Wallas Eaton

Wallas Eaton

Born: February 18, 1917
Died: November 3, 1995
in Leicester, Leicestershire, England, UK
Wallas Eaton (18 February 1917 – 3 November 1995) was an English film, radio, television and theatre actor. He is perhaps best remembered for his voice roles between 1949 and 1960 in the BBC radio-comedy serial Take It from Here.

Eaton's favourite pastime was sailing, and he made a trip to Australia in 1975 to pursue his interest, after which he settled there permanently. He featured in the Australian soap The Young Doctors in 1979 as Roland Perry, a rich friend of principal character Ada Simmonds. He also made a few appearances in later episodes of the television drama serial A Country Practice.

Movies for Wallas Eaton...

Title: E Street
Character: Bishop
Released: January 24, 1989
Type: TV
An Australian television soap opera, set in a tough fictional inner-city district called Westside. The stories revolve around the local community there. Created by Forrest Redlich and produced by Network Ten from 24 January 1989 to 13 May 1993.
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The Wind in the Willows
Title: The Wind in the Willows
Released: December 12, 1988
Type: Movie
Based on Kenneth Grahame's classic children's yarn, this charming animated tale follows four colorful talking critters: the blithe Mr. Toad, the sensible Mole, the urbane Rat and the cranky but insightful Badger. When Mr. Toad's passion for cars lands him in dutch, it's up to his three woodland cohorts to bail him out and restore his reputation by outfoxing a horde of underhanded weasels.
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Around the World in 80 Days
Title: Around the World in 80 Days
Character: (voice)
Released: November 25, 1988
Type: Movie
English Lord Phileas Fogg has just become the main suspect in a daring bank robbery. Meanwhile, he has made a wager with several other lords that he will be able to travel around this world in a mere 80 days. Joined by his butler Passepartout, Fogg begins his journey. However, hot on his heels is Scotland Yard detective Mr. Fix.
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The Last of the Mohicans
Title: The Last of the Mohicans
Character: (voice)
Released: July 31, 1987
Type: Movie
An animated version of James Fenimore Cooper's classic wilderness adventure during the French and Indian War in colonial America. Hawkeye is in his prime as the famous scout who rescues the daughters of the Commander of a frontier fort. Produced by Burbank Films Australia.
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Treasure Island
Title: Treasure Island
Character: (voice)
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
Young Jim Hawkins is caught up with the pirate Long John Silver in search of the buried treasure of the buccaneer Captain Flint, in this adaptation of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.
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Kidnapped
Title: Kidnapped
Character: (voice)
Released: June 21, 1986
Type: Movie
Robert Louis Stevenson's hero David Balfour joins rebel Alan Breck Stewart in 18th-century Scotland.
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Title: The Flying Doctors
Character: Lloyd Somerset
Released: May 15, 1986
Type: TV
The Flying Doctors is an Australian drama series produced by Crawford Productions that revolved around the everyday lifesaving efforts of the real Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia. It was initially a 1985 mini-series based in the fictional outback town of Cooper's Crossing starring Andrew McFarlane as the newly arrived Dr. Tom Callaghan. The success of the mini series led to its return the following year as an on-going series with McFarlane being joined by a new doctor, Chris Randall, played by Liz Burch. McFarlane left during the first season and actor Robert Grubb came in as new doctor Geoff Standish. The series' episodes were mostly self-contained but also featured ongoing storylines, such as Dr. Standish's romance with Sister Kate Wellings. Other major characters included pilot Sam Patterson, mechanic Emma Plimpton, local policeman Sgt. Jack Carruthers and Vic and Nancy Buckley, who ran the local pub/hotel, The Majestic. Andrew McFarlane also later returned to the series, resuming his role as Dr. Callaghan. The popular series ran for nine seasons and was successfully screened internationally.
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The Man in the Iron Mask
Title: The Man in the Iron Mask
Released: December 31, 1985
Type: Movie
Teenage boy from a small village learns that he is in fact the secret twin brother of the current corrupt king of France. The four musketeers ask him to replace the king, but in a way that no one finds out about the switch. Burbank Films Australia animated release.
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Nicholas Nickleby
Title: Nicholas Nickleby
Character: (voice)
Released: March 16, 1985
Type: Movie
One twenty-year old boy, driven by what is right and just, overcomes the forces of unconscionable greed. This classic tale of human nature is brought to the screen in this entertaining animated feature.
