William Beckley

William Beckley

Born: January 15, 1930
Died: March 11, 2015
in London, England, UK

Movies for William Beckley...

My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Legend of Errol Flynn
Title: My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Legend of Errol Flynn
Character: Alexandre
Released: January 21, 1985
Type: Movie
The life and wanton times of Errol Flynn
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Farewell to the Planet of the Apes
Title: Farewell to the Planet of the Apes
Character: Coucil Orang
Released: November 21, 1980
Type: Movie
When the astronauts Burke and Virdon, with their chimp companion Galen, are captured in a fishing village that employs human slave labor, they must prove their worth as fishermen or be sacrificed to the 'gods of the sea,' or what the men call sharks. Escaping from the forced labor camp, the trio become involved in a plot to develop a glider to drop a fragmentation bomb on the gorilla council. [The fifth of five telefilms edited from episodes of the 1974 TV series; this film combines the episodes "Tomorrow's Tide" and "Up Above the World So High"]
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Back to the Planet of the Apes
Title: Back to the Planet of the Apes
Character: Grundig
Released: November 17, 1980
Type: Movie
Astronauts Pete Burke and Allan Virdon crash on Earth in the far future and are captured by the apes. The men befriend a chimp named Galen who helps them to escape. In the hopes of finding a way to get back to their own time, the astronauts search for a computer in an earthquake-threatened city, with which they will be able to access their flight records. [The first of five telefilms edited from episodes of the 1974 TV series; this film combines the episodes "Escape from Tomorrow" and "The Trap"]
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Casino
Title: Casino
Character: First Officer
Released: August 1, 1980
Type: Movie
Mike Connors is a suave gambler who owns a floating hotel/casino which takes a turn when the passengers are stalked by a saboteur during the casino ship's maiden voyage.
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The Memory of Eva Ryker
Title: The Memory of Eva Ryker
Character: Leeds
Released: May 5, 1980
Type: Movie
A young woman has spent her life tormented by the death of her mother, who was on a ship torpedoed during World War II. When her father hires an investigator to look into the circumstances of the mother's death 30 years prior, it triggers a new rash of emotional turmoil for the young woman and uncovers a heinous crime.
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Hard Knocks
Title: Hard Knocks
Character: Richard
Released: April 1, 1979
Type: Movie
A suspenseful and romantic tale of a young man, Guy Montgomery (Michael Christian), whose whole life thus far has been a desperate escape from a tragic and dangerous past. Idealistic as he tries to be, a series of unfortunate incidents in the neon jungle of Hollywood lead him deeper and deeper into the mire of its seamier side until one terrifying evening at the home of a famous actress (Josette Banzet) Guy gets into a fight with her husband and beats him up so badly that he thinks he has killed the man. Once again, Guy is running from his past toward an uncertain future.
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Sextette
Title: Sextette
Character: Desk Clerk
Released: March 3, 1978
Type: Movie
On the day of her wedding to her sixth husband, a glamorous silver screen sex symbol is asked to intervene in a political dispute between nations, which leads to chaos.
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Young Lady Chatterley
Title: Young Lady Chatterley
Character: Philip - Fiance
Released: May 15, 1977
Type: Movie
Cynthia inherits a large estate and moves in. She reads her aunt's diary and finds out how she was taught in the ways of love by her gardener in 1901 at the age of 21. She decides to continue the fruitful relationship and gets it on with the handsome young gardener herself.
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The Gentleman Tramp
Title: The Gentleman Tramp
Character: (voice)
Released: October 10, 1976
Type: Movie
A film about the life and work of the master comedy filmmaker, Charles Chaplin.
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Title: Charlie's Angels
Character: Alec Witt
Released: September 22, 1976
Type: TV
Beautiful, intelligent, and ultra-sophisticated, Charlie's Angels are everything a man could dream of... and way more than they could ever handle! Receiving their orders via speaker phone from their never seen boss, Charlie, the Angels employ their incomparable sleuthing and combat skills, as well as their lethal feminine charm, to crack even the most seemingly insurmountable of cases.
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High Risk
Title: High Risk
Character: Butler
Released: May 15, 1976
Type: Movie
A troupe of former circus performers plot to steel a valuable artifact from an embassy in Washington, DC.
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The Deadly Volley
Title: The Deadly Volley
Character: Linc
Released: January 27, 1975
Type: Movie
Members of a professional tennis team are suspected in the attempted murder of the team's owner.
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A Time for Love
Title: A Time for Love
Released: July 19, 1974
Type: Movie
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Rex Harrison Presents Stories of Love
Title: Rex Harrison Presents Stories of Love
Character: Man
Released: May 1, 1974
Type: Movie
Pilot for a proposed television anthology series with stories about love, either dramatic or comedic. In this pilot, there were three different segments: in the first, a computer falls in love with its programmer; in the second, a World War II vet falls in love with a murderer; in the third, a woman falls in love with a penniless painter.
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Death Race
Title: Death Race
Character: British Airman
Released: November 10, 1973
Type: Movie
In the North African desert in World War II, a crippled American fighter plane that is unable to take off tries to evade and destroy a pursuing Nazi tank.
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Title: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Character: Syme
Released: April 22, 1973
Type: Movie
Adaptation of the novel by Oscar Wilde.
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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex *But Were Afraid to Ask
Title: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex *But Were Afraid to Ask
Character: King's Herald
Released: August 6, 1972
Type: Movie
