Peter Bathurst

Peter Bathurst

Born: May 4, 1912
Died: June 1, 1989
in Woking, Surrey, England, UK

Movies for Peter Bathurst...

Title: Moonbase 3
Released: September 9, 1973
Type: TV
The adventures of David Caulder and his crew stationed on Moonbase 3.
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Doctor Who: The Claws of Axos
Title: Doctor Who: The Claws of Axos
Character: Chinn
Released: April 3, 1971
Type: Movie
A group of gold-skinned aliens known as the Axons land on Earth and offer wondrous technology in exchange for fuel. The Doctor, however, isn't fooled, uncovering the Axons' true nature and once again facing his archenemy the Master...
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Separate Tables
Title: Separate Tables
Character: Sir Roger
Released: March 15, 1970
Type: Movie
A play by Terence Rattigan about the stories of several people staying at a seaside hotel in Bournemouth which features dining at "Separate Tables."
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Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks
Title: Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks
Character: Governor Hensell
Released: November 5, 1966
Type: Movie
Following the Doctor's regeneration into a new, younger body, the TARDIS lands at an Earth colony on the planet Vulcan in the far future. Mistaken for an official Earth Examiner, the Doctor discovers that a scientist called Lesterson is attempting to reactivate two inanimate, subservient Daleks found in a crashed space rocket. The colonists refuse to heed the Doctor's dire warnings that the Daleks are dangerous.
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The Murder Game
Title: The Murder Game
Character: Dr. Knight
Released: December 12, 1965
Type: Movie
A woman abandons her husband, changes her name, and remarries again. Complications ensue.
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The World of George Orwell: 1984
Title: The World of George Orwell: 1984
Character: Foster
Released: November 28, 1965
Type: Movie
Early adaption of Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four as part of the Theatre 625 series.
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Change Partners
Title: Change Partners
Released: July 1, 1965
Type: Movie
An adulterous couple turn to murder, only to discover that a petty crook and blackmailer has already had his eye upon them.
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Title: Doctor Who
Character: Chinn
Released: November 23, 1963
Type: TV
The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling spaceship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Along with a succession of companions, The Doctor faces a variety of foes while working to save civilizations, help ordinary people, and right many wrongs.
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Title: The Human Jungle
Character: Sir Laurence Powell
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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Title: The Scales of Justice
Character: Host
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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Title: The Scales of Justice
Character: Ferguson
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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Two Letter Alibi
Title: Two Letter Alibi
Character: Police Doctor
Released: January 1, 1962
Type: Movie
Charles Hilary is in love with Kathy Forrester, a beautiful television personality, but is married to Louise, an alcoholic with as many lovers as whisky bottles. His pleas for a divorce are met with threats and abuse. "You'll have to murder me first", Louise tells him and three hours later she is found dead, shot with her husband's pistol. When Charles is arrested, Kathy desperately sets to work to prove his innocence.
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Two Living, One Dead
Title: Two Living, One Dead
Character: Engelhardt
Released: April 3, 1961
Type: Movie
Three Post Office employees are at work when the facility is held up. The robber kills the supervisor and knocks out another employee. The third one offers no resistance and survives unscathed. Afterwards he begins to wonder if his refusal to resist was a prudent move to preserve his family, or an act of cowardice, as many in the town believe. The resulting conflict begins to tear apart his family.
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Make Mine Mink
Title: Make Mine Mink
Character: Gambler
Released: August 9, 1960
Type: Movie
In a mansion block in Knightsbridge, a gang of middle-aged biddies decide to brighten up "the dullness of the tea time of life" by staging a series of robberies on furriers, then donating the proceeds to charitable concerns. Terry Thomas as a retired army officer leads the gang, which includes Athene Seyler and Hattie Jacques, on a series of capers that nearly go awry when their maid, Billie Whitelaw, an ex-con and also a resident of the block, falls for a police officer.
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The Siege of Pinchgut
Title: The Siege of Pinchgut
Character: Attorney General
Released: August 1, 1959
Type: Movie
An escaped prisoner is trying to clear his name.
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Ten Little Indians
Title: Ten Little Indians
Character: General John Gordon Mackenzie
Released: January 18, 1959
Type: Movie
Ten strangers are invited to a mansion on a remote island, where they are killed one by one by a mysterious assailant. Based on the Agatha Christie novel, also known by the title And Then There Were None.
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Three Crooked Men
Title: Three Crooked Men
Character: Mr. Bond
Released: October 1, 1958
Type: Movie
Three men arrive in a small town to pull the local bank heist.
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The Diplomatic Corpse
Title: The Diplomatic Corpse
Character: Cartwright