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Robin Hood
Title: Robin Hood
Character: (voice)
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
With good King Richard away at war, the greedy Sheriff has forced the residents of Nottingham to pay all their money to him. But Robin Hood, with the help of his friend Maid Marion, a spy in the Sheriff's castle, is out to thwart the evil Sheriff and return the Kind to his rightful throne.
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The Old Curiosity Shop
Title: The Old Curiosity Shop
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
The classic fictional tale of Little Nell and her grandfather, animated by Burbank Films Australia.
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Oliver Twist
Title: Oliver Twist
Character: voice
Released: December 15, 1982
Type: Movie
This animated version of the classic Charles Dickens book faithfully follows the adventures of the young orphan Oliver Twist.
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Demolition
Title: Demolition
Released: June 21, 1979
Type: Movie
When British Intelligence, following a series of experiments designed to increase alertness of long-distance lorry drivers through use of tonal repetition, discovers chordation that completely erases all memory, it is obvious that such a cleansed mind may be programmed to perform any type of action. Erstwhile agent Peter Clarke inactive for years, is chosen as courier to transport an audio tape of the tones to his native Australia.
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Plunge Into Darkness
Title: Plunge Into Darkness
Character: Superintendent G.E. Gregory
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
An ex-pro athlete runner and his wife find a strange boy in the middle of nowhere along with a murdered couple. He runs to a nearby town for help while she keeps the boy company. Meanwhile, escaped convicts are heading to their location.
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The Last Wave
Title: The Last Wave
Character: Morgue Doctor
Released: December 15, 1977
Type: Movie
Australian lawyer David Burton agrees with reluctance to defend a group of Aboriginal people charged with murdering one of their own. He suspects the victim was targeted for violating a tribal taboo, but the defendants deny any tribal association. Burton, plagued by apocalyptic visions of water, slowly realizes danger may come from his own involvement with the Aboriginal people and their prophecies.
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Title: The Lost Islands
Released: April 18, 1977
Type: TV
The Lost Islands is an Australian television series. It first aired in Australia on 1 January 1976, and was later screened around the world, including the UK, France, Italy, The Netherlands, as well as Israel, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada and the United States.
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Deathcheaters
Title: Deathcheaters
Character: 2nd Police Sergeant
Released: December 16, 1976
Type: Movie
Two best friends, Vietnam War veterans-turned-stuntmen, are sent as spies to the Philippines on a top secret mission for the Australian government.
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Mad Dog Morgan
Title: Mad Dog Morgan
Character: Macpherson
Released: July 9, 1976
Type: Movie
The true story of Irish outlaw Daniel Morgan, who is wanted, dead or alive, in Australia during the 1850s.
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O Lucky Man!
Title: O Lucky Man!
Character: John Stone (Coffee Factory) / Col. Steiger / Prison Warder / Meths Drinker / Film Executive
Released: March 25, 1973
Type: Movie
This sprawling, surrealist comedy serves as an allegory for the pitfalls of capitalism, as it follows the adventures of a young coffee salesman in modern Britain.
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Title: The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
Character: Sterling
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: Up Pompeii!
Released: March 30, 1970
Type: TV
Up Pompeii! is a British television comedy series broadcast between 1969 and 1970, starring Frankie Howerd. The first series was written by Talbot Rothwell, a scriptwriter for the Carry On films, and the second series by Rothwell and Sid Colin. Two later specials were transmitted in 1975 and 1991.
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Lock Up Your Daughters
Title: Lock Up Your Daughters
Character: Staff
Released: March 29, 1969
Type: Movie
Three sailors on leave turn a British town upside down.
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Title: The Complete and Utter History of Britain
Released: January 12, 1969
Type: TV
