play of the Month, playing Professeur Vivier in the episode Maigret at Bay, the TV movie Mord nach der Oper, Dr. Israel Berg in the episode They Call Me Israel of the The Troubleshooters, Professor Pearson in the episode It's All Go... of Doctor in the House before making his last ever appearance portraying Dutrov in the series Department S.
He was booked for a role in The Last Valley, but while shooting on location in Innsbruck, died of a heart attack on 26 August 1969, aged 69.
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Birth name Rudolph Muller
Birth 2 september 1899 at Kroměříž (Republique tcheque)
Death 26 august 1969 (at 69 years) at Innsbruck (Austria)
Birth 2 september 1899 at Kroměříž (Republique tcheque)
Death 26 august 1969 (at 69 years) at Innsbruck (Austria)
Miller appeared in several notable films, including Squadron Leader X (1943), English Without Tears (1944), The Third Man (1949), The Gamma People (1956), Peeping Tom (1960), 55 Days at Peking (1963), The V.I.P.s (1963), The Pink Panther (1963), and The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964). His most substantial roles include George II of Great Britain in Bonnie Prince Charlie (1948) and Kublai Khan in the Doctor Who serial Marco Polo. In the 1960s, he appeared in several ITC Entertainment cult television programmes, including Ghost Squad, Danger Man, The Saint, The Avengers and The Prisoner.
Biography
Miller was born Rudolph Muller in the Moravian city of Kroměříž, then known as Kremsier in Austria-Hungary, on 2 September 1899. He began a career as an actor working in Vienna in 1925 but fled Austria at the outbreak of World War II to escape the persecution of the Jews and reportedly arrived in London in 1940 to pursue a career in the British industry.1940s
It wasn't until 1943 that Miller had a major role in a major film, playing Mr. Krohn in Lance Comfort's World War II spy drama Squadron Leader X, alongside Beatrice Varley and Ann Dvorak. This role was quickly followed by his first of many roles as a doctor, playing Doctor Novotny in Harold S. Bucquet's spy film The Adventures of Tartu. In 1944, Comfort hired him again to appear in his picture Hotel Reserve, about a hunt for a spy in a hotel in southern France just before World War II. Based on a novel by Eric Ambler, the film saw Miller appear alongside James Mason, Lucie Mannheim and Raymond Lovell. He then had a small role as Schmidt in Harold French's romantic comedy English Without Tears (1944) alongside Michael Wilding, Margaret Rutherford and Penelope Dudley-Ward.
In 1945, he played a morgue keeper in Vernon Sewell's thriller Latin Quarter and in 1946 played Professor Hansen alongside Robert Newton, Raymond Lovell, Guy Middleton, Muriel Pavlow and Herbert Lom in Lawrence Huntington's Night Boat to Dublin and a postman in Maclean Rogers's Woman to Woman opposite Douglass Montgomery, Joyce Howard and Adele Dixon. The film, a romance drama, was based on the play Woman to Woman by Michael Morton.
In 1947 he starred as a professor in Vernon Sewell's comedy The Ghosts of Berkeley Square opposite Robert Morley and Felix Aylmer. The film is an adaptation of the novel No Nightingales by Caryl Brahms and S. J. Simon, inspired by the enduring reputation of the property at 50 Berkeley Square as "the most haunted house in London". That year he also portrayed Dr. Hans Tautz in Anthony Kimmins's drama Mine Own Executioner opposite Burgess Meredith, Dulcie Gray and Michael Shepley. The film was entered into the 1947 Cannes Film Festival.
In 1948 he portrayed a police inspector in Terence Young's One Night with You, alongside Nino Martini, Patricia Roc (and a young Christopher Lee with a minor role) an uncredited role as an Italian waiter at the Savoy Hotel in The Blind Goddess and a role as George II of England in Anthony Kimmins's biopic Bonnie Prince Charlie about the Jacobite Risings in a cast which included David Niven (as Charles II), Margaret Leighton, Judy Campbell, Jack Hawkins, Morland Graham and Finlay Currie. In 1949, he appeared as Tony the Cafe Proprietor in Lawrence Huntington's Man on the Run, a customer in Jack Warner's The Huggetts Abroad, Leon Stolz in Arthur Crabtree's Don't Ever Leave Me alongside Petula Clark, Jimmy Hanley, Hugh Sinclair, Edward Rigby, and Anthony Newley and had uncredited roles as black marketeer Herr Schindler in I Was a Male War Bride and as a headwaiter in The Third Man.
