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Olaf Pooley is a Actor and Scriptwriter British born on 13 march 1914
Olaf Pooley (13 March 1914 – 14 July 2015) was an English actor and writer.
Death
He died on 14 July 2015, aged 101. Pooley was survived by his two children, Seyton and Kirstie, and four grandchildren.
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Olaf Pooley
Birth name Ole Krohn Pooley
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 13 march 1914
Death 14 july 2015 (at 101 years)
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 13 march 1914
Death 14 july 2015 (at 101 years)
Biography
In 1946 Pooley married actress Irlin Hall and together they had a daughter, the actress Kirstie Pooley (born 1954) and a son, comedian Seyton Pooley. In 1982 he married director Gabrielle Beaumont, although they later separated. Pooley emigrated to the United States in 1986 and lived in Southern California, with an art studio in Santa Monica where he devoted his time to painting. He turned 100 in March 2014 and became the oldest surviving Doctor Who actor with the death of Zohra Sehgal on 10 July 2014. Pooley became the oldest surviving Star Trek actor with the death of Ellen Albertini Dow on 4 May 2015.Death
He died on 14 July 2015, aged 101. Pooley was survived by his two children, Seyton and Kirstie, and four grandchildren.
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Filmography of Olaf Pooley (23 films)
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, 1h32Directed by Gabrielle Beaumont
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Actors Marc Singer, Tony Todd, Joey Zimmerman, Sandra Hess, Casper Van Dien, Patrick Kilpatrick
Roles Maldor
Rating39%
In the third installment in the series, Dar, the Beastmaster (Marc Singer) teams up with Seth (Tony Todd) to rescue his brother King Tal (Casper Van Dien). They learn that the boy was captured by the evil Lord Agon (David Warner), who has been sacrificing young prisoners in order to magically retain his youth, and seeks to gain immortality by releasing the dark god Braxus from his prison (a magical, prison-like realm). Along the way, the heroes are assisted by a beautiful witch named Morgana (Lesley-Anne Down), her acrobatic sidekick Bey (Keith Coulouris), and a warrior woman named Shada (Sandra Hess).
Wallenberg: A Hero's Story (1985)
, 3h20Directed by Lamont Johnson
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about religion, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Richard Chamberlain, Alice Krige, Kenneth Colley, Melanie Mayron, Stuart Wilson, Bibi Andersson
Roles Tibor Moritz
Rating72%
Raoul Wallenberg est un fonctionnaire suédois qui s'illustre pendant la Seconde guerre mondiale. Alors que les déportations de juifs sévissent dans toute l'Europe, Wallenberg se sert de sa position diplomatique pour délivrer de faux passeports à des dizaines de milliers de juifs leur évitant ainsi la Shoah.
Charlie Muffin (1979)
Directed by Jack Gold
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors David Hemmings, Jennie Linden, Sam Wanamaker, Ralph Richardson, Ian William Richardson, Pinkas Braun
Roles Soviet First Secretary
Rating66%
The Cold War espionage thriller follows the moves of British anti-hero spy Charlie Muffin (Hemmings) who has fallen on hard times since the forced retirement of Sir Archibald Willoughby, his previous boss at the U.K. secret service (played by Sir Ralph Richardson). His new boss, Sir Henry Cuthbertson (Ian Richardson), who epitomizes the haughty upper class British imperialist, hardly attempts to conceal his disdain for the under-educated agent who quite obviously doesn't stem from the "right class". Right at the start of the film, we witness how Charlie has evidently been deemed expendable and accordingly gets set up to be caught or killed during a joint mission in East Germany — this despite Muffin essentially having been responsible for the mission's success. Cuthbertson's lap-dog agents Snare and Harrison — who are both totally lacking in experience and as arrogant as their boss — are shocked and embarrassed to see Muffin returning alive and well.
Crucible of Horror (1972)
, 1h31Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Michael Gough, Yvonne Mitchell, Nicholas Jones, David Butler, Howard Goorney, David Butler
Roles Reid
Rating52%
The Assassination Bureau (1969)
, 1h50Directed by Basil Dearden
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Spy films
Actors Oliver Reed, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas, Curd Jürgens, Clive Revill, Vernon Dobtcheff
Roles Swiss Cashier
Rating63%
In London, during the early 1900s, aspiring journalist and women's rights campaigner Sonia Winter (Diana Rigg) uncovers an organisation that specialises in killing for money, the Assassination Bureau, Limited. To bring about its destruction, she commissions the assassination of the bureau's own chairman, Ivan Dragomiloff (Oliver Reed).
Naked Evil (1966)
, 1h25Origin United-kingdom
Genres Horror
Actors Anthony Ainley, Basil Dignam, Suzanne Neve, Richard Coleman, Olaf Pooley, Lawrence Tierney
Roles Father Goodman
Rating56%
The Password Is Courage (1962)
, 1h56Directed by Andrew L. Stone
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Biography, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Prison films, Political films
Actors Dirk Bogarde, Maria Perschy, Olaf Pooley, Alfred Lynch, Nigel Stock, Richard Carpenter
Roles German Doctor
Rating67%
Charles Coward (Dirk Bogarde) is a senior British NCO incarcerated in the POW camp Stalag VIII-B. He encourages his fellow inmates to escape, and tries to humiliate the German guards at every opportunity.
