Roger Delgado

Roger Delgado

Born: March 1, 1918
Died: June 18, 1973
in London, England, UK
Roger Delgado (1 March 1918 - 18 June 1973), full name Roger Caesar Marius Bernard de Delgado Torres Castillo Roberto, was a British actor, who will forever be known for being the first actor to play The Master in Doctor Who. Born in Whitechapel, within the sound of Bow Bells, to a Belgian mother and a Spanish father, Delgado was brought up in Bedford Park and attended the LSE before WWII was declared. His war service saw him rise to the rank of a major, serving with both the Leicestershire Regiment and the Royal Signals, despite his dislike of guns. He made his TV debut in 1948 and starred in several TV and film productions before his untimely death at the age of 55 in a car accident whilst filming the Franco/German TV production La Cloche tibétaine in Turkey. He had married twice, firstly to Olga Anthonisz and then, following his divorce. to Kismet Shahani who survived him.

Movies for Roger Delgado...

The Last Appointment!
Title: The Last Appointment!
Character: Estoban
Released: June 11, 1977
Type: Movie
Two jet-setting playboys, Brett Sinclair and Danny Wilde, investigate crimes. Two episodes of the TV series "The Persuaders" joined into a movie.
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Title: The Zoo Gang
Released: April 5, 1974
Type: TV
Six resistance fighters, known by their animal-based code names, fought during World War II. Their efforts came to a stop when one of their number, "the Wolf", betrayed them to the Gestapo. In their interrogation, one of their number, Claude Roget, the husband of Manouche was shot before her eyes. Thirty years later, Thomas Devon spots the Wolf in his shop. The surviving members of the Zoo Gang drop what they are doing and rendezvous for vengeance. The series follows the adventures of the remaining gang of four resistance fighters reunited 30 years later to scam habitual con artists and criminals in order to take their money and use it for good causes. Despite their ages, they put their skills and experience to use to raise enough money to construct a hospital in the memory of Claude. The gang is aided by the son of Manouche and Claude, an inspector in the French police.
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Doctor Who: Frontier in Space
Title: Doctor Who: Frontier in Space
Character: The Master
Released: March 31, 1973
Type: Movie
In the 26th century, the Doctor and Jo uncover a plot by the Master to provoke an interplanetary war between Earth and Draconia.
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Doctor Who: The Time Monster
Title: Doctor Who: The Time Monster
Character: The Master
Released: June 24, 1972
Type: Movie
The Master, in the guise of Professor Thascalos, has constructed at the Newton Institute in Wootton a device known as TOMTIT - Transmission Of Matter Through Interstitial Time - to gain control over Kronos, a creature from outside time. The creature is summoned but proves to be uncontrollable.
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Doctor Who: The Sea Devils
Title: Doctor Who: The Sea Devils
Character: The Master
Released: April 1, 1972
Type: Movie
The Master joins forces with The Sea Devils to take over the world, unless The Doctor and The Royal Navy can stop them.
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Antony and Cleopatra
Title: Antony and Cleopatra
Character: Soothsayer
Released: March 18, 1972
Type: Movie
Adaptation of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, a historical drama that attempts to bring an epic visual style to the Bard's original stage play. The story concerns Marc Antony's attempts to rule Rome while maintaining a relationship with the queen of Egypt (Hildegarde Neil), which began while Antony was still married. Now he is being forced to marry the sister of his Roman co-leader, and soon the conflict leads to war.
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Title: The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
Character: Silva
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: Estoban
Released: September 17, 1971
Type: TV
An English aristocrat and an American millionaire come together to tackle crime.
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Title: Jason King
Released: September 15, 1971
Type: TV
Jason King - a suavely sophisticated former secret agent turned novelist - travels the world searching for material to fill his books, encountering an endless parade of glamorous women, exotic locales, menacing villains and daring intrigue! Before Austin Powers swung into action, Jason King set the standard for the hip crime-fighting international playboy!
