Colin Drake

Colin Drake

Born: March 8, 1917
Died: March 27, 2011
in England

Movies for Colin Drake...

Cast a Deadly Spell
Title: Cast a Deadly Spell
Character: Butler Meadows
Released: September 7, 1991
Type: Movie
In a fantastical 1940s where magic is used by everyone, a hard-boiled detective investigates the theft of a mystical tome.
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People Like Us
Title: People Like Us
Character: Ormonde Van Degan
Released: May 13, 1990
Type: Movie
When a wealthy scriptwriter and socialite's daughter is murdered, he feels let down by the courts, and so decides to use his powerful position to enable his own form of justice.
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Title: The Golden Girls
Character: Wilfred Cheswick
Released: September 14, 1985
Type: TV
Four Southern Florida seniors share a house, their dreams, and a whole lot of cheesecake. Bright, promiscuous, clueless and hilarious, these lovely, mismatched ladies form the perfect circle of friends.
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Title: Goliath Awaits
Character: Old Man
Released: November 11, 1981
Type: TV
During World War II the passenger liner "Goliath" is sunk by a German submarine. Portions of the ship's hull remain airtight, and some of the passengers and crew survive. Over the decades they build a rigidly regulated society completely isolated from the surface world until, in contemporary times, a diving team begins to explore the wreck.
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Rush
Title: Rush
Character: Maxwell
Released: October 9, 1980
Type: Movie
Rush premiered at the 18th New York Film Festival, and was the first film of Evelyn Purcell.
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The Great MacArthy
Title: The Great MacArthy
Character: Ackerman
Released: August 4, 1975
Type: Movie
Macarthy is a country town football champ who is kidnapped in a neon lit helicopter by tyrant Colonel Ball-Miller, the tycoon president of the South Melbourne football club.
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The Dominici Affair
Title: The Dominici Affair
Character: Sir Jack Drummond
Released: March 7, 1973
Type: Movie
In August 1952, a family of British tourists is found by the roadside in Haute Provence, brutally murdered. In the ensuing, very public, investigation a local landowner, 75 year old Gaston Dominici, is arrested for the murders, having been denounced by his sons. Under police interrogation, Dominici confesses to have killed the family and it looks certain that he will be charged, tried and sentenced to death. But then the case begins to collapse. The old man retracts his confession and the lack of evidence against him becomes apparent…
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Cesar and Rosalie
Title: Cesar and Rosalie
Character: Mr. Wilkinsen
Released: October 11, 1972
Type: Movie
Rosalie, a beautiful young woman gets involved with successful businessman Cesar. One day, Rosalie's former flame David appears and attempts to win her back. Cesar reacts with a jealous intensity never before seen by Rosalie, and because of that, she returns to David. She remains conflicted regarding her choice of partner, but eventually, one of the men does something which resolves the situation.
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Dust in the Sun
Title: Dust in the Sun
Character: Sheriff Edwards
Released: June 9, 1972
Type: Movie
In the dry, dusty western hamlet of San Angelo, landowner Joe Bradford kills his brother and then marries his brother's widow, Gertie. Gertie's son, Hawk, decides that something's rotten in this state of affairs and thinks about taking action
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L'Atlantide
Title: L'Atlantide
Character: Spardek
Released: February 24, 1972
Type: Movie
Two young French officers get lost in the Sahara desert and find themselves prisoners of Antinéa, who rules over the lost city of Atlantis. Under her evil influence, one of them, blinded by his love for her, loses his mind and goes so far as to murder his comrade... Jean Kerchbron adapts Pierre Benoît's book for this film, which is more concerned with social reflection than fantasy.
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Scandal Man
Title: Scandal Man
Released: February 14, 1972
Type: Movie
Marc, is a reporter in a tabloid. At the "Bongo Club", he photographs a young blond woman kissing a black man. This woman is the daughter of Senator Linden, head of the segregationist movement of USA.
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Give Her the Moon
Title: Give Her the Moon
Released: February 25, 1970
Type: Movie
Marie, a young provincial girl, is seduced by an American billionaire. She agrees to stay with him if he moves her village to New York.
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Mr. Freedom
Title: Mr. Freedom
Released: January 8, 1969
Type: Movie
Mr. Freedom, a bellowing good-ol'-boy superhero decked out in copious football padding, jets to France to cut off a Commie invasion from Switzerland. A destructive, arrogant patriot in tight pants, Freedom joins forces with Marie Madeleine to combat lefty freethinkers, as well as the insidious evildoers Moujik Man and inflatable Red China Man, culminating in a star-spangled showdown.
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The Exchange Student
Title: The Exchange Student
