Richard Warner

Richard Warner

Born: May 24, 1911
Died: January 14, 1989
in Congerstone, Leicester, Leicestershire, England, UK

Movies for Richard Warner...

Dream Demon
Title: Dream Demon
Character: Minister
Released: October 6, 1988
Type: Movie
As her marriage to decorated war hero Oliver draws near, well-heeled Diana moves into an apartment within an otherwise unoccupied, sprawling London house where she starts to experience strange and terrifying nightmares. But are these troubling night terrors merely the symptom of an unsettled mind, or the sign of something far more sinister at work? Hounded by a pair of sleazy journalists, Diana soon crosses paths with American tourist Jenny, who appears to have a strange connection to the foreboding house and its dark past.
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Maurice
Title: Maurice
Character: Judge
Released: September 18, 1987
Type: Movie
After his lover rejects him, Maurice tries to come to terms with and accept his sexuality in the restrictiveness of early 20th century England.
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Praying Mantis
Title: Praying Mantis
Character: Monsieur Magny
Released: January 1, 1982
Type: Movie
A middle-aged professor's young bride and his assistant plan to commit a double murder disguised as a "Crime Passionel", but discover too late that one of their intended victims has become a fellow conspirator.
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Murphy's Stroke
Title: Murphy's Stroke
Character: His Lordship
Released: May 21, 1980
Type: Movie
The horse Gay Future is at the centre of an Irish betting syndicate in 1974 which saw trainer Antony Collins present a poor performing horse at his stables. The betting stakes were subsequently raised, before the real horse was entered in the race.
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Title: Minder
Character: Fowler
Released: October 29, 1979
Type: TV
This comedy drama series featured Terry McCann, a former boxer with a conviction for G.B.H., and Arthur Daley, a second-hand car dealer with an eye for a nice little earner. Alongside his many business ventures, Arthur would regularly hire Terry out as a minder or bodyguard, later replaced by nephew, Ray Daley.
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Dial a Deadly Number
Title: Dial a Deadly Number
Released: November 18, 1975
Type: Movie
A young woman tormented by murderous dreams decides to call a psychiatrist for help but accidentally dials a desperate out -of-work actor.
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Inside Out
Title: Inside Out
Character: Wilhelm Schlager
Released: October 19, 1975
Type: Movie
An American ex-WW II POW returns to Germany 30 years after the war. He teams up with the former commander of his prison camp. Together they spring a Nazi war criminal from jail. He's the only one left who knows where a secret wartime cache of gold is hidden.
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Title: Crown Court
Character: The Hon. Mr. Justice Waddington
Released: October 11, 1972
Type: TV
Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the ITV network that ran from 1972, when the Crown Court system replaced Assize courts and Quarter sessions in the legal system of England and Wales, to 1984.
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Title: Crown Court
Character: The Hon. Judge Waddington
Released: October 11, 1972
Type: TV
Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the ITV network that ran from 1972, when the Crown Court system replaced Assize courts and Quarter sessions in the legal system of England and Wales, to 1984.
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Henry VIII and His Six Wives
Title: Henry VIII and His Six Wives
Character: Warham
Released: July 13, 1972
Type: Movie
Adapted from the BBC2 serial The Six Wives of Henry VIII. 1547, King Henry VIII's life has taken a turn for the worse and he is forced to look back over his life and the many loves which had brought him his three children, only one of which was the desired male heir to secure the Tudor dynasty.
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Mary, Queen of Scots
Title: Mary, Queen of Scots
Character: Walsingham
Released: December 22, 1971
Type: Movie
Mary Stuart, who was named Queen of Scotland when she was only six days old, is the last Roman Catholic ruler of Scotland. She is imprisoned at the age of 23 by her cousin Elizabeth Tudor, the English Queen and her arch adversary. Nineteen years later the life of Mary is to be ended on the scaffold and with her execution the last threat to Elizabeth's throne has been removed. The two Queens with their contrasting personalities make a dramatic counterpoint to history.