1950s
In 1951, Miller played a pawnbroker in the TV movie The Angel Who Pawned Her Harp, had an uncredited role as a photographer in Joseph M. Newman's I'll Get You for This, played a Dutch seaman in Paul L. Stein's Counterblast alongside Robert Beatty, Mervyn Johns and Nova Pilbeam and played the character of Carlo Penezii in the segment "Gigolo and Gigolette" of the anthology film Encore, a film which was entered into the 1952 Cannes Film Festival. In 1952, Miller played a rabbi in the TV series Portrait by Rembrandt and a photographer in Where's Charley?.
In 1953 he starred in Emeric Pressburger's Twice Upon a Time alongside Hugh Williams, Elizabeth Allan, Yolande Larthe and Charmaine Larthe and The Genie and between 1953 and 1954 he appeared in two episodes of Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Presents. In 1954, Miller portrayed Dr. Brukmann in Front Page Story, Professor Hyman Pfumbaum in You Know What Sailors Are, Dr. Fergus in Mad About Men and Brodcynsky in To Dorothy a Son. In 1955, Miller played Iggy Pulitzer in George More O'Ferrall's The Woman for Joe opposite Diane Cilento and George Baker, a pet dealer in the television movie Mother Michel and Her Cat, a Swiss tailor in John Paddy Carstairs's comedy Man of the Moment alongside Norman Wisdom, Belinda Lee, Lana Morris and Jerry Desmonde, and had an uncredited role as a Bandleader at an alligator rally in An Alligator Named Daisy.
A busy year, in 1956, Miller portrayed a hotelkeeper in the It Started in Paris episode of Sailor of Fortune, and as Chella in the Festival of Fear episode of The Adventures of Aggie. He had an uncredited role in Jay Lewis's comedy The Baby and the Battleship, starring John Mills, Richard Attenborough and André Morell, and played Professor Topolski in Child in the House and Lochner in John Gilling's science fiction picture The Gamma People alongside Paul Douglas, Eva Bartok and Leslie Phillips. In 1957 he played he starred in Hugo Fregonese's World War II picture Seven Thunders about two British escaped prisoners of war, opposite Stephen Boyd, James Robertson Justice and Kathleen Harrison. He also portrayed Papa Kolinsky in the A Penn'orth of Allsorts episode of Dixon of Dock Green.
In 1958 he played Brunet in Maclean Rogers's drama Mark of the Phoenix, alongside Julia Arnall, Sheldon Lawrence and Anton Diffring. He also appeared twice as Nat Danziger in ITV Play of the Week in 1955 and 1958, appeared in three episodes of the BBC's Sunday Night Theatre, one in 1956 and two in 1959. He also appeared in three episodes of ITV Television Playhouse, in 1956, 1959 and 1960, the first of which he had again portrayed a rabbi in the episode Skipper Next to God. In 1959, Miller had an uncredited role as Kakky in Expresso Bongo under the director's helm of Val Guest, starred as Hendricks in Violent Moment, and as a doctor in the TV film Henry IV, He played Dr. Schrott in Anthony Asquith's Libel, starring alongside Olivia de Havilland, Dirk Bogarde, Paul Massie, Wilfrid Hyde-White and Robert Morley. The film's screenplay was written by Anatole de Grunwald and Karl Tunberg from a 1935 play of the same name by Edward Wooll. He also made an appearance in the TV series Armchair Theatre in the episode Light from a Star.
1960s–death
In 1960, Miller portrayed Piggy in Robert Siodmak The Rough and the Smooth opposite Tony Britton, William Bendix and Edward Chapman, Dr. Pfeiffer in the episode Twentieth Century Theatre: The Price of Freedom of the BBC Sunday Night Play and starred as Dr. Rosen in the psychological horror thriller Peeping Tom, directed by Michael Powell. The film, which saw Miller star alongside Carl Boehm, Moira Shearer, Anna Massey and Maxine Audley revolves around a serial killer who murders women while using a portable movie camera with a spike to record their dying expressions of terror. It was a highly controversial subject with themes of child abuse, sadomasochism and fetishism and the extremely harsh reception by critics effectively destroyed the director's career as a director in the United Kingdom. However, it attracted a cult following, and in later years, it has been re-evaluated and is now considered a masterpiece. In 1960, Miller also portrayed Stravros in the episode The Lovers of the series Danger Man and Dr. Samuel Odenheim in Otto Preminger's war film Exodus opposite Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint, Ralph Richardson and Sal Mineo. In 1961 he made appearances in the television series Theatre 70 in the episode The Watchman of Saul and
as Hymie in Echo Four Two, in the episode There She Blows.
