Richard Pescud

Richard Pescud

Born: February 1, 1928
Died: April 5, 2003
in Edmonton, London, England
Actor best known as the hospital consultant who bursts out in song in The Singing Detective.

Movies for Richard Pescud...

Everyday Something: True Stories from the 21st Century
Title: Everyday Something: True Stories from the 21st Century
Character: Father
Released: December 31, 2001
Type: Movie
Based on the filmmaker's collection of newspaper cuttings the film presents private moments that give strange glimpses into everyday life.
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A Safe House
Title: A Safe House
Character: DCS Sinmans
Released: August 22, 1990
Type: Movie
In the aftermath of the Guildford and Woolwich pub bombings, a large number of people of Irish descent were rounded up for questioning by the police in London. Most were subsequently released. But for the Maguire family, 3 December 1974 was the start of a nightmare that is only now ending.
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One Way Out
Title: One Way Out
Character: Cochrane
Released: September 10, 1989
Type: Movie
James Carlisle is a successful architect who sees his children every weekend following his divorce from Lyn. When Lyn falls in love with the unstable Bernard, James is forced to take drastic action.
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The Silent Twins
Title: The Silent Twins
Character: Psychiatrist
Released: January 19, 1986
Type: Movie
Twins June and Jennifer Gibbons speak only to each other in a language of their own creation. As young teens, they commit a violent crime. After 14 years in Broadmoor Psychiatric Institution, freedom visits them in a mysterious way.
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Top Secret!
Title: Top Secret!
Character: Priest
Released: June 8, 1984
Type: Movie
Popular and dashing American singer Nick Rivers travels to East Germany to perform in a music festival. When he loses his heart to the gorgeous Hillary Flammond, he finds himself caught up in an underground resistance movement. Rivers joins forces with Agent Cedric and Flammond to attempt the rescue of her father, Dr. Paul, from the Germans, who have captured the scientist in hopes of coercing him into building a new naval mine.
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Murder by Decree
Title: Murder by Decree
Character: Doctor
Released: February 1, 1979
Type: Movie
Sherlock Holmes is drawn into the case of Jack the Ripper who is killing prostitutes in London's East End. Assisted by Dr. Watson, and using information provided by a renowned psychic, Robert Lees, Holmes finds that the murders may have its roots in a Royal indiscretion and that a cover-up is being managed by politicians at the highest level, all of whom happen to be Masons.
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Hitler: The Last Ten Days
Title: Hitler: The Last Ten Days
Character: Von Below
Released: April 19, 1973
Type: Movie
Hitler: The Last Ten Days takes us into the depths of der Furher’s Berlin bunker during his final days. Based on the book by Gerhard Boldt, it provides a bleak look at the goings-on within, and without.
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The Trouble with 2b: Part One, Happy Days
Title: The Trouble with 2b: Part One, Happy Days
Character: Mr Swindon
Released: January 1, 1972
Type: Movie
A series of six short films concerning the adventures of form 2B and their inventive science master, Mr Potter
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Title: Justice
Character: Mr. Martin
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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Rumour
Title: Rumour
Released: March 2, 1970
Type: Movie
A hard-bitten newspaper reporter is drawn back into the world of sleaze he had hoped to have left behind, and this time it goes right to the top.
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Bam! Pow! Zap!
Title: Bam! Pow! Zap!
Character: Mike's father
Released: March 5, 1969
Type: Movie
A young man bitterly regrets his part in an attack on a bank cashier.