Maxwell Reed

Maxwell Reed

Born: April 2, 1919
Died: October 31, 1974
in Larne, County Antrim, Northern Ireland

Movies for Maxwell Reed...

Picture Mommy Dead
Title: Picture Mommy Dead
Character: Anthony Flagmore
Released: November 2, 1966
Type: Movie
Susan Shelley is released from an asylum where she's been confined to after the shock suffered over the fiery death of her mother. Her father has a new wife, who has only married him for the money left to him by his dead wife. Susan is still haunted by her mother's memory, and her step-mother is conspiring with her lover to get the troubled girl to lead them to her mother's missing diamond necklace.
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Title: Daniel Boone
Character: Thomas Cromwell
Released: September 24, 1964
Type: TV
Daniel Boone is an American action-adventure television series starring Fess Parker as Daniel Boone that aired from September 24, 1964 to September 10, 1970 on NBC for 165 episodes, and was made by 20th Century Fox Television. Ed Ames co-starred as Mingo, Boone's Cherokee friend, for the first four seasons of the series. Albert Salmi portrayed Boone's companion Yadkin in season one only. Dallas McKennon portrayed innkeeper Cincinnatus. Country Western singer-actor Jimmy Dean was a featured actor as Josh Clements during the 1968–1970 seasons. Actor and former NFL football player Rosey Grier made regular appearances as Gabe Cooper in the 1969 to 1970 season. The show was broadcast "in living color" beginning in fall 1965, the second season, and was shot entirely in California and Kanab, Utah.
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Title: Sherlock Holmes
Released: May 17, 1964
Type: TV
Sherlock Holmes is a series of Sherlock Holmes adaptations produced by British television company BBC between 1965 and 1968. This was the second screen adaption of Sherlock Holmes for BBC Television.
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Title: The Great Adventure
Character: Major Hardwick
Released: September 27, 1963
Type: TV
The Great Adventure is a historical anthology series that appeared on CBS for the 1963-1964 television season. The series, narrated each week by Van Heflin, and featuring theme music by Richard Rodgers, presented a weekly one-hour dramatization of the lives of famous Americans and important historical events in American History.
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The Notorious Landlady
Title: The Notorious Landlady
Character: Miles Hardwicke
Released: April 13, 1962
Type: Movie
An American junior diplomat in London rents a house from, and falls in love with, a woman suspected of murder.
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Title: The Beachcomber
Character: Geoffrey Stapleton
Released: February 20, 1962
Type: TV
The Beachcomber was an ITC Entertainment adventure TV series which ran for one series of 39 half-hour episodes in 1962. Narrated by Cameron Mitchell, the series followed a rich executive who retired from the rat-race to become a beachcomber on a small South Pacific island.
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Title: Captain David Grief
Character: Captain David Grief
Released: October 3, 1957
Type: TV
Captain David Grief is an American action/adventure series that aired in syndication from October 1957, to 1960. The program was based on a series of Jack London short-stories centered around the South Seas tradesman and adventurer David Grief.
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Title: Perry Mason
Character: Chet Worth
Released: September 21, 1957
Type: TV
The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.
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Helen of Troy
Title: Helen of Troy
Character: Ajax
Released: January 26, 1956
Type: Movie
Prince Paris of Troy, shipwrecked on a mission to the king of Sparta, meets and falls for Queen Helen before he knows who she is. Rudely received by the royal Greeks, he must flee...but fate and their mutual passions lead him to take Helen along. This gives the Greeks just the excuse they need for much-desired war.
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Before I Wake
Title: Before I Wake
Character: Michael Elder
Released: February 10, 1955
Type: Movie
A woman travels to England to attend her parents' funeral. She is told by officials that they died of natural causes together, but she doesn't buy it. She comes to suspect that the nurse who took care of her parents was involved in their deaths, but since the nurse is well thought of in the town, no one believes her. What she doesn't know is that her parents' killer has selected her as the next victim
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The Brain Machine
Title: The Brain Machine
Character: Frank Smith
Released: January 1, 1955
Type: Movie
A British psychiatrist reads an amnesiac's (Maxwell Reed) brain waves and sees the mind of a killer.
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Ghost Captain
Title: Ghost Captain
Character: Don Inigo da Costa
Released: November 10, 1953
Type: Movie
A disgraced member of the Spanish Navy must redeem his family's honor after his father betrays his country to the French.
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Roadhouse Girl
Title: Roadhouse Girl
Character: Tom Price
Released: November 1, 1953
Type: Movie
A middle-aged garage owner's life is turned upside down when his new mechanics gets it on with his sexy younger wife.
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The Square Ring
Title: The Square Ring
Character: Rick Martell
Released: July 13, 1953
Type: Movie
Boxing drama following the lives of 5 different fighters and their reasons for becoming boxers.
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Sea Devils
Title: Sea Devils
Character: Rantaine
