John Dearth

John Dearth

Born: October 16, 1920
Died: March 17, 1984
in West Ham, London, England, UK

Movies for John Dearth...

Global Conspiracy?
Title: Global Conspiracy?
Character: BOSS (voice) (archive footage)
Released: May 10, 2004
Type: Movie
Investigative reporter Terry Scanlon follows up the strange goings on in Llanfairfach, with interviews with people there at the time, including Professor Clifford Jones and mysterious boss, Stevens.
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Title: Kessler
Character: Graun
Released: November 13, 1981
Type: TV
Drama series about the attempts to unmask Ludwig Kessler, the fictional head of the Gestapo in Belgium from the series SECRET ARMY, who escaped punishment, changed his name to Manfred Dorf, and became a successful businessman.
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Nipper
Title: Nipper
Character: Tramp
Released: November 15, 1977
Type: Movie
Teenager Jimmy's life begins to unravel after the death of his father. With his mother promiscuous and his new stepfather and stepbrother difficult to get along with, he begins to fall into a cycle of petty crime and self harm.
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Doctor Who: Planet of the Spiders
Title: Doctor Who: Planet of the Spiders
Character: Lupton
Released: June 8, 1974
Type: Movie
The blue crystal that the Doctor took from Metebelis III in a previous adventure is desperately sought by the Eight Legs, a race of mutated spiders, as the final element in their plan for universal domination. With help from an old mentor, the Doctor realises the only way to foil the plot is to make the ultimate sacrifice. The Doctor must risk death to return to the cave of the Great One and save the universe.
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Doctor Who: The Green Death
Title: Doctor Who: The Green Death
Character: BOSS (voice)
Released: June 23, 1973
Type: Movie
The Doctor and UNIT investigate a deadly infection lurking underneath the Welsh mining town of Llanfairfach. It's an adventure that will change Jo Grant's life forever...
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Title: Justice
Character: Ernie Harris
Released: October 8, 1971
Type: TV
Justice is a British drama television series which originally aired on ITV in 39 hour-long episodes between 8 August 1971 and 16 October 1974. Margaret Lockwood stars as Harriet Peterson a female barrister in the North of England. It was made by Yorkshire Television and was based loosely on Justice Is a Woman, an episode of ITV Playhouse broadcast in 1969 in which Lockwood had previously also played a barrister. The theme music was Crown Imperial by William Walton.
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The Drummer and the Bloke
Title: The Drummer and the Bloke
Character: The Man
Released: January 31, 1968
Type: Movie
Alf and Jack, two labourers hired to work in a quarry,have decided to go on strike because of the degrading nature of the job.
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The Siege of Manchester
Title: The Siege of Manchester
Character: Captain Birch
Released: October 31, 1965
Type: Movie
A German mercenary is hired to defend the small township of Manchester during the English Civil War.
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Title: Gideon's Way
Character: Det. Supt. Warr
Released: March 18, 1965
Type: TV
Gideon's Way is a British television crime series made by ITC Entertainment in 1964/65, based on the novels by John Creasey. The series was made at Elstree in twin production with The Saint TV series. It starred Liverpudlian John Gregson in the title role as Commander George Gideon of Scotland Yard, with Alexander Davion as his assistant, Detective Chief Inspector David Keen, Reginald Jessup as Det. Superintendent LeMaitre, Ian Rossiter as Detective Chief Superintendent Joe Bell and Basil Dignam as Commissioner Scott-Marle. The show did not acknowledge any help from Scotland Yard, any other police force or advisor. Daphne Anderson starred as his wife, Kate with Giles Watling as young son, Malcolm, Richard James as older son, Matthew who seemed to have a lot of new girlfriends and Andrea Allan as daughter, Pru. Unusually for police stories, Gideon was shown as a family man at home though urgent phone calls from his bosses tend to disrupt family plans too often. However, he did admit in "State Visit" that his wife had walked out on him for a while years ago when he put the job first and her second. They live in an expensive detached house in Chelsea.
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Title: Doctor Who
Character: Boss (voice)
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: Doctor Who
Character: Lupton
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 Young Jacobites
Character: Sergeant
Released: July 25, 1963
Type: TV
Two children on holiday on The Isle of Skye, Scotland, go back in time and help Bonnie Prince Charlie escape from Scotland to France.
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Title: The Saint
Character: Inspector Coudot
Released: October 4, 1962
Type: TV
Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those in need.
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Title: The Saint
Character: Raymond Fouquet
Released: October 4, 1962
Type: TV
Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those in need.
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Strongroom
Title: Strongroom
Character: Police Sergeant Hopkins
Released: May 4, 1962
Type: Movie
During a bank robbery, the manager and a cashier are locked in the strongroom, while the crooks escape. Later, when the gang realise that their plan to release the pair has gone wrong, they return to the bank to try and release them before the police turn up.