The Complete And Utter History Of Britain was a 1969 television comedy sketch show. It was created and written by Michael Palin and Terry Jones between the two series of Do Not Adjust Your Set. It was produced for and broadcast by London Weekend Television but was not shown in other ITV regions. The idea was to replay history as if television had been around at the time. Sketches included interviews with the vital characters in the dressing-room after the Battle of Hastings, Samuel Pepys presenting a TV chat-show and an estate agent trying to sell Stonehenge to a young couple looking for their first home. Seven programmes were written and produced, but LWT amalgamated the first two episodes into a single "stronger" episode, resulting in a six-part series. For many years the entire series was believed to have been wiped. However, copies of the first two episodes have now been found, as have the complete first two episodes as produced. As of June 2008, none are known to have been repeated on television or released on DVD. Terry Jones has expressed dissatisfaction with the show, complaining after a showing of surviving episodes that the pacing was off and the soundtrack all wrong.
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Isadora
Title: Isadora
Character: Archer
Released: September 14, 1968
Type: Movie
A biography of the dancer Isadora Duncan, the 1920s dancer who forever changed people's ideas of ballet. Her nude, semi-nude, and pro-Soviet dance projects as well as her attitudes on free love, debt, dress, and lifestyle shocked the public of her time.
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Inspector Clouseau
Title: Inspector Clouseau
Character: Hoeffler
Released: July 19, 1968
Type: Movie
Detective Inspector Jacques Clouseau is borrowed from the Surete on special assignment for Scotland Yard in hopes that a fresh outlook will help the government recover the loot from the Great Train Robbery, which is being used to underwrite a new crime wave. What they don't count on, however, is having more than one Clouseau on the job.
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Title: Man in a Suitcase
Released: September 27, 1967
Type: TV
Accused of treason, a former U.S. intelligence officer based in London tries to clear his name, taking on freelance jobs around Europe as he searches for answers.
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Springtime for Samantha
Title: Springtime for Samantha
Character: Narrator
Released: May 21, 1965
Type: Movie
Samantha, beloved by Spring, is captured by a butterfly hunter.
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Horror of Darkness
Title: Horror of Darkness
Character: The Visitor
Released: March 10, 1965
Type: Movie
A studio-based drama by John Hopkins focusing on a trio of people at the point of crisis, with an underlying theme of homosexuality a couple of years before legalisation.
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Do Be Careful Boys
Title: Do Be Careful Boys
Released: January 1, 1964
Type: Movie
A BAFTA award nominated animated Industrial safety film featuring a clumsy fruit porter who learns the error of his ways, told as a mini-operetta.
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This Sporting Life
Title: This Sporting Life
Character: Waiter
Released: February 7, 1963
Type: Movie
In Northern England in the early 1960s, Frank Machin is mean, tough and ambitious enough to become an immediate star in the rugby league team run by local employer Weaver.
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Title: Hugh and I
Released: July 17, 1962
Type: TV
Terry is a youngish bachelor who lives with his mother (Vi Stevens). He's a bit of a dreamer who wants to get rich as quickly and as easily as possible. Terry comes up with one grand "get rich quick" scheme after another, causing endless problems for himself and his friend, Hugh.
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Two Way Stretch
Title: Two Way Stretch
Character: Gate Warder (Night)
Released: December 20, 1960
Type: Movie
Three criminals plan to break out of prison the day before their release in order to carry out a daring jewel robbery, intending to establish the perfect alibi by returning to jail afterwards. First however they must get out, a task made more difficult by a new, stricter prison officer.
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Operation Cupid
Title: Operation Cupid
Released: April 1, 1960
Type: Movie
A gang of criminals plan to use a marriage agency that they won during a card game, to arrange a lucrative marriage for one of their number.
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A Clean Sweep
Title: A Clean Sweep
Character: Ted
Released: January 1, 1958
Type: Movie
George Watson's domestic bliss is shattered when his wife discovers he has broken his promise never to gamble again.
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Adventure in the Hopfields
Title: Adventure in the Hopfields
Character: Junk Shop Owner
Released: June 6, 1954
Type: Movie
A little girl accidentally breaks her mother's favourite ornament and goes hop-picking to replace it.
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Let's Go Crazy
Title: Let's Go Crazy
Character: Mr. Jollibottom
Released: May 1, 1951
Type: Movie
Let's Go Crazy is a 1951 comedy film marking an early appearance of Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers playing multiple roles.
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A Man's Affair
Title: A Man's Affair
Character: Leonard
Released: January 1, 1949
Type: Movie
A miner, played by Scottish singer Hamish Menzies, meets a holidaying secretary on the Kent coast and love blossoms.