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Doctor Who: The Dæmons
Title: Doctor Who: The Dæmons
Character: The Master
Released: June 19, 1971
Type: Movie
On the eve of May Day, dark elemental forces begin to disturb the village of Devil's End as the Master summons the demon Azal: unexplained murders, a stone gargoyle come to life, and a nigh-impenetrable infernal energy dome. With the Master fully prepared to destroy the Earth, the Doctor and UNIT - aided by a benevolent practitioner of witchcraft - battle the wicked rites of a secret science wielded by an alien from another world.
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Doctor Who: Colony in Space
Title: Doctor Who: Colony in Space
Character: The Master
Released: May 15, 1971
Type: Movie
When the Master steals the Time Lords' secret file on the Doomsday Weapon, they grant the Doctor a temporary reprieve from his exile on Earth to deal with the crisis. He and Jo arrive on the planet Uxarieus and become enmeshed in a struggle between an agrarian colony and a powerful mining corporation.
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Doctor Who: The Claws of Axos
Title: Doctor Who: The Claws of Axos
Character: The Master
Released: April 3, 1971
Type: Movie
A group of gold-skinned aliens known as the Axons land on Earth and offer wondrous technology in exchange for fuel. The Doctor, however, isn't fooled, uncovering the Axons' true nature and once again facing his archenemy the Master...
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Doctor Who: The Mind of Evil
Title: Doctor Who: The Mind of Evil
Character: The Master
Released: March 6, 1971
Type: Movie
Professor Emil Keller has created a machine that can pacify even the most dangerous of criminals. But when the Doctor and Jo arrive at Stangmoor Prison for a demonstration, things start to go horribly wrong - especially when they discover that the Doctor's old enemy the Master is responsible for the machine.
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Doctor Who: Terror of the Autons
Title: Doctor Who: Terror of the Autons
Character: The Master
Released: January 23, 1971
Type: Movie
The Master, an old adversary of the Doctor, has arrived on Earth to destroy humanity with the aid of the Nestene Consciousness and their army of Autons and killer plastic daffodils - unless the Doctor, joined by new assistant Jo Grant, can stop them.
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Underground
Title: Underground
Character: Xavier
Released: October 7, 1970
Type: Movie
An American intelligence agent attempts to kidnap a top Nazi general.
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You Can't Win 'Em All
Title: You Can't Win 'Em All
Character: Capt. Enver (uncredited) (voice)
Released: July 23, 1970
Type: Movie
During the 1922 Turkish Civil War, two Americans and a group of foreign mercenaries offer their services to a local Turkish governor who hires them as guards for a secret transport.
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Title: Codename
Character: Rogov
Released: April 7, 1970
Type: TV
Codename, which premiered in April 1970, was about the secretive MI17 Spy Organisation of the same name based in the residential hall of a Cambridge College. Eventually the series attained a more international flavour, although its base was always in Great Britain. Primarily Codename dealt with the themes of espionage and counter-espionage at the time of the Cold War of the sixties. Its cast contained many of Great Britain's most versatile and talented actors.
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Title: Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)
Character: Tapiro
Released: September 21, 1969
Type: TV
Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) is a British private detective television series. In the initial episode Hopkirk is murdered during an investigation, but returns as a ghost. Randall is the only main character able to see or hear him, although certain minor characters are also able to do so in various circumstances throughout the series.
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The Assassination Bureau
Title: The Assassination Bureau
Character: Bureau Member (uncredited)
Released: March 9, 1969
Type: Movie
In 1908 London, a women's rights campaigner discovers the Assassination Bureau Limited, an organization that kills for justice. When its motives are called into question, she commissions the assassination of its chairman. Knowing that his colleagues have recently become more motivated by greed than morality, he turns the situation into a challenge for his board members: kill him or be killed.
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Title: The Champions
Character: Yussef
Released: September 25, 1968
Type: TV
The Champions is a British espionage/science fiction/occult detective fiction adventure series consisting of 30 episodes broadcast on the UK network ITV during 1968–1969, produced by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment production company. The series was broadcast in the US on NBC, starting in summer 1968.
