Jeremy Spenser

Jeremy Spenser

Born: July 16, 1937
in London, England, UK
Jeremy Spenser (born Jeremy John Dornhurst de Saram, 16 July 1937) is a British actor who made his screen debut aged 11 in Anna Karenina (1948).

The following year he played in the black comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets as the young Louis Mazzini. He played the young King Nicolas in The Prince and the Showgirl with Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe, and in Ferry to Hong Kong with Orson Welles.

In the 1960s, the role offers began to slow down. His last film role was in 1966's Fahrenheit 451 directed by François Truffaut. A little later Spenser retired from acting.

He is the brother of British actor, director, producer and writer David Spenser.

[biography from Wikipedia]

Movies for Jeremy Spenser...

Title: Man in a Suitcase
Released: September 27, 1967
Type: TV
Accused of treason, a former U.S. intelligence officer based in London tries to clear his name, taking on freelance jobs around Europe as he searches for answers.
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Fahrenheit 451
Title: Fahrenheit 451
Character: Man with the Apple
Released: September 7, 1966
Type: Movie
In the future, the government maintains control of public opinion by outlawing literature and maintaining a group of enforcers, known as “firemen,” to perform the necessary book burnings. Fireman Montag begins to question the morality of his vocation…
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The Siege of Manchester
Title: The Siege of Manchester
Character: Captain Standish
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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He Who Rides a Tiger
Title: He Who Rides a Tiger
Character: The Panda
Released: October 1, 1965
Type: Movie
Peter Rayston, has been in and out of prison most of his life. At 30, he is released for the eighth time, after serving a sentence for housebreaking. Immediately, he goes back to his old life, providing for his expensive tastes by executing a series of daring burglaries
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Operation Crossbow
Title: Operation Crossbow
Character: SS Officer at Rocket Plant
Released: April 1, 1965
Type: Movie
Allied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets and sabotage the plant.The film alternates between German developments of the V-1 missile and V-2 rocket (with a German cast speaking their own language) and discovery by British Intelligence of the weapon.
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King and Country
Title: King and Country
Character: Pvt. Sparrow
Released: September 5, 1964
Type: Movie
During World War I, Army Private Arthur James Hamp is accused of desertion during battle. The officer assigned to defend him at his court-martial, Captain Hargreaves, finds out there is more to the case than meets the eye.
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Title: The Human Jungle
Character: Jan Zapotski
Released: March 30, 1963
Type: TV
The Human Jungle is a British TV series about a psychiatrist, made for ABC Television by the small production company Independent Artists for transmission on ITV. Starring Herbert Lom, it ran for two series which were first transmitted during 1963 and 1965.
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The Brain
Title: The Brain
Character: Martin Holt
Released: September 5, 1962
Type: Movie
A millionaire businessman's brain is kept alive after a fatal accident, and communicates clues to a doctor on the trail of the killer
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The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
Title: The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
Character: Young Man
Released: December 28, 1961
Type: Movie
Critics and the public say Karen Stone is too old -- as she approaches 50 -- for her role in a play she is about to take to Broadway. Her businessman husband, 20 years her senior, has been the angel for the play and gives her a way out: They are off to a holiday in Rome for his health. He suffers a fatal heart attack on the plane. Mrs. Stone stays in Rome. She leases a magnificent apartment with a view of the seven hills from the terrace. Then the contessa comes calling to introduce a young man named Paolo to her. The contessa knows many presentable young men and lonely American widows.
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Ferry to Hong Kong
Title: Ferry to Hong Kong
Character: Miguel Henriques
Released: October 29, 1959
Type: Movie
Mark Conrad, a habitual drunk and troublemaker with a shady past, is expelled by Hong Kong police after one too many bar fights. He's sent to Macao on the Fa Tsan, a ferry owned by Captain Hart. Conrad's papers are out of order and Macao refuses him entry. Unable to go ashore, Conrad is a permanent passenger on the ferry with Hart, who detests him. It's all one long, lazy voyage for Conrad until one fateful trip when an encounter with a typhoon and pirates forces Conrad to choose between an aimless drifter's life and becoming a man again.
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Title: The Third Man
Released: October 2, 1959
Type: TV
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After the Show
Title: After the Show
Character: Maurice Liebig
Released: September 20, 1959
Type: Movie
Young Victor Liebig returns from the theatre with his eccentric Aunt, when he receives a call summoning them to the flat of his Uncle's suicidal mistress.She's a young, bohemian type and Victor is smitten. She leads him on and he takes her out, but after meeting her friends, realises she's not for him.
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Wonderful Things!
Title: Wonderful Things!
Character: Mario
Released: June 10, 1958
Type: Movie
Set in a beautiful fishing village in Gibraltar, Wonderful Things! stars Frankie Vaughan as Carmello, a young fisherman who, unable to earn enough from fishing to marry his tempestuous fiancée, decides to come to England to seek his fortune and finds fortunes are not quite so easy to come by.
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The Prince and the Showgirl
Title: The Prince and the Showgirl
Character: King Nicolas
Released: June 13, 1957
Type: Movie