In 1962, Miller starred as Rossi in the Hammer Film Productions horror The Phantom of the Opera under the directorship of Terence Fisher, as Mr. Green in the episode Between the Balance Sheets of Dial RIX, as Dr. Steliz in the episode Blaze of Glory in Man of the World, as Papa Kadopolis in the episode The Marriage Broker of Zero One and as Braun
in the episode The Green Shoes of Ghost Squad.
In 1963, a particularly busy and high-status year, Miller featured as the man with the microscope in Ken Annakin's comedy The Fast Lady starring Stanley Baxter, James Robertson Justice, Leslie Phillips, Kathleen Harrison and Julie Christie, as Dr. Schroeder in Incident at Midnight, reprising this same character in the TV series The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre version and played Davidoff in the TV movie The Bergonzi Hand. He starred as Hugo Bergmann in the Samuel Bronston Productions-Allied Artists historical epic 55 Days at Peking, directed by Nicholas Ray and opposite Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, and David Niven. The film is a dramatization of the Battle of Peking during the Boxer Rebellion which took place in 1900 in China and received two Academy Award nominations for Dimitri Tiomkin (Best Song and Original Music Score). In 1963, Miller also appeared in another top picture, Anthony Asquith's The V.I.P.s in which he played Dr. Schwatzbacher in an all-star cast which included Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Louis Jourdan, Orson Welles and Margaret Rutherford, who won both the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and the Golden Globe in the same category for her performance in the film. The film was one of the biggest British MGM productions in years. According to the playwright Terence Rattigan, who wrote the screenplay, the film was based on the true story of Vivien Leigh's attempt to leave her husband Laurence Olivier and fly off with her lover Peter Finch, only to be delayed by a fog at Heathrow Airport. The team of director Asquith, producer Anatole de Grunwald and writer Rattigan were to produce another portmanteau film the following year entitled The Yellow Rolls-Royce, in which Miller also starred, albeit with a minor role as a head waiter. Again Miller was featured alongside prominent actors such as Rex Harrison, Jeanne Moreau, Ingrid Bergman, Shirley MacLaine and Omar Sharif. In 1963 he also played the photographer Pierre Luigi in the original Blake Edwards film The Pink Panther opposite Niven, Peter Sellars and Robert Wagner and all in the same year, he also starred as Mr. Smith in the TV series Espionage in the episode The Incurable One and Astolat in The Sentimental Agent in the episode A Little Sweetness and Light.
In 1964, Miller appeared as Professor Gruber in the science fiction horror picture Children of the Damned, had a stint playing Kublai Khan in two episodes of Doctor Who, Assassin at Peking and Mighty Kublai Khan, and also portrayed Dr. Zoren in the episode Fish on the Hook of Danger Man. He became an ITC productions regular from 1964 onwards, albeit with minor roles. He appeared in two episodes of The Saint, playing Jerome in the episode Jeannine (1964) and Mr. Justin in the episode The Smart Detective (1965) and played the role of Lazlo in two episodes of A Little Big Business in 1964 and 1965. In 1965 he portrayed Heinrich Miron in the The House of Bons Bons episode of The Third Man, had an uncredited role as Professor Spencer in The Avengers in the episode The Master Minds and had a role as Herman in the Christopher Miles comedy film Up Jumped a Swagman which also incidentally co-starred some ITC regulars such as Annette Andre and Ronald Radd.
In 1966, Miller appeared in the TV series Theatre 625 in the episode Focus, the The Baron in the episode Enemy of the State and as Dr. Heindrick in the series Adam Adamant Lives!, in the episode A Slight Case of Reincarnation. In 1967 he notably starred as Montross in The Forsyte Saga in the episode Portrait of Fleur and as a watchmaker in The Prisoner, in the episode It's Your Funeral. In 1969 he appeared in BBC Play of the Month, playing Professeur Vivier in the episode Maigret at Bay, the TV movie Mord nach der Oper, Dr. Israel Berg in the episode They Call Me Israel of the The Troubleshooters, Professor Pearson in the episode It's All Go... of Doctor in the House before making his last ever appearance portraying Dutrov in the series Department S.