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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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The Mummy's Shroud
Title: The Mummy's Shroud
Character: Hasmid
Released: March 15, 1967
Type: Movie
Archaeologists discover the final resting place of a boy king, removing the remains to be exhibited in a museum. By disturbing the sarcophagus they unleash the forces of darkness. The Mummy has returned to discharge a violent retribution on the defilers as the curse that surrounds the tomb begins to come true. One by one the explorers are murdered until one of them discovers the ancient words that have the power to reduce the brutal killer to particles of dust.
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The Sandwich Man
Title: The Sandwich Man
Character: Abdul - Carpet Seller
Released: July 1, 1966
Type: Movie
A man with a sandwich-board (advert) wanders around London meeting many strange characters.
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Khartoum
Title: Khartoum
Character: Sheikh Abdul Rahim
Released: June 9, 1966
Type: Movie
English General Charles George Gordon is appointed military governor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by the Prime Minister. Ordered to evacuate Egyptians from the Sudan, Gordon stays on to protect the people of Khartoum, who are under threat of being conquered by a Muslim army.
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Title: BBC Play of the Month
Character: Officer of the Holy Brotherhood
Released: October 19, 1965
Type: TV
Play of the Month is a BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays which were usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stage actors in the leading roles. The series was transmitted from October 1965 to September 1983; the producer most associated with the Play of the Month was Cedric Messina. Some of the 121 episodes are missing from the archives, having been junked in the 1960s and 1970s. Unless stated otherwise, the indication that the play is "lost" is taken from the lostshows.com website page as of 25 May 2013.
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Title: Sherlock Holmes
Character: Moser
Released: May 17, 1964
Type: TV
Sherlock Holmes is a series of Sherlock Holmes adaptations produced by British television company BBC between 1965 and 1968. This was the second screen adaption of Sherlock Holmes for BBC Television.
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Title: The Protectors
Character: Boris Slankin
Released: March 28, 1964
Type: TV
Ex-insurance investigator Ian Souter sets up his own security agency
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Hot Enough for June
Title: Hot Enough for June
Character: Josef
Released: January 1, 1964
Type: Movie
A young man travels to Prague to join his new employer, unaware that he is being used as an espionage courier.
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Title: Doctor Who
Character: The Master
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: Master
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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The Running Man
Title: The Running Man
Character: Spanish Doctor
Released: October 1, 1963
Type: Movie
An Englishman with a grudge against an insurance company for a disallowed claim fakes his own death and escapes to Spain, but is soon pursued by an insurance investigator.
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Title: The Human Jungle
Character: Wirral
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 Mind Benders
Title: The Mind Benders
Character: Dr. Jean Bonvoulois (uncredited)
Released: February 1, 1963
Type: Movie
A British scientist is discovered to have been passing information to the Communists, then kills himself. Another scientist decides that they might have brainwashed him by a sensory deprivation technique, but he doesn’t know if someone really can be convinced to act against their strongest feelings. So he agrees to be the subject in an experiment in which others will try to make him stop loving his wife.
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In Search of the Castaways
Title: In Search of the Castaways
Character: Patagonian prisoner
Released: December 1, 1962
Type: Movie
Two teenagers, Mary (Hayley Mills) and Robert (Keith Hamshere) are lead by Professor Paganel (Maurice Chevalier) on a search expedition for the children's shipwrecked sea captain father. This Disney film was based upon Jules Verne's 1868 adventure novel Captain Grant's Children.
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Title: The Saint
Character: Capt. Rodriguez
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: Hotel Manager
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 Road to Hong Kong
Title: The Road to Hong Kong
Character: Jinnah
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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Title: Z-Cars
Released: January 2, 1962
Type: TV
Z-Cars or Z Cars is a British television drama series centred on the work of mobile uniformed police in the fictional town of Newtown, based on Kirkby, Merseyside. Produced by the BBC, it debuted in January 1962 and ran until September 1978.