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Title: The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
Character: Count Krempelstein
Released: September 20, 1971
Type: TV
Adaptations of mystery stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's contemporary rivals in the genre.
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Title: Manhunt
Character: Loeffner
Released: January 2, 1970
Type: TV
Manhunt is a World War II drama series consisting of 26 episodes, produced by London Weekend Television in 1969 and broadcast nationwide.
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The Mummy's Shroud
Title: The Mummy's Shroud
Character: Inspector Barrani
Released: March 15, 1967
Type: Movie
Archaeologists discover the final resting place of a boy king, removing the remains to be exhibited in a museum. By disturbing the sarcophagus they unleash the forces of darkness. The Mummy has returned to discharge a violent retribution on the defilers as the curse that surrounds the tomb begins to come true. One by one the explorers are murdered until one of them discovers the ancient words that have the power to reduce the brutal killer to particles of dust.
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Give  A Dog A Bone
Title: Give A Dog A Bone
Released: December 12, 1965
Type: Movie
Religious British fantasy.
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Mr. Brown Comes Down The Hill
Title: Mr. Brown Comes Down The Hill
Released: December 12, 1965
Type: Movie
Religious play from Moral Rearnament.
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Title: Public Eye
Character: Bank Manager
Released: January 23, 1965
Type: TV
Public Eye is a British television series that ran from 1965 to 1975. It was produced by ABC Television for three series, and Thames Television for a further four series. The series depicted the investigations and cases handled by the unglamorous enquiry agent Frank Marker, an unmarried loner who is in his early forties when the series begins. In the words of an ABC trailer for the third series: "Marker isn't a glamorous detective and he doesn't get glamorous cases—he doesn't even get glamorous girls. What he does get is people who are in trouble—the sort of trouble you can't go to the police about, even if you are innocent."
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Title: The Human Jungle
Character: Sir Harry Branch
Released: March 30, 1963
Type: TV
The Human Jungle is a British TV series about a psychiatrist, made for ABC Television by the small production company Independent Artists for transmission on ITV. Starring Herbert Lom, it ran for two series which were first transmitted during 1963 and 1965.
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On the Run
Title: On the Run
Character: Prison Governor
Released: February 1, 1963
Type: Movie
An ex-con escapes from jail to clear himself about a robbery charge
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Title: The Saint
Character: Don Battista
Released: October 4, 1962
Type: TV
Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those in need.
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Title: Studio 4
Character: Dr. Richard John
Released: January 22, 1962
Type: TV
Studio 4 is a BBC drama anthology series, filmed at the BBC TV Centre's Studio Four, and screening over two seasons in 1962. The series was envisaged as a sequel to Storyboard, an anthology series which had been transmitted the previous year.
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Title: The Scales of Justice
Character: Prosecuting Counsel
Released: January 11, 1962
Type: TV
Not strictly TV productions, "The Scales of Justice" were cinema second features produced for Anglo Amalgamated running around 30 minutes and followed the "Scotland Yard" series of shorts also introduced by Edgar Lustgarten. Production was sporadic (presumably filling gaps in the Edgar Wallace schedule), the first three released Nov-Dec 1962, a second batch of three released Sept/Oct 1963, two more in Feb 1965, one in Dec 1965 and a final batch (in colour) Sept 1966 to March 1967. The usual Merton Park recipe of familiar British actors in tightly plotted screenplays (based on real cases) with better than usual B movies production standards. All thirteen have now (Oct 2012) been released on DVD by Network.
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Never Back Losers
Title: Never Back Losers
Character: Mr. Crabtree
Released: December 1, 1961
Type: Movie
Two rival gangs are trying to fix horse races and a jockey is attacked and left for dead in a stage-managed car crash. An insurance investigator makes routine enquiries into the "accident" and one of the gang leaders feels threatened by this and takes counter measures.