He was booked for a role in The Last Valley, but while shooting on location in Innsbruck, died of a heart attack on 26 August 1969, aged 69.
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Assignment to Kill (1968)
, 1h42Directed by Sheldon Reynolds
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Patrick O'Neal, Joan Hackett, John Gielgud, Herbert Lom, Eric Portman, Peter van Eyck
Roles Police Chief (uncredited)
Rating60%
A private detective is hired by an insurance company to investigate a shipping tycoon who is suspected of deliberately sinking his own ships in order to claim the insurance money.
Up Jumped a Swagman (1965)
Directed by Christopher Miles
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Annette Andre, Ronald Radd, Suzy Kendall, Richard Wattis, Donal Donnelly, Bryan Mosley
Roles Herman
Rating49%
An aspiring Australian singer moves to London in the hope of a big breakthrough. He chases after a popular model not noticing the beautiful daughter of a pub owner who loves him. He also gets involved with a gang of thieves.
The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964)
, 2h4Directed by Anthony Asquith
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Political films, Road movies
Actors Rex Harrison, Jeanne Moreau, Shirley MacLaine, Alain Delon, George C. Scott, Ingrid Bergman
Roles Head Waiter
Rating63%
On a flatbed lorry driven in the streets of London, a motor car is under a grey cover with the initials RR. The Rolls Royce is first purchased by Charles, Marquess of Frinton (Rex Harrison) as a 10th wedding anniversary present for his French wife, Eloise (Jeanne Moreau). Frinton is Under-Secretary of State at the Foreign Office. The marquess is a longtime horse owner who has his heart set on winning the Ascot Gold Cup. This year his horse, named 10 June (his wedding anniversary date; also the writer Terence Rattigan's birthday) is the favourite and does indeed win. Lord Frinton is presented the Gold Cup by King George V. However, his elation is blighted when he finds his wife with her lover, his underling John Fane (Edmund Purdom), in the back of the Rolls with the shades drawn. For appearance's sake, Lord Frinton will not divorce his wife, but he returns the car.
Children of the Damned (1964)
, 1h30Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Horror
Themes Films based on science fiction novels
Actors Ian Hendry, Alan Badel, Barbara Ferris, Alfred Burke, Sheila Mathews Allen, Sheila Allen
Roles Prof. Gruber
Rating61%
Six children are identified by a team of UNESCO researchers investigating child development. The children have extraordinary powers of intellect and are all able to complete a difficult brick puzzle in exactly the same amount of time.
55 Days at Peking (1963)
, 2h34Directed by Nicholas Ray, Andrew Marton, Guy Green
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure, Historical
Actors Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, David Niven, Flora Robson, Burt Kwouk, John Ireland
Roles Hugo Bergmann
Rating67%
55 Days in Peking is a dramatization of the siege of the foreign legations' compounds in Peking (now known as Beijing) during the Boxer Rebellion which took place from 1898-1900 in China. It is based on the book by Noel Gerson.
The V.I.P.s (1963)
, 1h59Directed by Anthony Asquith
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Louis Jourdan, Maggie Smith, Orson Welles, Rod Taylor
Roles Dr. Schwatzbacher
Rating62%
The film is set within Terminal 3 of London Heathrow Airport during a fog. As flights are delayed, the VIPs (very important people) of the title play out the drama of their lives in a number of slightly interconnected stories. The delays have caused serious hardship for most of the characters and have plunged some of them into a deep personal or financial crisis.
The Pink Panther (1963)
, 1h55Directed by Blake Edwards
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy thriller, Crime
Themes Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors David Niven, Peter Sellers, Robert Wagner, Capucine, William Conrad, Claudia Cardinale
Roles Pierre Luigi - Photographer
Rating69%
As a child, Princess Dala receives a gift from her father, the Shah of Lugash--"the Pink Panther," the largest diamond in the world. This huge pink gem has an unusual flaw: looking deeply into the stone, one perceives a tiny discoloration resembling a leaping panther. (As the camera moves in, this image comes to life and participates in the opening credits.) When Dala is a young woman, rebels seize power in Lugash and then demand possession of the jewel, but the exiled princess refuses to hand it over.
