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Michael Sheard is a Actor British born on 18 june 1938 at Aberdeen (United-kingdom)
Michael Sheard (18 June 1938 – 31 August 2005) was a Scottish actor who featured in a large number of films and television programmes and was best known for playing villains. His most prominent television role was as strict deputy headmaster Maurice Bronson in the British children's series Grange Hill which he played from 1985–89. His most prominent film role was that of Admiral Ozzel in The Empire Strikes Back (1980).
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Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 18 june 1938 at Aberdeen (United-kingdom)
Death 31 august 2005 (at 67 years) at Isle of Wight (United-kingdom)
Birth 18 june 1938 at Aberdeen (United-kingdom)
Death 31 august 2005 (at 67 years) at Isle of Wight (United-kingdom)
Michael Sheard (18 June 1938 – 31 August 2005) was a Scottish actor who featured in a large number of films and television programmes and was best known for playing villains. His most prominent television role was as strict deputy headmaster Maurice Bronson in the British children's series Grange Hill which he played from 1985–89. His most prominent film role was that of Admiral Ozzel in The Empire Strikes Back (1980).
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Sheard died on 31 August 2005, aged 67, at his home on the Isle of Wight. He had been suffering from cancer. A few weeks previously, on 9 August, he appeared via telephone on the Iain Lee show on LBC and talked about his career in film and television.Usually with
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Another Life (2001)
, 1h41Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Natasha Little, Nick Moran, Ioan Gruffudd, Imelda Staunton, Rachael Stirling, Tom Wilkinson
Roles Mr. Justice Shearman
Rating61%
Chiefly set in London during the First World War and in the early 1920s (primarily 1921 and 1922) and based on a true story, the film concerns a daydreaming young woman, Edith Graydon (Little), who attracts, then marries, an ordinary shipping clerk, Percy Thompson (Moran), who reminds her of a character in books. Later, Edith carries on an affair with Frederick Bywaters (Gruffudd), a young merchant seaman and childhood friend of her younger brother. The Thompsons' marriage had been a failure for years when Edith became reacquainted with Bywaters, who by then was dating Avis (Stirling), Edith's younger sister. Over the course of their tempestuous affair, Edith writes to Bywaters during his extended absences at sea about her growing boredom and frustration with the dull Percy, who has grown jealous and violent at times. These letters burst with Edith's vivid imagination, including her hopes for a romantic future with Bywaters and her alleged attempts to kill her husband through feeding him glass and poisons. Edith's fantasy-driven promises to leave Percy stir Bywaters to a frenzy; he also resents the way Percy deprecates and even injures Edith. Finally, Bywaters attacks Percy with a knife, as the couple walk home from the theatre. The resulting trial and conviction of the lovers creates a sensation across Britain, as Edith maintains her innocence of any part in her husband's murder. Her letters paint a different picture, despite Bywaters' insistence he acted alone and impulsively. Despite a massive number of signatures on a petition protesting Edith's death sentence, the lovers hang on the same day. To the end, Edith conjures up dreams of her sentence's being commuted to life imprisonment, so her captors must sedate and carry her off to the scaffold.
, 2h7Directed by Steven Spielberg
Origin USA
Genres Fantastic, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Prison films, Transport films, Rail transport films, Motocyclette, Political films, Évasion, Alternate history films, Children's films
Actors Harrison Ford, Sean Connery, Denholm Elliott, Julian Glover, River Phoenix, Alex Hyde-White
Roles Adolf Hitler (uncredited)
Rating81%
In 1912, 13-year-old Indiana Jones is horseback riding with his Boy Scout troop in Moab, Utah. While scouting caves, Indy discovers a group of grave robbers who have found a golden crucifix belonging to Coronado and steals it from them, hoping to donate it to a museum. The men give chase through a passing circus train, leaving Indy with a bloody cut across his chin from a bullwhip and new phobia of snakes. Indy escapes, but the local sheriff makes him return the crucifix. Impressed with Indy's bravery, the leader of the robbers gives Indy his fedora.
