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Tom Chatto is a Actor born on 1 september 1920 at Elstree (United-kingdom)
Thomas "Tom" Chatto (1 September 1920 – 8 August 1982) was a British actor. He made some 28 appearances between 1957 and his death. Chatto appeared mostly in films, including Oscar Wilde (1960) in which he played the Clerk of Arraigns. He had a minor role in the pilot episode of Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) in 1969 in the episode, My Late Lamented Friend and Partner.
Born Thomas Chatto St John Sproule, Chatto was also well known for his role in the 1969 Guy Hamilton film, Battle of Britain. According to a London Palladium souvenir brochure from a 1970 production of Alladin, he was trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. During the war he was commissioned in the Indian Army. He is also the great-grandson of the founder of Chatto and Windus, the well-known publishers. After the war he maintained the family interest in books and became a director of the firm of book sellers, Pickering and Chatto. His work in the theatre includes Fings ain't Wot they used to be, My Fair Lady, Number 10, The young visitors, Hushabye, and The man who power over women. He has appeared on TV in Honey Lane, The Expert, and Happy ever after. In 1969 he appeared with Tommy Steele, Mary Hopkins in Dick Whittington at The London Palladium and in 1970 was The Emperor of China in Aladdin with Cilla Black, Alfred Marks and Leslie Crowther and with Alec Guinness in the play Time out of Mind.
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Birth name Thomas Chatto St John Sproule
Birth 1 september 1920 at Elstree (United-kingdom)
Death 8 august 1982 (at 61 years) at London (United-kingdom)
Birth 1 september 1920 at Elstree (United-kingdom)
Death 8 august 1982 (at 61 years) at London (United-kingdom)
Born Thomas Chatto St John Sproule, Chatto was also well known for his role in the 1969 Guy Hamilton film, Battle of Britain. According to a London Palladium souvenir brochure from a 1970 production of Alladin, he was trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. During the war he was commissioned in the Indian Army. He is also the great-grandson of the founder of Chatto and Windus, the well-known publishers. After the war he maintained the family interest in books and became a director of the firm of book sellers, Pickering and Chatto. His work in the theatre includes Fings ain't Wot they used to be, My Fair Lady, Number 10, The young visitors, Hushabye, and The man who power over women. He has appeared on TV in Honey Lane, The Expert, and Happy ever after. In 1969 he appeared with Tommy Steele, Mary Hopkins in Dick Whittington at The London Palladium and in 1970 was The Emperor of China in Aladdin with Cilla Black, Alfred Marks and Leslie Crowther and with Alec Guinness in the play Time out of Mind.
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The Boys (1991)
, 2h3Directed by Sidney J. Furie
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about capital punishment
Actors James Woods, Richard Todd, John Lithgow, Robert Morley, Joanna Gleason, Dudley Sutton
Roles Morris
Rating71%
A night watchman at a garage is found murdered, and four teddy boys are put on trial for the crime. Witnesses and suspects give differing accounts of the lead-up to the crime, and the truth emerges.
The Human Factor (1979)
, 1h54Directed by Otto Preminger
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Spy, Politic
Themes Spy films, Politique, Political films
Actors Richard Attenborough, Derek Jacobi, John Gielgud, Iman, Nicol Williamson, Robert Morley
Roles Gen. Phillips
Rating60%
Maurice Castle (Nicol Williamson) is a mid-level bureaucrat in MI6 whose life seems completely without peculiarity, peccadillo, or any highlighting quality to suggest he’s anything but a dull bureaucrat, except for the interesting, casually introduced detail that he has an African wife, Sarah (Iman), and son, Sam (Gary Forbes). Meanwhile, the company regime, represented by corpulent, bluffly cheery Dr. Percival (Robert Morley), who’s actually an expert in assassinations and biological toxins, and grey eminence Sir John Hargreaves (Richard Vernon), advise newly appointed security chieftain Daintry (Richard Attenborough) that, thanks to a source they have cultivated in their Moscow enemy headquarters, they believe they have a traitor at the MI6 African desk. The duo determine that the mole must be quietly killed, rather than be allowed publicity in a trial or a flight to Moscow. They determine quickly that the most likely candidate for the traitor is Arthur Davis (Derek Jacobi), Castle’s playboy office partner. Actually, Castle is the mole, but the information he leaks is entirely unimportant financial documents. He became involved in leaking to the Soviets when he was an MI6 agent in South Africa, seven years earlier: he met and fell in love with Sarah, and when their affair was discovered by the authorities, Castle was all but thrown out of the country, and he entrusted Sarah’s smuggling out of the country to a mutual communist acquaintance. Ever since, he’s been repaying the favor by filtering insignificant data to the Soviets. Castle makes one last informational drop to his communist handlers and he is summarily whisked off to Moscow for protection. However, Castle's primary problem is that he is not a communist, is not a communist sympathizer, and has absolutely no interest in politics, socialism, the Russian language, Slavic history or culture, geopolitical power plays, Moscow nor the Soviet Union. His only interest is in his wife and his son, who are left in London — where they will remain separated from him.