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Title: Sir Francis Drake
Character: Spanish Ambassador
Released: November 12, 1961
Type: TV
Sir Francis Drake was a British adventure television series starring Terence Morgan as Sir Francis Drake, commander of the sailing ship the Golden Hind. As well as battles at sea, sword fights, the series also deals with intrigue at Elizabeth's court, often caused by Spaniard, Mendoza.
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Title: Sir Francis Drake
Character: The Governor
Released: November 12, 1961
Type: TV
Sir Francis Drake was a British adventure television series starring Terence Morgan as Sir Francis Drake, commander of the sailing ship the Golden Hind. As well as battles at sea, sword fights, the series also deals with intrigue at Elizabeth's court, often caused by Spaniard, Mendoza.
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Title: Sir Francis Drake
Character: Mendoza
Released: November 12, 1961
Type: TV
Sir Francis Drake was a British adventure television series starring Terence Morgan as Sir Francis Drake, commander of the sailing ship the Golden Hind. As well as battles at sea, sword fights, the series also deals with intrigue at Elizabeth's court, often caused by Spaniard, Mendoza.
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Title: Plateau of Fear
Released: September 24, 1961
Type: TV
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The Terror of the Tongs
Title: The Terror of the Tongs
Character: Tang Hao
Released: March 15, 1961
Type: Movie
In 1910, Hong Kong, under the rule of the British Empire, is a prosperous and bustling city, but, hidden in the shadows of its many narrow streets, the hideous members of the Red Dragon gang, a branch of the evil Chinese secret society of the Tongs, lurk and murder those who oppose to their tyranny, which thrives on vice, crime and the fear of the weakest.
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Title: The Avengers
Character: Kreer
Released: January 7, 1961
Type: TV
The Avengers is a British television series created in the 1960s. It initially focused on Dr. David Keel and his assistant John Steed. Hendry left after the first series and Steed became the main character, partnered with a succession of assistants. His most famous assistants were intelligent, stylish and assertive women: Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King. Later episodes increasingly incorporated elements of science fiction and fantasy, parody and British eccentricity.
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The Singer Not the Song
Title: The Singer Not the Song
Character: Pedro de Cortinez
Released: January 5, 1961
Type: Movie
A Roman Catholic priest defies a Mexican bandit whose gang kills villagers in alphabetical order.
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Title: Maigret
Character: Pepito
Released: October 31, 1960
Type: TV
BBC series based on the novels by Georges Simenon which starred Rupert Davies as Inspector Maigret, a French police detective who preferred to watch and listen in order to solve crimes. The series ran from 1960-63 on British television.
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Sands of the Desert
Title: Sands of the Desert
Character: Abu Nlal
Released: September 8, 1960
Type: Movie
In this British comedy set in Saudi Arabia, a gentle British travel-agency clerk decides that it would be a smashing idea to open up a desert resort in Arabia. He heads to the desert and immediately finds himself on the bad side of a local sheik as the fellow tries to build his resort atop oil-rich land. A war erupts between rival desert bands as they vie for the rights to the oil, but it is the travel agent who wins out in the end
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The Stranglers of Bombay
Title: The Stranglers of Bombay
Character: Bundar (uncredited)
Released: December 4, 1959
Type: Movie
In 1826 British-ruled India, the secret Cult of Thugee demonstrates their worship of their goddess, Kali, by the mutilation and mass murder of thousands of Indians while pirating the shipments of the British East-Indian Tea Company. As the British military leaders play down the implications of the piracy and disappearances, a lone captain realizes that they are not just coincidence and sets out to uncover the source of the deviltry, at the risk of his career. Based on history.
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Title: The Third Man
Released: October 2, 1959
Type: TV
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First Man into Space
Title: First Man into Space
Character: Mexican Consul - Ramon de Guerrera
Released: February 27, 1959
Type: Movie
The first pilot to leave Earth's atmosphere lands, then vanishes; but something with a craving for blood prowls the countryside...