Incident at Midnight (1963)
, 56minutesOrigin United-kingdom
Genres Crime
Actors Anton Diffring, William Sylvester, Justine Lord, Martin Miller, Clifford Earl, Peter Howell
Roles Schroeder
Rating60%
The Fast Lady (1962)
, 1h35Directed by Ken Annakin
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Stanley Baxter, James Robertson Justice, Leslie Phillips, Julie Christie, Kathleen Harrison, Eric Barker
Roles Man with Microscope
Rating60%
Murdoch Troon (Stanley Baxter) is a dour Scot living and working for a local government authority somewhere in the south of London. A shy young man, his main excitement comes from cycling. After he's forced off the road by an impatient car driver, he tracks down the owner, only to find that he is Commander Chingford (James Robertson Justice), the domineering and acerbic owner of a sportscar distributorship.
The Phantom of the Opera (1962)
, 1h24Directed by Freddie Francis, Terence Fisher, Peter Medak, John Peverall
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Musical theatre, Horror, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Ghost films, Musical films
Actors Herbert Lom, Heather Sears, Edward de Souza, Michael Gough, Harold Goodwin, Thorley Walters
Roles Rossi
Rating63%
The film opens in Victorian London on a December night in 1900. The first night of the season at the London Opera House finds the opening of a new opera by Lord Ambrose D'Arcy (Michael Gough), a wealthy and pompous man, who is annoyed and scornful when the opera manager Lattimer (Thorley Walters) informs him the theatre has not been completely sold out. No one will sit in a certain box because it is haunted. Backstage, despite the soothing efforts of the opera's producer, Harry Hunter (Edward de Souza), everyone, including the show's star, Maria, is nervous and upset as if a sinister force was at work. The climax comes during Maria's first aria, when a side of the scenery rips apart to reveal the body of a hanged stage hand. In a panic, the curtain is rung down, and Maria refuses to sing again.
Exodus (1960)
, 3h28Directed by Otto Preminger, George Cosmatos
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Historical
Themes Films set in Africa, Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films
Actors Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint, Ralph Richardson, Peter Lawford, Sal Mineo, Jill Haworth
Roles Dr. Odenheim
Rating66%
The film is based initially on events surrounding the ship Exodus in Cyprus in 1947 and then on events in Palestine during the founding of the modern state of Israel in 1948.
Peeping Tom (1960)
, 1h41Directed by Michael Powell
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Slasher
Themes Films about films, Snuff films in fiction, Films about television, Serial killer films
Actors Karlheinz Böhm, Moira Shearer, Anna Massey, Maxine Audley, Shirley Anne Field, Pamela Green
Roles Dr. Rosen
Rating75%
Mark Lewis meets Dora, a prostitute, covertly filming her with a camera hidden under his coat. Shown from the point of view of the camera viewfinder, tension builds as he follows the woman into her home, murders her and later watches the film in his den as the credits roll on the screen.
Libel (1959)
, 1h40Directed by Anthony Asquith
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Dirk Bogarde, Olivia de Havilland, Robert Morley, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Robert Shaw, Anthony Dawson
Roles Dr. Schrott
Rating70%
While traveling in London, Jeffrey Buckenham (Massie), a Canadian Second World War veteran, sees Sir Mark Sebastian Loddon (Bogarde) on television leading a tour of his grand family home. Buckenham was held in a German POW camp with Loddon, and while watching him, becomes convinced that he is in fact another former POW, Frank Wellney, an actor (also played by Bogarde). Buckenham publicly announces his suspicion that Wellney murdered Loddon during an escape from the POW camp, and has taken the young baronet's place. Loddon sues Buckenham for libel, but his mind is still battered by some terrible incident that occurred during his escape fifteen years before, and in time even his loyal wife (de Havilland) begins to doubt him.
The Rough and the Smooth (1959)
, 1h36Directed by Robert Siodmak
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Nadja Tiller, Tony Britton, William Bendix, Norman Wooland, Natasha Parry, Donald Wolfit
Roles Piggy
Rating60%
Un archéologue tombe amoureux d'une étrange jeune fille.
Violent Moment (1959)
, 1h1Directed by Sidney Hayers
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Lyndon Brook, Jane Hylton, Rupert Davies, John Paul, Moira Redmond, Bruce Seton
Roles Hendricks
Rating63%
A deserter from the British Army kills his wife during a fight. Although he becomes a successful businessman, his past eventually catches up with him.