, 1h32Directed by Andrew V. McLaglen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action
Themes Political films
Actors Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Ken Wahl, Richard Jaeckel, Wolf Kähler, Sonny Landham
Roles Adolf Hitler
Rating50%
September 1944, in German occupied France, Waffen-SS General Dietrich (Wolf Kahler) plots with other high-ranking Nazi officials to make a second attempt on Hitler's life.
High Road to China (1983)
, 1h45Directed by Brian G. Hutton
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Adventure, Historical, Romance
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Political films
Actors Tom Selleck, Bess Armstrong, Jack Weston, Wilford Brimley, Robert Morley, Cassandra Gava
Roles Charlie
Rating59%
Eve Tozer (Bess Armstrong) is a society heiress and flapper living the high-life in 1920s Istanbul. She needs to find her father (Wilford Brimley) before he is officially declared dead or risk losing her inheritance to his scheming business partner Bentik (Robert Morley). She hires WWI ace-pilot Patrick O'Malley (Tom Selleck) and his planes to locate her father. O'Malley is eager to take the job as he needs to leave town rather urgently himself. However, Eve, also an accomplished pilot, is determined to accompany him in his other aircraft, which causes the first of many arguments between Istanbul and China.
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
, 1h55Directed by Steven Spielberg
Origin USA
Genres Fantastic, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa, Political films, Children's films
Actors Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman, Ronald Lacey, John Rhys-Davies, Denholm Elliott
Roles U-Boat Captain (uncredited)
Rating79%
In 1936, archaeologist Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) braves an ancient booby-trapped temple in Peru and retrieves a golden idol. He is confronted by rival archaeologist René Belloq (Paul Freeman) and the indigenous Hovito people. Surrounded and outnumbered, Jones is forced to surrender the idol to Belloq and escapes aboard a waiting floatplane.
The Bunker (1981)
, 2h30Directed by George Schaefer, Gabriel Aghion
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Hitler, Political films
Actors Anthony Hopkins, Richard Jordan, Cliff Gorman, James Naughton, Susan Blakely, Martin Jarvis
Roles Heinrich Himmler
Rating67%
Le film présente les derniers jours de la vie d'Adolf Hitler passés dans son bunker, lors de la bataille de Berlin.
Green Ice (1981)
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Action, Adventure, Romance
Actors Ryan O'Neal, Omar Sharif, Anne Archer, John Larroquette, Philip Stone, Michael Sheard
Roles Jaap
Rating55%
A down on his luck engineer gets involved in an adventure with a mysterious woman and an emerald magnate.
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
, 2h4Directed by Irvin Kershner
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Action, Adventure
Themes Space adventure films, Monde imaginaire, Dans l'espace, Sur une planète fictive, Films about extraterrestrial life, Films about disabilities, Space opera, Children's films, Films about extraterrestrial life, Robot films
Actors Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams, Anthony Daniels, David Prowse
Roles Admiral Ozzel
Rating84%
Three years after the destruction of the Death Star, the Rebel Alliance has been driven from their former base on Yavin IV by the Galactic Empire. Princess Leia leads a contingent including Han Solo and Luke Skywalker in a new base on the icy planet Hoth. The Imperial Fleet, led by Darth Vader, continues to hunt for Rebels’ new base by dispatching probe droids across the galaxy.
Escape to Athena (1979)
, 2h5Directed by George Cosmatos
Origin United-kingdom
Genres War, Comedy, Action, Adventure
Themes Prison films, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Political films, Erotic thriller films
Actors Roger Moore, Telly Savalas, David Niven, Stefanie Powers, Claudia Cardinale, Richard Roundtree
Roles Sergeant Mann
Rating56%
In 1944 allied POWs, at a remote POW camp on an unnamed island, are forced to excavate ancient Greek artifacts. The camp Commandant, Major Otto Hecht (Roger Moore), who was an Austrian antiques dealer before the war, is sending some of the valuable pieces to his sister living in Switzerland.
The Riddle of the Sands (1979)
, 1h39Directed by Tony Maylam
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Action
Themes Spy films, Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Michael York, Simon MacCorkindale, Jenny Agutter, Alan Badel, Michael Sheard, Wolf Kähler
Roles Boehme
Rating63%
Carruthers, an official in the British Foreign Office, is invited on a yachting holiday by his old friend Arthur Davies. Davies explains he has an agenda - while boating around the Frisian Islands he came across an old sailor, Dollman, and his beautiful daughter Clara. He says he believes some men tried to kill him.