Released: February 1, 1958
Type: Movie
London police and reporters from a local newspaper go after a gang of foreign criminals.
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The Betrayal
Title: The Betrayal
Character: Inspector Baring
Released: January 1, 1957
Type: Movie
Fourteen years after he was blinded in a WWII concentration camp, a Canadian perfume executive travels to London on business and recognizes the voice of the traitor who betrayed him and his fellow prisoners to the Germans.
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Supersonic Saucer
Title: Supersonic Saucer
Character: Bank Manager
Released: March 1, 1956
Type: Movie
A group of schoolchildren come upon an alien from Venus, and help him against a gang of criminals who are trying to kidnap him.
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Pacific Destiny
Title: Pacific Destiny
Character: Uncle
Released: January 1, 1956
Type: Movie
Life is strange and worrying for a cadet who arrives in the Pacific in the colonial service. And the testy resident commissioner, who had been expecting an experienced man, soon shows his disapproval.
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John and Julie
Title: John and Julie
Character: Station Master
Released: July 26, 1955
Type: Movie
The adventures of two children who runaway to London to see the coronation of Queen Elizabeth.
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Final Appointment
Title: Final Appointment
Character: Harold Williams
Released: October 1, 1954
Type: Movie
A pair of reporters try to discover the link between three unsolved, seemingly isolated murders. The only connection between them is they all took place on the same day in three successive years. The police don't trust their instincts - but as 10th July nears again, a solicitor has started receiving threatening letters...
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Dangerous Voyage
Title: Dangerous Voyage
Character: Walton
Released: September 3, 1954
Type: Movie
Intrigue and smuggling in the English Channel.
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Seagulls Over Sorrento
Title: Seagulls Over Sorrento
Character: Geoff
Released: July 13, 1954
Type: Movie
A Navy lieutenant is borrowed by the British to supervise torpedo experiments after one of their scientists is killed.
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Calling Scotland Yard: Falstaff's Fur Coat
Title: Calling Scotland Yard: Falstaff's Fur Coat
Released: February 20, 1954
Type: Movie
Because of his luxurious fur coat, a hammy actor becomes involved with crooks. His coat resembles the one that a gang's fence wears, and he is continually finding stolen jewelry in his coat pockets. When the gang learns that he is planning to turn the loot over to Scotland Yard, they go gunning for him and wound him while he is on stage performing 'Falstaff.' And, although wounded, he continues with his performance, trouper that he is that believes the show must go on, while the police are apprehending the gunmen.
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Title: The Quatermass Experiment
Released: July 18, 1953
Type: TV
The story of the first manned flight into space, supervised by Professor Bernard Quatermass of the British Experimental Rocket Group. When the spaceship that carried the first successful crew returns to Earth, two of the three astronauts are missing, and the third is behaving strangely. It becomes apparent that an alien presence entered the ship during its flight, and Quatermass and his associates must prevent the alien from destroying the world.
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Babes in Bagdad
Title: Babes in Bagdad
Character: Officer
Released: December 7, 1952
Type: Movie
The Kadi of Bagdad has harem troubles in this low budget comedy from Edgar Ulmer.
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Mother Riley Meets the Vampire
Title: Mother Riley Meets the Vampire
Character: BBC Announcer
Released: July 11, 1952
Type: Movie
The legendary Bela Lugosi as "the Vampire" teams up with Britain's much-loved "Mother Riley" in this hilarious comedy adventure. The Vampire plans to control the world with the help of his robot, which accidentally gets shipped to Mother Riley. Through radar control, he contacts the robot and orders it to come to him, bringing along Mother Riley! But his life is turned upside down when he holds this most meddling of mothers captive.
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Gift Horse
Title: Gift Horse
Character: Commander C.E. Spencer
Released: June 1, 1952
Type: Movie
Compton Bennett's war drama The Gift Horse follows the fortunes of ageing destroyer The Ballantrae and her crew from the time they come together in 1940 until the climactic raid on occupied St Nazaire in 1942. Trevor Howard plays Lt Cmdr Hugh Alginon Fraser, the newly appointed captain, back in service after having left the navy following a court martial.
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The Bismarck Convoy Smashed!
Title: The Bismarck Convoy Smashed!
Character: Commentator (voice)
Released: March 19, 1943
Type: Movie
An Australia propaganda war film documenting the Battle of the Bismarck Sea. Nominated for the Academy Award.
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Australia Marches with Britain: Highlights of the National War Effort
Title: Australia Marches with Britain: Highlights of the National War Effort
Character: Himself - Commentator (voice)
Released: February 14, 1941
Type: Movie
This film extols the over-producing wheat, meat, dairy, timber, steel, and Merino wool industries of Australia as assets to the Allied war effort. Describes the production of weapons and military supplies in Australian plants. "Dedicated to maintaining a life-line to Britain, Australia aids in the production of supplies and munitions for export; 'Aussie' troops are shown training and embarking for the front lines."