Released: April 12, 1953
Type: Movie
Gilliatt, a fisherman-turned-smuggler on the isle of Guernsey, agrees to transport a beautiful woman to the French coast in the year 1800. She tells him she hopes to rescue her brother from the guillotine. Gilliatt finds himself falling in love and so feels betrayed when he later learns this woman is a countess helping Napoleon plan an invasion of England. In reality, however, the "countess" is an English agent working to thwart this invasion. When Gilliatt finds this out, he returns to France to rescue the woman who's true purpose has been discovered by the French.
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Flame of Araby
Title: Flame of Araby
Character: Prince Medina
Released: December 18, 1951
Type: Movie
An Arabian-nights princess and a Bedouin chief contend over possession of a stallion, but unite to oppose the Corsair Lords.
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There Is Another Sun
Title: There Is Another Sun
Character: Eddie 'Racer' Peskett
Released: June 12, 1951
Type: Movie
Story of romance between a young boxer in fairground boxing booth and a chorus girl, and how 'Racer', a 'Wall of Death' rider in the same fairground, involves them in a robbery.
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The Dark Man
Title: The Dark Man
Character: The Dark Man
Released: January 22, 1951
Type: Movie
A killer called 'The Dark Man' commits double murder. This is witnessed by the young aspiring actress Molly Lester. The Dark Man tries everything to put Molly out of the way. Detective Inspector Viner of Scotland Yard investigates the murders.
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The Clouded Yellow
Title: The Clouded Yellow
Character: Hick
Released: November 21, 1950
Type: Movie
After leaving the British Secret Service, David Somers (played by Trevor Howard) finds work cataloging butterflies at the country house of Nicholas and Jess Fenton. After the murder of a local gamekeeper, suspicion (wrongfully) falls on their niece, Sophie Malraux (Jean Simmons). Somers helps Sophie to escape arrest and they go on the run together. After a cross-country chase they arrive at a coastal city with the intention of leaving the country by ship. All's well that ends well after the true identity of the murderer is revealed.
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Blackout
Title: Blackout
Character: Chris Pelly
Released: September 13, 1950
Type: Movie
A blind man is witness to a murder; later cured of his blindness he attempts to puzzle out the solution to the crime.
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Madness of the Heart
Title: Madness of the Heart
Character: Joseph Rondolet
Released: December 20, 1949
Type: Movie
A blind Englishwoman weds a French nobleman and moves into his family's chateau, but she quickly realizes someone there wants her out of the way.
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The Lost People
Title: The Lost People
Character: Peter
Released: August 22, 1949
Type: Movie
Set in a German theatre after the Second World War, two British soldiers are holding a disparate and hostile band of refugees in this theatre, prior to returning them to their homelands. The soldiers have difficulty dealing with the rivalries between Serb and Croat, resistance fighter and collaborator, Pole and Russian, etc. The threat of plague briefly unites them, but eventually even this wears off and the refugees unite in their hostility to the British.
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Daybreak
Title: Daybreak
Character: Olaf Tyson
Released: May 18, 1948
Type: Movie
A mysterious barber hides a secret identity that eventually leads to tragedy.
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Daughter of Darkness
Title: Daughter of Darkness
Character: Dan
Released: January 21, 1948
Type: Movie
In Ballyconnen, Emmy Baudine is a beautiful but disturbed young woman who works for the local priest. When the carnival comes to town, she encounters a handsome young boxer called Dan and lays his face open with her fingernails when he expects sexual favors from her. Hurriedly packed off by Father Corcoran to Yorkshire, Emmy is taken in by a farming family and manages to suppress the strange feelings of fascination and repulsion that she experiences in the presence of the opposite sex. Until, that is, the carnival comes to town and brings with it the vengeful Dan...
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Nightbeat
Title: Nightbeat
Character: Felix Fenton
Released: December 22, 1947
Type: Movie
After the war is over, two army pals take opposite paths in civvy street. One becomes a petty criminal, the other becomes a policeman.
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Dear Murderer
Title: Dear Murderer
Character: Jimmy Martin
Released: June 23, 1947
Type: Movie
When a man discovers his wife is having an affair, he commits the perfect crime.
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The Brothers
Title: The Brothers
Character: Fergus Macrae
Released: May 7, 1947
Type: Movie
An orphan wreaks havoc on a remote Scottish island when she causes an age-old feud to be reignited.
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The Years Between
Title: The Years Between
Character: American (uncredited)
Released: July 8, 1946
Type: Movie
Michael Redgrave, Valerie Hobson, Flora Robson and Felix Aylmer star in this moving and sophisticated story of love and loss set against the backdrop of the Second World War and based on the play by Daphne du Maurier. After hearing news that her officer husband has been killed in battle, Diana Wentworth forges a new life for herself, becoming an MP and learning to love again. Then, out of the blue comes the shattering news that her husband is not dead after all.