Sink the Bismarck! (1960)
, 1h37Directed by Lewis Gilbert
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Action, Historical
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, La bataille de l'Atlantique, Political films
Actors Kenneth More, Peter Burton, Dana Wynter, Carl Möhner, Laurence Naismith, Edward R. Murrow
Roles Officer of the Watch - 'Sheffield' (uncredited)
Rating71%
In 1939, Nazi Germany's largest and most powerful battleship, Bismarck, is launched in a ceremony at Hamburg with Adolf Hitler attending. The launching of the hull is seen as the beginning of a new era of German sea power.
Left Right and Centre (1959)
, 1h35Directed by Sidney Gilliat
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Ian Carmichael, Richard Wattis, Eric Barker, Patricia Bredin, Alastair Sim, Moyra Fraser
Roles TV newscaster
Rating61%
Robert Wilcot, a popular television personality, is selected as the Conservative candidate for the provincial town of Earndale in the upcoming by-election. His selection is mostly due to the influence of his uncle, Lord Wilcot a powerful local figure. His opponent is to be Stella Stoker, a fishmonger's daughter with a degree from the London School of Economics who has been chosen to stand for the Labour Party.
Windom's Way (1957)
, 1h48Directed by Ronald Neame
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Peter Finch, Mary Ure, Robert Flemyng, Natasha Parry, Michael Hordern, Grégoire Aslan
Roles Colonel Lupat
Rating58%
Sur l'île de Selim, le docteur Alec Windom, défend son hôpital contre la révolte des indigènes qui ont été renvoyés de la plantation voisine.
Anastasia (1956)
, 1h45Directed by Anatole Litvak
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Historical, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Films based on plays, Children's films
Actors Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brynner, Helen Hayes, Martita Hunt, Akim Tamiroff, Sacha Pitoëff
Rating69%
Ten years of turmoil have passed since the teenage Anastasia and her family (parents, sisters and brother) were presumed to have been killed by Bolshevik revolutionaries. Does the refugee Anna who has turned up in Paris have the bearing, speech, and intimate knowledge of the imperial family that the real grand duchess would have? Or is she merely a recovering amnesiac with a striking resemblance who has been cleverly groomed by the émigré General Bounine (Brynner) to stake a claim to 10 million pounds left by the Tsar in an English bank? In a series of encounters with former familiars and members of the imperial court, Anna begins to display a confidence and style that astonish her skeptical interlocutors, yet retains our sympathy by seeming more interested in recovering her own identity than the imperial bank account. In a climactic meeting with the Empress in Copenhagen, Anna and the Empress take the measure of each other, alternately projecting imperial self-possession and the anguish of family longing. Meanwhile, Bounine has become increasingly jealous of the attentions the fortune-hunting Prince Paul pays to Anna. At a grand ball at which her engagement to Paul is to be announced, the Empress has a private word with Anna/Anastasia, who subsequently elopes with Bounine.
The Gamma People (1956)
, 1h16Directed by John Gilling
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Horror
Actors Paul Douglas, Eva Bartok, Leslie Phillips, Walter Rilla, Martin Miller, Michael Caridia
Roles Bikstein
Rating53%
A passenger car carrying a reporter and his photographer mysteriously breaks away from their train, accidentally ending up on a side track in Gudavia, an isolated Ruritanian-style one-village Eastern Bloc dictatorship. The newsmen find a mad scientist using gamma rays to turn the country's youth into either geniuses or subhumans at the bidding of an equally mad dictator.
The Iron Petticoat (1956)
, 1h27Directed by Ralph Thomas
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Military humor in film, Transport films, Aviation films, Political films
Actors Bob Hope, Katharine Hepburn, James Robertson Justice, Robert Helpmann, David Kossoff, Nicholas Phipps
Roles Major Osip Feodor Ganovich
Rating51%
Captain Vinka Kovelenko (Katharine Hepburn) lands a Russian jet in West German territory, to the surprise of US armed forces, who take her prisoner. She is neither on a mission nor defecting, however, just upset about a personal matter back home.
Top Secret (1952)
Directed by Mario Zampi
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors George Cole, Oskar Homolka, Ernest Jay, Nadia Gray, Frederick Valk, Wilfrid Hyde-White
Roles Roblettski
Rating62%
George Potts, a plumber in a top secret government research plant, accidentally comes into possession of the plans for a revolutionary atomic weapon. As George leaves for his annual holiday, the research security team embarks on a nationwide search for the hapless 'sanitary engineer.' Meanwhile, the Russians get wind of the incident and intercept George, plying him with liquor and employment promises so that he'll hand over the plans to them. All the while, George never knows what the fuss is about: he thinks that the British and Soviet authorities are interested in his new plans for a modern plumbing system. The Russians offer him a job in the Kremlin doing research (on plumbing, he believes),and while there he falls in love with secret agent Tania, and discovers the true nature of the plans he is carrying.
The Woman's Angle (1952)
Directed by Leslie Arliss
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Edward Underdown, Cathy O'Donnell, Lois Maxwell, Claude Farell, Anthony Nicholls, Isabel Dean
Roles Fudolf Mansell
Rating57%
Story of three love affairs of man who belongs to celebrated family of musicians, culminating in divorce and his final discovery of happiness.