An American showgirl becomes entangled in political intrigue when the Prince Regent of a foreign country attempts to seduce her.
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It's Great to be Young!
Title: It's Great to be Young!
Character: Nicky, The Angel Hill Kids
Released: December 26, 1956
Type: Movie
IT’S GREAT TO A YOUNG stars John Mills as Dingle an easygoing high school teacher. When autocratic new headmaster Frome (Cecil Parker) begins imposing all sorts of repressive rules, Dingle does his best to stand up for his students, only to be dismissed for his troubles. The kids conspire to not only reinstate their favourite teacher, but to circumvent Frome's refusal to purchase new instruments for an upcoming music festival.
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Escapade
Title: Escapade
Character: L. W. Daventry
Released: August 5, 1955
Type: Movie
An English pacifist's (John Mills) sons run away from school and hijack a plane to Vienna to petition for peace.
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Summertime
Title: Summertime
Character: Vito de Rossi
Released: June 21, 1955
Type: Movie
Middle-aged Ohio secretary Jane Hudson has never found love and has nearly resigned herself to spending the rest of her life alone. But before she does, she uses her savings to finance a summer in romantic Venice, where she finally meets the man of her dreams, the elegant Renato Di Rossi.
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The Man Who Loved Redheads
Title: The Man Who Loved Redheads
Character: Young Mark
Released: February 6, 1955
Type: Movie
Framed in flashback, The Man Who Loved Redheads is an anecdotal comedy about a man (John Justin) whose life is defined by his first romantic experience. That liaison occurred in Justin's youth, when the young man matures and enters the diplomatic world, he spends the rest of his career searching for his first love.
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Devil on Horseback
Title: Devil on Horseback
Character: Moppy Parfitt
Released: March 17, 1954
Type: Movie
A boy pursues his ambition to be a jockey
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Background
Title: Background
Character: Adrian Lomax
Released: November 9, 1953
Type: Movie
Two years of deterioration sees John and Barbara Lomax's marriage reduced to bitter sniping and "keeping up appearances" for the sake of the children. When John's old friend Bill professes his love for Barbara, the marriage finally breaks up – causing their three children to react in different ways and their son secretly determined to do Bill harm.
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The Planter's Wife
Title: The Planter's Wife
Character: Mat Frazer
Released: December 4, 1952
Type: Movie
The wife of a rubber plantation owner must put her marriage problems on hold when her family is forced to defend themselves during a native uprising.
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Appointment with Venus
Title: Appointment with Venus
Character: Georges
Released: October 8, 1951
Type: Movie
At the outbreak of WWII the British realise they can't prevent the invasion of the Channel Islands. However, someone realises that a prize cow is on the islands and the Nazis mustn't get hold of her. This is the intrepid story of the cow-napping from under the noses of the Nazis.
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Portrait of Clare
Title: Portrait of Clare
Character: Steven Hingston
Released: November 13, 1950
Type: Movie
The three marriages of a woman: a young man who is killed, a priggish lawyer and a sympathetic barrister. From the novel by Francis Brett Young.
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The Dancing Years
Title: The Dancing Years
Character: Maria's Son
Released: July 19, 1950
Type: Movie
The episodic story of a composer of operettas, Rudi Kleiber, in in old Viennese days, and the two women in his life; Maria Zeitler, his sweetheart, later mistress, lost love, an operetta star, and his first patron, and the mother of a son he did not know he had; and of Greta, his first love and companion in later years
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Prelude to Fame
Title: Prelude to Fame
Character: Guido Ferugia
Released: May 2, 1950
Type: Movie
While vacationing in Italy, Nick Morell, son of John Morell, a famous English philosopher and amateur musician and his wife Catherine, becomes friendly with young Guido, and Morell discovers the boy has an extraordinary instinct for orchestration and a phenomenal music memory. A neighboring couple, Signor and Signora Boudini become aware of the boy's talents, and she appeals to his parents to let her educate him musically. Torn by their love for their son and, they feel,the duty to let the world hear his talent, they consent.
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The Spider and the Fly
Title: The Spider and the Fly
Character: Jacques
Released: December 1, 1949
Type: Movie
"The Spider and the Fly is set in Paris during the cloud-cuckoo days before WW I. The storyline intertwines the destinies of three people. Guy Rolfe plays Phillipe de Ledocq, a resourceful safecracker who always manages to elude arrest. Eric Portman is cast as police-chief Maubert, who will not rest until Ledocq is behind bars. And Nadia Gray is Madeleine, the woman beloved by both Ledocq and Maubert. Just as Maubert has managed to capture his man, Ledocq is released at the behest of the government, who wants him to steal secrets from the German embassy revealing the whereabouts of the Kaiser's secret agents. And just how does Madeleine figure into all of this? Spider and the Fly is a diverting precursor to the 1960s TV series It Takes a Thief." ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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Kind Hearts and Coronets
Title: Kind Hearts and Coronets
Character: Young Louis (uncredited)
Released: June 21, 1949
Type: Movie
When his mother eloped with an Italian opera singer, Louis Mazzini was cut off from her aristocratic family. After the family refuses to let her be buried in the family mausoleum, Louis avenges his mother's death by attempting to murder every family member who stands between himself and the family fortune. But when he finds himself torn between his longtime love and the widow of one of his victims, his plans go awry.