Alexander Archdale

Alexander Archdale

Born: November 26, 1905
Died: May 13, 1986
in Jhansi, British India (now Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh, India)
Alexander Archdale (26 November 1905 – 13 May 1986) was an Indian born British actor.

Movies for Alexander Archdale...

The Killing of Angel Street
Title: The Killing of Angel Street
Character: B.C. Simmonds
Released: October 1, 1981
Type: Movie
Jessica Simmonds returns from overseas to find her retired professor father in a bitter public fight to save the historic Sydney waterfront houses on Angel Street. After her father's mysterious death, she joins forces with local residents and a union leader against corrupt forces. Based on the real life mysterious disappearance of Juanita Nielsen.
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Newsfront
Title: Newsfront
Character: Sir Charles
Released: July 29, 1978
Type: Movie
Two brothers working as news cameramen for competing companies in '50s Australia find their lives dramatically affected by the constantly changing times in which they live.
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The Night, the Prowler
Title: The Night, the Prowler
Character: Sir Roland Duddleston
Released: June 15, 1978
Type: Movie
Felicity Bannister is a young woman living in the shadow of her overpowering mother. Her oppression is her worst enemy until the day she is attacked by an intruder who breaks into her bedroom and forces Felicity into action. The tables are suddenly turned and Felicity transforms from the helpless victim into a ruthless renegade in search of trouble, driven by the anarchic thrill of malevolence.
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Born to Run
Title: Born to Run
Character: Callant
Released: October 13, 1977
Type: Movie
Journey to the land down under for a warm, thrilling story of a once proud racehorse stableowner, his adventurous grandson, and their dream to revive the golden days of horse racing glory.
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Leisure
Title: Leisure
Character: Commentator (voice)
Released: June 4, 1976
Type: Movie
The animated history of leisure: that concept most commonly known as free time.
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Title: Crown Court
Character: The Hon. Mr. Justice Norrington
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: Skippy the Bush Kangaroo
Character: Byron Creswell
Released: February 5, 1968
Type: TV
Skippy the Bush Kangaroo is an Australian television series telling the adventures of a young boy and his intelligent pet kangaroo, and the various visitors to the fictional Waratah National Park in Duffys Forest, near Sydney, New South Wales.
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The Road
Title: The Road
Character: Gideon Cobb
Released: June 17, 1964
Type: Movie
The road through the wood is said to be haunted; but are the ghosts from the past or the future?
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I Have Been Here Before
Title: I Have Been Here Before
Character: Walter Ormund
Released: February 5, 1964
Type: Movie
A German professor un-nerves the residents when he claims to have been in a small Yorkshire moors inn sometime previously.
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Marriage of Convenience
Title: Marriage of Convenience
Character: Prison Governor
Released: November 1, 1960
Type: Movie
A young woman going to her wedding is waiting for her fiancée, a hood in custody, who is allowed by the police to go to his wedding.
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Village of the Damned
Title: Village of the Damned
Character: Coroner
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: Deadline Midnight
Released: June 13, 1960
Type: TV
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A Touch of Larceny
Title: A Touch of Larceny
Character: Local Doctor (uncredited)
Released: February 4, 1960
Type: Movie
After falling in love with an American woman, Virginia Killain, who is engaged to another man, British Naval Commander Max Easton, hatches a plan that will get him enough money to support Virginia in the lifestyle she is accustomed to. Easton's plan is to disappear for a time making it seem that he has defected to the Soviets taking important Naval secrets from his job at the Admiralty and to return and sue the newspapers for slander. Not everything goes as planned for Commander Easton.
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Title: No Hiding Place
Released: September 16, 1959
Type: TV
No Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by Associated-Rediffusion for the ITV network between 16 September 1959 and 22 June 1967. It was the sequel to the series Murder Bag and Crime Sheet, all starring Raymond Francis as Detective Superintendent, later Detective Chief Superintendent Tom Lockhart.
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The Scapegoat
Title: The Scapegoat
Character: Gamekeeper
Released: August 6, 1959
Type: Movie
An Englishman in France unwittingly is placed into the identity, and steps into the vacated life, of a look-alike French nobleman.
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The Headless Ghost
Title: The Headless Ghost
Character: The Ghost of Sir Randolph
Released: April 18, 1959
Type: Movie
Three teenagers encounter a ghost who is in limbo until he retrieves his lost head. They do their parts to help him find it.
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Fiend Without a Face
Title: Fiend Without a Face
Character: Minister (uncredited)
Released: July 3, 1958
Type: Movie
An American airbase in Canada provokes resentment from the nearby residents after fallout from nuclear experiments at the base are blamed for a recent spate of disappearances. A captain from the airbase is assigned to investigate, and begins to suspect that an elderly British scientist who lives near the base and conducts research in the field of mind over matter knows more than he is letting on..
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Title: Ivanhoe
Character: Sir Robert of Thornton
Released: January 5, 1958
Type: TV
Ivanhoe is a British television series first shown on ITV in 1958-59. The show features Roger Moore in his first starring role, as Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe, in a series of adventures aimed at a children's audience. The characters were drawn loosely from Sir Walter Scott's 1819 novel.
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Three in One
Title: Three in One
Character: Firbank
Released: January 2, 1957
Type: Movie
This film contains three short stories about life in Australia in the 1950's.
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His Majesty O'Keefe
Title: His Majesty O'Keefe
Character: Bob Harris
Released: January 16, 1954
Type: Movie
Men steal for it. Nations go to war for it. The it is oil - and it grows on trees. Coconut oil is the precious lifeblood of 1870s South Seas traders. And lots of real blood will be spilled to get it! Screen royalty Burt Lancaster ist His Majesty O'Keefe in this last of three adventures that (along with The Flame and the Arrow and The Crimson Pirate) blew a revitalizing wind into the sails of the swashbucker genre. Action, cunning and derring-do are watchwords of the title seafarer as he befriends, defends and ultimately rules the islanders of exotic Yap. Lensed on gorgeus Fiji locations, grandly scored by Robert Farnon and rousingly directed by Byron Haskin, His Majesty O'Keefe delivers heroics of regal proportions.
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House of Darkness
Title: House of Darkness
Character: John Merryman
Released: June 1, 1948
Type: Movie
In this psychological thriller, an avaricious man covets his stepbrother's home. The greedy fellow knows that his stepbrother has a heart condition and so sets off a fatal attack by smashing a beloved violin. However, his actions do not come without a terrible price.