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Title: Sir Francis Drake
Character: Walsingham
Released: November 12, 1961
Type: TV
Sir Francis Drake was a British adventure television series starring Terence Morgan as Sir Francis Drake, commander of the sailing ship the Golden Hind. As well as battles at sea, sword fights, the series also deals with intrigue at Elizabeth's court, often caused by Spaniard, Mendoza.
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The Shadow of the Cat
Title: The Shadow of the Cat
Character: Edgar Venable
Released: May 1, 1961
Type: Movie
Tabitha, once the placid, gentle and devoted pet, adopts all the characteristics of a ferocious, wild animal following the murder of her mistress. The three guilty people are all trapped by the cat's power and each will come to untimely deaths of horrific proportions without anyone being able to solve the mystery that surrounds their brutal death.
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Title: Maigret
Character: Louis Potin
Released: October 31, 1960
Type: TV
BBC series based on the novels by Georges Simenon which starred Rupert Davies as Inspector Maigret, a French police detective who preferred to watch and listen in order to solve crimes. The series ran from 1960-63 on British television.
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Title: Sunday-Night Play
Character: Sigbert von Mohrungen, President of the Ministry of Supply
Released: September 25, 1960
Type: TV
BBC anthology drama series that ran over four seasons and replaced the previous BBC Sunday Night Theatre series.
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Village of the Damned
Title: Village of the Damned
Character: Harrington
Released: June 16, 1960
Type: Movie
In a small English village everyone suddenly falls unconscious. When they awake every woman of child bearing age is pregnant. The resulting children have the same strange blond hair, eyes and a strong connection to each other.
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Title: The Adventures of William Tell
Character: Headman of Dosten
Released: September 15, 1958
Type: TV
The Adventures of William Tell is a British swashbuckler adventure series, first broadcast on the ITV network in 1958, and produced by ITC Entertainment.
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The Strange World of Planet X
Title: The Strange World of Planet X
Character: Insp. Burns
Released: March 4, 1958
Type: Movie
Near a small English village, a scientific team is conducting experiments with magnetic fields, the results of which may have military applications but the intensification of which seem to be connected to UFO reports, a series of murders, an enormous insect egg, and a strange visitor with exceptional scientific knowledge.
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Contraband Spain
Title: Contraband Spain
Character: Inspector LeGrand, of the Surete
Released: March 15, 1955
Type: Movie
An FBI agent goes to the French-Spanish border to round up some smugglers and counterfeiters after his brother is murdered.
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The Large Rope
Title: The Large Rope
Character: Inspector Harmer
Released: December 1, 1953
Type: Movie
After being framed for a murder he didn't commit, Tom Penney (Donald Houston) serves his time and returns to his rural English home to establish a quiet life. When another victim is found, however, Tom is blamed for the crime and flees rather than returnng to prison. Hoping to find the real killer -- or killers -- Tom investigates while keeping a low profile to elude his pursuers, and a vital clue leads him on the path to possible redemption.
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To Have and to Hold
Title: To Have and to Hold
Character: Cyril
Released: March 1, 1951
Type: Movie
A man is permanently crippled in a horseback riding accident and then learns that he will soon die. He spends his last few days taking care of his family and trying to get his wife to find another man.
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Golden Arrow
Title: Golden Arrow
Character: Captain
Released: December 31, 1949
Type: Movie
On a journey from Paris to London, a Briton, a Frenchman and an American bond with each other and indulge in a romantic fantasy about a girl they see.
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When We Are Married
Title: When We Are Married
Character: Gerald Forbes
Released: November 16, 1938
Type: Movie
The Helliwells, the Soppitts, and the Parkers, old friends gathered to celebrate their common silver anniversaries. To their dismay they learn that their marriages may not be valid. On hand are an outrageous housekeeper and a photographer. The first play in history to ever be televised complete and unedited direct from the theatre. It is now believed to be lost. The BBC would make another television film version of this play in 1949 with several of the same actors from this film including Raymond Huntley, Ernest Butcher, Patricia Hayes, George Carney and Lloyd Pearson.