A collection of seven vignettes, which each address a question concerning human sexuality. From aphrodisiacs to sexual perversion to the mystery of the male orgasm, characters like a court jester, a doctor, a queen and a journalist adventure through lab experiments and game shows, all seeking answers to common questions that many would never ask.
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Escape from the Planet of the Apes
Title: Escape from the Planet of the Apes
Character: British News Anchor (uncredited)
Released: May 20, 1971
Type: Movie
The world is shocked by the appearance of three talking chimpanzees, who arrived mysteriously in a spacecraft. Intrigued by their intelligence, humans use them for research - until the apes attempt to escape.
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Title: Night Gallery
Character: Richards - Lusitania (segment "Lone Survivor")
Released: December 16, 1970
Type: TV
Rod Serling narrates an anthology of fantasy, horror and sci-fi stories from a set resembling a macabre museum. A chilling work of art serves as the connective link between the stories.
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Too Late the Hero
Title: Too Late the Hero
Character: Pvt. Currie
Released: May 20, 1970
Type: Movie
A WWII film set on a Pacific island. Japanese and allied forces occupy different parts of the island. When a group of British soldiers are sent on a mission behind enemy lines, things don't go exactly to plan. This film differs in that some of the 'heroes' are very reluctant, but they come good when they are pursued by the Japanese who are determined to prevent them returning to base.
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Daughter of the Mind
Title: Daughter of the Mind
Character: Arnold Watson Bessmer
Released: December 9, 1969
Type: Movie
Professor Samuel Hale Constable is a government expert in the field of cybernetics. He and his wheelchair-bound wife Lenore became parents late in life, only to lose their daughter Mary before she reached adolescence. Now their daughter's spirit seems to be reaching out to her grief-stricken father from beyond the grave, encouraging him to give up the important project on which he's been working.
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Title: Hawaii Five-O
Character: Jonas
Released: September 20, 1968
Type: TV
Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired for 12 seasons from 1968 to 1980, and continues in reruns. Jack Lord portrayed Detective Lieutenant Steve McGarrett, the head of a special state police task force which was based on an actual unit that existed under martial law in the 1940s. The theme music composed by Morton Stevens became especially popular. Many episodes would end with McGarrett instructing his subordinate to "Book 'em, Danno!", sometimes specifying a charge such as "murder one".
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The Killing of Sister George
Title: The Killing of Sister George
Released: September 1, 1968
Type: Movie
When June Buckridge arrives at her London flat and announces 'They are going to murder me', her long-time lover and doll-cuddling flat mate Alice 'Childie' McNaught realizes that things are going to change. For June is referring to her character 'Sister George', a lovable nurse she portrays in a popular daytime serial. To make matters worse, the widowed executive at the BBC responsible for the decision to kill off Sister George - Mercy Croft is also a predatory lesbian who is after Childie and will stop at nothing to get what she wants.
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The Legend of Lylah Clare
Title: The Legend of Lylah Clare
Character: Zarkan
Released: August 21, 1968
Type: Movie
A dictatorial film director hires an unknown actress to play the lead role in a planned movie biography of a late, great Hollywood star.
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The President's Analyst
Title: The President's Analyst
Character: 2nd Puddlian
Released: December 21, 1967
Type: Movie
At first, Dr. Sidney Schaefer feels honored and thrilled to be offered the job of the President's Analyst. But then the stress of the job and the paranoid spies that come with a sensitive government position get to him, and he runs away. Now spies from all over the world are after him, either to get him for their own side or to kill him and prevent someone else from getting him.
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Title: Batman
Character: Reggie Rich
Released: January 12, 1966
Type: TV
Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually crime fighting duo Batman and Robin. A secret Batpole in the Wayne mansion leads to the Batcave, where Police Commissioner Gordon often calls with the latest emergency threatening Gotham City. Racing to the scene of the crime in the Batmobile, Batman and Robin must (with the help of their trusty Bat-utility-belt) thwart the efforts of a variety of master criminals, including The Riddler, The Joker, Catwoman, and The Penguin.
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The Collector
Title: The Collector
Character: Crutchley
Released: June 17, 1965
Type: Movie
Freddie is an inept bank clerk with no future. His only hobby is collecting butterflies, which gives him a feeling of power and control that is otherwise totally missing from his life. He comes into a large sum of money and buys himself a country house. Still unable to make himself at ease socially, he starts to plan on acquiring a girlfriend - in the same manner as he collects butterflies. He prepares the cellar of the house to be a collecting jar and stalks his victim over several days.
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My Fair Lady
Title: My Fair Lady
Character: Footman (uncredited)
Released: October 21, 1964
Type: Movie
A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.
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Title: The Rogues
Character: Young Man
Released: September 13, 1964
Type: TV
The Rogues is an American television series that appeared on NBC from September 13, 1964, to April 18, 1965, starring David Niven, Charles Boyer, and Gig Young as a related trio of former conmen who could, for the right price, be persuaded to trick a very wealthy and heinously unscrupulous mark. Although it won the 1964 Golden Globe award for Best Television Series, the show was cancelled after one season consisting of thirty episodes.
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Title: The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Character: Becker
Released: September 20, 1962
Type: TV
A continuation of the dramatic anthology series “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”, hosted by the master of suspense and mystery.