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The Road to Hong Kong
Title: The Road to Hong Kong
Character: Leader's Man (uncredited)
Released: March 29, 1962
Type: Movie
When Chester accidentally memorises and destroys the only copy of a secret Russian formula for a new and improved rocket fuel, he and Harry are thrust into international intrigue, trying to stay alive while keeping the formula out of enemy hands.
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Three Spare Wives
Title: Three Spare Wives
Character: News Editor
Released: January 1, 1962
Type: Movie
A man inherits a harem of three wives from his late uncle, which he brings home to his real wife in England. British comedy from 1962.
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The Day the Earth Caught Fire
Title: The Day the Earth Caught Fire
Character: Dick (uncredited)
Released: November 1, 1961
Type: Movie
British reporters suspect an international cover-up of a global disaster in progress... and they're right. Hysterical panic has engulfed the world after the United States and the Soviet Union simultaneously detonate nuclear devices and have caused the orbit of the Earth to alter, sending it hurtling towards the sun.
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The Shadow of the Cat
Title: The Shadow of the Cat
Character: Constable Hamer (uncredited)
Released: May 1, 1961
Type: Movie
Tabitha, once the placid, gentle and devoted pet, adopts all the characteristics of a ferocious, wild animal following the murder of her mistress. The three guilty people are all trapped by the cat's power and each will come to untimely deaths of horrific proportions without anyone being able to solve the mystery that surrounds their brutal death.
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Circle of Deception
Title: Circle of Deception
Character: Captain Ormrod
Released: November 1, 1960
Type: Movie
Unbeknownst to him, a soldier is sent on a doomed mission because of the high likelihood of him divulging secrets if captured and tortured.
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Dead Lucky
Title: Dead Lucky
Character: Torrance
Released: June 1, 1960
Type: Movie
Mike Billing's newspaper series about quasi-illegal gambling parties in Mayfair have so far been works more of imagination than genuine journalism. But when he and his columnist girlfriend, Jenny Drew, finally manage to infiltrate one of them, it leads quickly to trouble. The party's organiser is found murdered the next morning, and a number of suspects begin to emerge. But which of them killed Lucky Lewis?
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The Young Jacobites
Title: The Young Jacobites
Character: Sergeant
Released: June 1, 1960
Type: Movie
The story of Highland children who help Bonnie Prince Charlie to escape to France after the battle of Culloden. Serial in 8 episodes: 1. Journey into the past (15mins; 1367 feet) 2. The traitor (16mins; 1423 feet) 3. The league in action (14mins; 1290 feet) 4. The ambush (15mins; 1385 feet) 5. The prince must be warned (14mins; 1292 feet) 6. The rescue (17mins; 1542 feet) 7. The enemy closes in (15mins; 1322 feet) 8. Over the threshold (20 mins; 1782 feet)
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The Wreck of the Mary Deare
Title: The Wreck of the Mary Deare
Character: Reporter
Released: November 17, 1959
Type: Movie
A disgraced merchant marine officer elects to stay aboard his sinking cargo ship in order to prove the vessel was deliberately scuttled and, as a result, vindicate his good name.
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Look Back in Anger
Title: Look Back in Anger
Character: Pet Stall Man
Released: September 15, 1959
Type: Movie
A disillusioned, angry university graduate comes to terms with his grudge against middle-class life and values.
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Danger Within
Title: Danger Within
Character: Lt. Robson
Released: February 17, 1959
Type: Movie
Drama set in an Italian prisoner of war camp during World War 2, where a group of British soldiers find their plans for escape thwarted by a mysterious traitor in their midst.
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Dangerous Exile
Title: Dangerous Exile
Character: Simon the Jailer
Released: December 12, 1957
Type: Movie
Dangerous Exile is a 1957 British historical drama film directed by Brian Desmond Hurst and starring Louis Jourdan, Belinda Lee, Anne Heywood and Richard O'Sullivan. It concerns the fate of Louis XVII, who died in 1795 as a boy, yet was popularly believed to have escaped from his French revolutionary captors.
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The Flying Scot
Title: The Flying Scot
Character: Father
Released: November 1, 1957
Type: Movie
A gang of four would-be robbers plans to steal a fortune in currency hidden aboard the "Flying Scotsman" in a railroad stateroom by cutting through the wall of the adjacent stateroom, but find themselves up against numerous unexpected drawbacks, including interference by their fellow passengers.
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Title: The Buccaneers
Character: Bellows
Released: September 19, 1956
Type: TV
The adventures of privateer Captain Dan Tempest and his crew of former pirates as they make their way across the seven seas in The Sultana.
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Title: The Adventures of Sir Lancelot
Character: Piggott
Released: September 15, 1956
Type: TV
The Adventures of Sir Lancelot is a British television series first broadcast in 1956, produced by Sapphire Films for ITC Entertainment and screened on the ITV network. The series starred William Russell as the eponymous Sir Lancelot, a Knight of the Round Table in the time of King Arthur at Camelot.