Paul Ditchfield

Paul Ditchfield

Born: December 30, 1938
in Manchester, England, UK
Paul Carter Ditchfield is an English-born South African actor, musician, and entertainer best known as one of the founding members of the comedy music group The Bat's. Paul is a prolific songwriter who plays keyboards and bass, and he formed The Bats pop group in 1964 with Eddie Eckstein, the late Barry Jarman and the late Jimmy Dunning.

The Bats' first single record - All I Got - made No. 1 on the South African charts. When The Bats played in England and Germany, they made it to No. 8 on the Radio London charts with their own composition, Listen To My Heart. While Paul was in London, he played bass on Eddie Grant's Baby Come Back and some other hits of Eddie Grant's group The Equals.

When the The Bats temporarily disbanded in 1980, Paul became a movie and stage actor, and TV presenter. He did live to air presenting, was a talk show host, game show host, and hosted numerous music specials across all TV channels.

Feature films he has acted in include Stop Exchange, Follow that Rainbow, Kick or Die, Curse of the Crystal Eye, Stander, Flight of the Phoenix, Number 10, Mountains Of The Moon, Konfetti, Hoof of Africa, Red Tide, and Reconnect.

He has also acted in numerous television movies including Operation Delta Force, Shark Attack, and 12 Days of Terror; and has appeared in the mini-series Rhodes and MacGyver, and the new Citan.

Television series he has acted in include 102 Paradise, Passeur d'enfants, Scout's Safari, Suburban Bliss, Wild at Heart, Settlers, Miss Candida, Trucking, Mponeng, Erfsondes, Jacob's Cross, and Donkerland.

His television presenting credits include Bash Kenako, Kellogg's Jackpot, M-Net Shopping Basket, Gillette Numbers Jackpot, Tele Games, Revue Plus, Escapade, Liquifruit Chit Chat and Video 2.

He has an extensive theatre resumé, including performances in the stage musicals Last Great Drive-In Movie Picture Show, Oklahoma, Grease, Ticket to Ride, Pump Boys and Dinettes, Buddy Holly, Hans Christian Anderson, and Barnum.

Born in Manchester, England, 9-year-old Paul sailed to South Africa with his father, mother, and younger sister Sandra on the Winchester Castle, a Union Castle Liner, arriving in Durban in January 1947.

Movies for Paul Ditchfield...

Early Retirement
Title: Early Retirement
Character: Johnny
Released: November 25, 2019
Type: Movie
Everyone at the retirement village is very excited that the new resident is a well-known detective, because every imaginable crime is committed here: From disappearing jewelry, to sleeping pills mixed into the tea - but what if he suggests it's all happening in their heads?
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Mountains of the Moon
Title: Mountains of the Moon
Character: Jacobus Marius
Released: December 20, 2013
Type: Movie
Chander Pahar follows Shankar Choudhury, a 20 year-old that takes a job working for the Uganda Railway, and winds up quitting his job in search of diamonds and the Kenya's Mountain of the Moon. Based on the popular Bengali adventure novel of the same name.
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Flight of the Phoenix
Title: Flight of the Phoenix
Character: Dr. Gerber
Released: December 17, 2004
Type: Movie
When an oil rig in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia proves unproductive, an aircraft crew are sent to shut the operation down and fly them out. On the flight out over the desert on the way to Beijing, Capt. Frank Towns and co-pilot A.J. are unable to keep their cargo plane, a C-119 Flying Boxcar, in the air when a violent sandstorm strikes. Crash-landing in a remote uncharted part of the desert, the two pilots and their passengers -- a crew of oil workers and a drifter -- must work together to survive by rebuilding the aircraft. Soon, low supplies and a band of merciless smugglers add even greater urgency to their task.
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Operation Delta Force
Title: Operation Delta Force
Character: Dr. Wells
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
A team of military experts and scientists go after a terrorist group that has seized a deadly virus and is threatening to release it.