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Michael Barrington is a Actor British born on 3 july 1924 at Shropshire (United-kingdom)

Michael Barrington

Michael Barrington
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Birth name Michael John Barrington
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 3 july 1924 at Shropshire (United-kingdom)
Death 5 june 1988 (at 63 years) at London (United-kingdom)

Michael Barrington (3 July 1924 – 5 June 1988) was a British actor best known for his television work. His best remembered role is as the ineffectual Governor Venables in the popular sitcom Porridge which featured Ronnie Barker in the lead role.

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Filmography of Michael Barrington (5 films)

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Actor

Follow Me!
Follow Me! (1972)
, 1h35
Directed by Carol Reed
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Romance
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Mia Farrow, Chaim Topol, Michael Jayston, Margaret Rawlings, Annette Crosbie, Dudley Foster
Roles Mr. Scrampton
Rating68% 3.4446353.4446353.4446353.4446353.444635
Set in London, it is the story of a wealthy businessman (Michael Jayston), who suspects that his wife (Farrow) is having an affair. He hires a private detective (Topol) to follow her. She becomes aware that she is being followed, and the detective realises that she has found out. However rather than abandoning the case, the detective begins an elaborate game of cat and mouse with the complicity of the wife.
Up the Junction
Directed by Peter Collinson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Pregnancy films, Films about sexuality
Actors Dennis Waterman, Suzy Kendall, Adrienne Posta, Maureen Lipman, Liz Fraser, Barbara Archer
Roles Barrister
Rating68% 3.4403253.4403253.4403253.4403253.440325
Polly Dean (Suzy Kendall) gives up a privileged life in Chelsea and moves to a working-class community in Battersea where she takes a job in a confectionery factory in an attempt to distance herself from her moneyed upbringing and make her own living. She becomes friends with two working-class sisters and forms a relationship with a working-class boy who envies her access to an easy life and is frustrated by her denial of it. When Polly's friend becomes pregnant she decides to have an illegal abortion. Tragedy hits when a motorcycle accident kills one of the friends.
Privilege
Privilege (1967)
, 1h43
Directed by Peter Watkins, Paul Jones, Jeremy Child, John Heyman, Norman Bogner, Jean Shrimpton
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Science fiction
Themes Films set in the future, Political films
Actors Paul Jones, Jean Shrimpton, Jeremy Child, James Cossins, Arthur Pentelow, Doreen Mantle
Roles the Bishop of Essex
Rating67% 3.394783.394783.394783.394783.39478
The story is set in the then near-future of the 1970s and concerns a disillusioned pop singer, played by Paul Jones, who is manipulated by the church and state which seek to turn him into a messianic leader.
Payroll
Payroll (1961)
, 1h45
Directed by Sidney Hayers
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Michael Craig, Françoise Prévost, Billie Whitelaw, William Lucas, Kenneth Griffith, Tom Bell
Roles Hay (uncredited)
Rating69% 3.48853.48853.48853.48853.4885
Four crooks (Johnny Mellors, Monty, Blackie and Bert) plan and execute a robbery on a payroll van, using the inside knowledge of Dennis Pearson, who works as an accountant at the firm concerned. Pearson is under pressure to support his wife Katie (Françoise Prévost) who demands a higher standard of living. However, the van driver, Harry Parker, is killed during the heist, whilst Bert is fatally wounded by Parker's colleague Frank Moore. Nevertheless, the gang manage to get away with £100,000.