Victor Platt

Victor Platt

Born: October 30, 1920
Died: January 30, 2017
in Highbury, London, England, UK

Movies for Victor Platt...

Title: Crown Court
Character: Police Inspector Savage
Released: October 11, 1972
Type: TV
Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the ITV network that ran from 1972, when the Crown Court system replaced Assize courts and Quarter sessions in the legal system of England and Wales, to 1984.
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Title: The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
Character: Sergeant Hawkins
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: The Persuaders!
Character: The Farmer
Released: September 17, 1971
Type: TV
An English aristocrat and an American millionaire come together to tackle crime.
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The Last Train Through Harecastle Tunnel
Title: The Last Train Through Harecastle Tunnel
Character: Mr. Dyson
Released: October 1, 1969
Type: Movie
A young train spotter heads to Staffordshire for a historic journey through a soon to be condemned tunnel. During his trip, he encounters a series of curious characters.
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Title: The Prisoner
Character: Assistant Supervisor
Released: September 29, 1967
Type: TV
After resigning, a secret agent is abducted and taken to what looks like an idyllic village, but is really a bizarre Kafkaesque prison. His warders demand information. He gives them nothing, but only tries to escape.
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Title: Gideon's Way
Character: Chief Insp. Budd
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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The Road
Title: The Road
Character: Lukey Chase
Released: September 29, 1963
Type: Movie
In the late 18th century a small English village is haunted by ghostly apparitions. Sir Timothy Hassall, accompanied by his friend Gideon Cole, investigate.
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Title: The Saint
Character: Charlie Lewis
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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The Traitors
Title: The Traitors
Character: Hent
Released: May 1, 1962
Type: Movie
The cat and mouse game between government agents and a spy ring that has taken secret documents from a plane crash in Germany, not far from an US military research centre.
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The Rebel
Title: The Rebel
Character: Dock Official
Released: March 7, 1961
Type: Movie
Anthony Hancock gives up his office job to become an abstract artist. He has a lot of enthusiasm, but little talent, and critics scorn his work. Nevertheless, he impresses an emerging very talented artist. Hancock proceeds to con the art world into thinking he is a genius.
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Partners in Crime
Title: Partners in Crime
Character: Harold Strickland
Released: February 1, 1961
Type: Movie
British crime film directed by Peter Duffell and starring Bernard Lee, Moira Redmond and John Van Eyssen, loosely based on the 1918 novel "The Man Who Knew" by Edgar Wallace.
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The Cupboard
Title: The Cupboard
Character: Mr Billings
Released: December 11, 1960
Type: Movie
When Fred Watson's wife and landlady disappear, and he is seen papering over two cupboards in his bedroom, the police are called in.
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The Heart of a Man
Title: The Heart of a Man
Character: Bob
Released: August 6, 1959
Type: Movie
Sailor Frankie Martin is offered a thousand pounds by a millionaire in disguise if he can earn a hundred pounds in a week by honest means. Frankie tries his hand as a boxer, a bouncer and a commissionaire, and finally finds success as a singer. He also falls for the charms of night club chanteuse Julie, and this leads to further success when he wins a recording contract.
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Title: Hancock's Half Hour
Released: July 6, 1956
Type: TV
Hancock's Half Hour is a BBC radio comedy, and later television comedy, series of the 1950s and 60s written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. The series starred Tony Hancock, with Sid James; the radio version also co-starred, at various times, Moira Lister, Andrée Melly, Hattie Jacques, Bill Kerr and Kenneth Williams. The final television series, renamed simply Hancock, starred Hancock alone. Comedian Tony Hancock starred in the show, playing an exaggerated and much poorer version of his own character and lifestyle, Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock, a down-at-heel comedian living at the dilapidated 23 Railway Cuttings in East Cheam. The series was influential in the development of the situation comedy, with its move away from radio variety towards a focus on character development.
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Title: The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel
Character: Captain (uncredited)
Released: September 28, 1955
Type: TV
The second collection of short stories written by Baroness Orczy about the gallant English hero, the Scarlet Pimpernel and his League.
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
Title: Nineteen Eighty-Four
Character: Second Man
Released: December 12, 1954
Type: Movie
A man who works for 'The Party' (an all powerful empire led by a man known only as 'Big Brother') begins to have thoughts of rebellion and love for a fellow member. Together they look to help bring down the party.
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The Green Buddha
Title: The Green Buddha
Character: George De Carlo
Released: November 1, 1954
Type: Movie
Yankee charter pilot Morris inadvertently finds himself in the midst of thieves who have purloined a costly antique jade figure from an exhibit. He tracks the thieves to Battersea, where he rescues the fair Germaine from their unsavory clutches, and the Buddha boosters gain only jaded justice.
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Park Plaza 605
Title: Park Plaza 605
Character: Taxi Driver
Released: September 11, 1953
Type: Movie
Suave private investigator Norman Conquest intercepts a secret message and meets a beautiful but foreign blonde lady in room 605 of the Park Plaza hotel. But when Conquest wakes up in the room the next morning he is lying next to a dead body. With the mysterious blonde nowhere to be seen, Conquest soon becomes the police s number one suspect with Inspector Williams following his every move. In order to clear his name, Conquest enlists the help of Pixie Everard (Joy Shelton), but the going gets rough when he discovers that the murder is connected to a stash of stolen diamonds. As gun-happy gangs of communists and Nazi sympathizers turn up the heat, Conquest has to solve the murder whilst staying one step ahead of both the gangs and the police.
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Deadly Nightshade
Title: Deadly Nightshade
Character: Sergeant
Released: March 1, 1953
Type: Movie
Escapee switches identities but finds the new one quite a handful.
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The Drayton Case
Title: The Drayton Case
Character: Drayton
Released: February 1, 1953
Type: Movie
During the early years of World War II, a bomb from a German airplane uncovers the corpse of a strangled woman.
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Emma
Title: Emma
Character: Mr. Perry
Released: May 23, 1948
Type: Movie
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Pygmalion
Title: Pygmalion
Released: February 8, 1948
Type: Movie
Can Professor Higgins transform flower-girl Eliza Dolittle into a great lady?