The Romantic Englishwoman (1975)
, 1h56Directed by Joseph Losey
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about writers, Films about sexuality
Actors Michael Caine, Glenda Jackson, Helmut Berger, Michael Lonsdale, Béatrice Romand, Kate Nelligan
Roles Neighbour
Rating60%
Elizabeth Fielding, femme d'un riche écrivain anglais, rencontre, Thomas, un jeune homme aux activités louches, lors d'un séjour thermal à Baden-Baden. Celui-ci la suit jusqu'en Angleterre et réussit à se faire inviter par Lewis, le mari d'Elizabeth. Ce dernier soupçonne celle-ci d'être l'amante de Thomas. Elizabeth imagine, à son tour, une liaison entre Lewis, son conjoint, et Catherine. Elizabeth fugue et part avec Thomas vers la Côte d'Azur. Avec la complicité du jeune amant, Lewis Fielding récupère son épouse.
When Eight Bells Toll (1971)
, 1h34Directed by Étienne Périer
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Action, Adventure
Actors Anthony Hopkins, Nathalie Delon, Robert Morley, Jack Hawkins, Corin Redgrave, Derek Bond
Roles Lord Kirkside
Rating59%
British Treasury secret agent Phillip Calvert (Anthony Hopkins) is sent to investigate the hijacking of five cargo ships in the Irish Sea, tracking the latest hijacked ship—the Nantesville, carrying £8 million in gold bullion—to the Scottish Highlands and the sleepy port town of "Torbay" on the "Isle of Torbay" (patterned after Tobermory, on the Isle of Mull).
Assault (1971)
, 1h31Directed by Sidney Hayers
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Horror, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction
Actors Suzy Kendall, Frank Finlay, Freddie Jones, Lesley-Anne Down, Tony Beckley, Anthony Ainley
Roles Police Doctor
Rating55%
After a schoolgirl is raped on her way home from school, police move in to investigate the case. After a further girl is attacked and killed, they call in the assistance of a doctor and a local schoolteacher to help solve the case.
, 1h29Directed by John Krish
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical
Actors Rod Taylor, Carol White (actrice anglaise), James Booth, Charles Korvin, Alexandra Stewart, Keith Barron
Roles Doctor
Rating56%
It! (1967)
, 1h37Genres Science fiction, Horror
Themes Films about religion, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Roddy McDowall, Jill Haworth, Paul Maxwell, Aubrey Richards, Ernest Clark, Ian McCulloch
Roles the young captain
Rating56%
A London museum's warehouse burns down leaving undamaged a statue, that the museum curator, Mr. Grove, identifies as "Mid-European Primitive." He is accompanied by his assistant, Arthur Pimm. While Pimm goes to get a flashlight for Grove for his further investigation of the statue, Grove is killed and found at the foot of the statue. This begins a series of unexplained deaths connected with the statue, which is later positively identified as the Golem of Judah Loew of the 16th century. An inscription in Hebrew heightens the suspense and horror of the story:
The Frozen Dead (1966)
, 1h35Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Zombie films, Films about viral outbreaks, Disaster films
Actors Dana Andrews, Anna Palk, Philip Gilbert, Karel Štěpánek, Alan Tilvern, Edward Fox
Roles Inspector Witt
Rating50%
Un scientifique fou garde en vie la tête des criminels de guerre nazis jusqu'à ce qu'il puisse trouver des corps appropriés sur lesquels les attacher afin de faire revivre le Troisième Reich.
Oscar Wilde (1960)
, 1h38Directed by Gregory Ratoff
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Films about writers, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Robert Morley, Phyllis Calvert, Ralph Richardson, Alexander Knox, John Neville, Dennis Price
Roles Clerk of Arraigns
Rating67%
Film biographique sur Oscar Wilde. Au soir de la première de sa pièce L'Éventail de Lady Windermere, Oscar Wilde rencontre le jeune Lord Alfred.
Quatermass 2 (1957)
, 1h22Directed by Val Guest
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Themes Films set in the future, Films about extraterrestrial life, Films about extraterrestrial life, Alien invasions in films, Disaster films
Actors Brian Donlevy, John Longden, Sid James, Bryan Forbes, William Leo Franklyn, Michael Ripper
Roles Vincent Broadhead, M.P.
Rating67%
As Prof. Bernard Quatermass (Brian Donlevy) struggles to gain government support for his Moon colonisation project, his interest becomes focused on reports of hundreds of meteorites landing in Winnerden Flats. Travelling there with Marsh, his colleague (Bryan Forbes), Quatermass finds a huge complex under construction, based on his lunar colony plans. Marsh discovers that an undamaged meteorite is shaped like a small stone rocket. It then cracks open, releasing a gas, leaving him with an odd V-shaped mark on his face. Black-clad guards from the complex arrive, armed with machine guns and sporting similar V-shaped marks, and take Marsh away, knocking down Quatermass and ordering him away.
The Girl in the Picture (1957)
, 1h3Directed by Don Chaffey
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Crime
Actors Donald Houston, Patrick Holt, Maurice Kaufmann, Paddy Joyce, Tom Chatto, John Paul
Roles George Keefe
Rating57%