Character: Jenkins
Released: December 1, 1967
Type: Movie
Monsieur Bosquier, the owner of a private school, is far from pleased when his eldest son, Philippe, fails his end of year exams. He decides to send his wayward offspring to England to improve his English. In exchange, Philippe’s host, a wealthy whisky distiller, Mac Farrel, will send his daughter, Shirley, to live with the Bosquiers in France. However, Philippe has already decided to spend the summer holidays on a yacht with his friends, so he sends a fellow student, Michonnet, to England in his place. The deception is soon discovered but things go from bad to worse when Philippe and Shirley fall in love and fly to Scotland to get married...
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The Great Gadget
Title: The Great Gadget
Released: June 21, 1967
Type: Movie
A scientist from the East happens in France where it is supposed to improve one of his inventions. But it is much more interested in the fact to enjoy it and have fun ...
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The Champagne Murders
Title: The Champagne Murders
Character: Evelyn's Party Guest (Uncredited)
Released: March 31, 1967
Type: Movie
A champagne tycoon's partner suspects his partner's gigolo husband of murders he's been framed for.
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Triple Cross
Title: Triple Cross
Character: English Farmer
Released: December 9, 1966
Type: Movie
A safecracker turns double agent during WWII.
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O.S.S. 117: Mission to Tokyo
Title: O.S.S. 117: Mission to Tokyo
Released: October 28, 1966
Type: Movie
After an American Navy base is annihilated by a secret weapon, Agent OSS 117 is sent to Japan to investigate the organization that's claiming responsibility, and threatening the US with another attack, if they don't pay.
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The Sandpiper
Title: The Sandpiper
Character: Administrator (uncredited)
Released: June 23, 1965
Type: Movie
A free-spirited single mother forms a connection with the wedded headmaster of an Episcopalian boarding school in Monterey, California.
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On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts
Title: On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts
Released: November 19, 1964
Type: Movie
The habits and customs of a strange association, "La Sociéte des Gentlemen Redempteurs", which has turned assassination into a veritable art form. But all the fine mechanics of this secret organization go haywire when each member offers his wife to become the next victim.
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Rob the Bank
Title: Rob the Bank
Character: Le confrère anglais (uncredited)
Released: February 25, 1964
Type: Movie
Shopkeeper Victor Garnier has naively invested his family's life savings in an African mine, on his banker's recommendation. When the mine is nationalized, rendering the stock worthless, he considers himself shamelessly robbed by the bank; it seems only fair to him to return the 'favor' and rob the bank, teaming up with the whole family as they were all duped. Even for professionals such an enterprise -he decides to dig a tunnel- is quite demanding, but for simple commoners it's daunting, as they also have their personal downsides; thus Victor's wife has a most unwelcome tendency to blurt out the truth, even to the grumpy local copper: a crazy risk when you need to keep a criminal plan secret.
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Your Turn, Darling
Title: Your Turn, Darling
Released: September 25, 1963
Type: Movie
In this French espionage thriller, Eddie again plays the role that made him a star, Lemmy Caution. Lots of two fisted action.
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Tales of Paris
Title: Tales of Paris
Released: January 17, 1962
Type: Movie
A film made up of four sketches. In Marc Allégret's Sophie, a naive high-school girl invents a love affair with her mother's lover. But it's a guitarist with whom she falls in love. In Françoise, by Claude Barma, a young woman returning to France after living in the United States has an affair with her best friend's lover. In Antonia, by Michel Boisrond, a middle-aged woman tries to convince her ex-lover that she still has many assets to seduce. In Ella, by Jacques Poitrenaud, a Pigalle dancer meets a man in a cab.
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Dynamite Jack
Title: Dynamite Jack
Released: November 3, 1961
Type: Movie
Antoine Espérandieu, a French tenderfoot, lands in Windows Canyon, Arizona, a remote place under the thumb of dangerous outlaw Dynamite Jack, only to discover the friend he was to meet there has been murdered. Worse, it is not long before Antoine realizes he is Jack's perfect lookalike. All the same, he decides to settle down in the small town, where he becomes the local tax collector. One day, he finds himself face to face with the bandit...
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Once More, with Feeling!
Title: Once More, with Feeling!
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
Released: February 11, 1960
Type: Movie
The wife of brilliant, but boisterous and ill-tempered conductor of the London Symphony puts up with his childishness, but the last straw is drawn when he begins an affair with a young pianist.