, 2h30Directed by Delbert Mann
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Historical
Themes Political films
Actors Richard Thomas, Ernest Borgnine, Donald Pleasence, Ian Holm, Patricia Neal, David Bradley
Roles Peter's Father
Rating70%
The film follows Paul Baumer, who during World War I enlists in the Imperial German Army with many of his high school friends, after being indoctrinated by their teacher (Donald Pleasence) as to the glory and superiority of German culture. After surviving training camp under the brutal Corporal Himmelstoss (Ian Holm), the young men board a troop train bound for the front lines. Ominously, at the same moment, they notice another train arriving in town loaded with wounded returning soldiers, who are carried off on stretchers. Once at the front lines, they are placed under the supervision of Stanislaus "Kat" Katzinsky, (Ernest Borgnine). Kat teaches them how to best take cover, how to find extra food, and other survival skills.
Les Misérables (1978)
, 2h30Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Historical, Romance
Actors Richard Jordan, Anthony Perkins, Angela Pleasence, Caroline Langrishe, Christopher Guard, Ian Holm
Roles Commissary
Rating72%
The plot follows the general outline of the novel of the same name, omitting many details and some entire episodes. The narrative is strictly chronological and avoids the digressions required to mirror the novel's structure. Many of the novel's minor characters do not appear or are combined. For example, the role of the Thénardiers is reduced to a scene in which Valjean ransoms Cosette from them.
Force 10 from Navarone (1978)
, 1h58Directed by Guy Hamilton
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes Political films
Actors Robert Shaw, Harrison Ford, Edward Fox, Barbara Bach, Carl Weathers, Franco Nero
Roles Sgt. Bauer
Rating63%
In 1943, after their successful mission on the Greek island of Navarone, Major Keith Mallory (Robert Shaw) and Sergeant Miller (Edward Fox) are sent to find and kill Nicolai. Originally thought to be a traitor who informed the Germans about Miller and Mallory during the Navarone mission, Nicolai is now known to be Colonel von Ingorslebon, a dedicated German spy believed to have infiltrated the Yugoslav Partisans as "Captain Lescovar" (Franco Nero).
Rogue Male (1976)
, 1h43Directed by Clive Donner
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Thriller
Actors Peter O'Toole, John Standing, Alastair Sim, Harold Pinter, Michael Byrne, Ray Smith
Roles Adolf Hitler
Rating65%
In early 1939, before the start of World War II, Sir Robert Hunter (O'Toole) takes aim at Adolf Hitler with a high-powered rifle, but misses when he is spotted and tackled by an SS guard. Captured and tortured by the Gestapo, he is then left for dead, but manages to make his way back to England where, to his shock, he discovers the Gestapo has followed him. Believing that the government would, in all likelihood, turn him over to German authorities, Sir Robert goes underground (literally) to escape his pursuers.
Erotic Inferno (1975)
, 1h20Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors Chris Chittell, Mary Millington, Michael Sheard
Rating50%
When Old Man Barnard (Anthony Kenyon), a millionaire, is reported drowned at sea his gold digging sons Paul (Karl Lanchbury) and Martin (Chris Chittell) come looking for their inheritance. Arriving at the Barnard family estate they renew an old enemy in Adam (Michael Watkins), their father's butler. He tells them the Barnard mansion has to remain locked and bolted until the will is read, begrudgingly all three men and their girlfriends will have to stay in the neighbouring farmhouse over the weekend. Unbeknown to him Adam is Old Man Barnard's illegitimate son, a fact Paul and Martin are determined to keep from him. Secretly they fear the whole inheritance will go to Adam. With their privileged lifestyles hanging by a thread the Brothers Barnard decide to pursue Adam’s finance Nicole (Jenny Westbrook). Reasoning that she will know where Adam has hidden the keys to the mansion, so that they can break in and destroy evidence of Adam’s parentage.