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Mark of the Phoenix
Title: Mark of the Phoenix
Character: Devron
Released: October 31, 1958
Type: Movie
A jewel thief finds himself a target when a smuggled cigarette case made from a stolen new metal falls into his hands.
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Title: The Adventures of William Tell
Released: September 15, 1958
Type: TV
The Adventures of William Tell is a British swashbuckler adventure series, first broadcast on the ITV network in 1958, and produced by ITC Entertainment.
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Sea Fury
Title: Sea Fury
Character: Salgado
Released: August 26, 1958
Type: Movie
The captain of a tugboat harboured off a Spanish village is lured into a romantic involvement with a young girl at the behest of her father, in the hope of getting his hands on the vessel. Meanwhile, a handsome English sailor, signs on to the boat and before long he and the girl fall for one another. Meanwhile a sinking freighter carrying explosive cargo has to be salvaged....
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Man in the Shadow
Title: Man in the Shadow
Character: Alberto (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1957
Type: Movie
The wife of a condemned man tries to save him in England by finding the real killer.
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Manuela
Title: Manuela
Character: Stranger
Released: July 18, 1957
Type: Movie
James Prothero, forty-three years old and up to his ears in alcohol, is the skipper of a tramp ship due to leave South America for Britain – and he’s sick to death of carting goods back and forth across the world. Then he meets Manuela, a beautiful native girl smuggled on board by one of his crew, and comes to realise that she, too, is a lost soul. Gradually a love affair develops between them, and Prothero becomes dangerously blind to the responsibilities of his position.
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The Case of The Smiling Widow
Title: The Case of The Smiling Widow
Character: Commissario
Released: January 1, 1957
Type: Movie
From the case files of Scotland Yard, detectives investigate the mysterious death of Peter Adams, artist and possible forger.
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The Battle of the River Plate
Title: The Battle of the River Plate
Character: Captain Varela, Uruguayan Navy
Released: October 30, 1956
Type: Movie
In the early years of the World War II, the Royal Navy is fighting a desperate battle to keep the Atlantic convoy routes open to supply the British Isles, facing the great danger posed by the many German warships, such as the Admiral Graf Spee, which are scouring the ocean for cargo ships to sink.
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Title: The Buccaneers
Character: Don Ferdinand Esteban
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 Buccaneers
Character: Capt. Mendoza
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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Bhowani Junction
Title: Bhowani Junction
Character: Train Driver
Released: May 1, 1956
Type: Movie
Anglo-Indian Victoria Jones seeks her true identity amid the chaos of the British withdrawal from India.
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The Advancing Shadow
Title: The Advancing Shadow
Character: Talibh
Released: March 8, 1956
Type: Movie
1950s BBC Drama
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Storm Over the Nile
Title: Storm Over the Nile
Character: Native Spy
Released: December 26, 1955
Type: Movie
In 1885, while his regiment is sent to the Sudan to battle the rebellious Dervish tribes, British Lieutenant Harry Faversham resigns his officer's commission in order to remain with his fiancée Mary Burroughs in England. His friends and fellow officers John Durrance, Peter Burroughs and Tom Willoughby brand him a coward and present him with the white feathers of cowardice. His fiancée, Mary, adds a fourth feather and breaks off their engagement. However, former Lieutenant Faversham decides to regain his honor by fighting in the Sudan incognito.
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Title: Quatermass II
Character: Hugh Conrad
Released: October 22, 1955
Type: TV
The serial sees Professor Bernard Quatermass of the British Experimental Rocket Group being asked to examine strange meteorite showers. His investigations lead to his uncovering a conspiracy involving alien infiltration at the highest levels of the British Government. As even some of Quatermass's closest colleagues fall victim to the alien influence, he is forced to use his own unsafe rocket prototype, which recently caused a nuclear disaster at an Australian testing range, to prevent the aliens from taking over mankind.
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Title: The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel
Character: Andre
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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Title: The Adventures of Robin Hood
Character: Ambassador
Released: September 26, 1955
Type: TV
The legendary character Robin Hood and his band of merry men in Sherwood Forest and the surrounding vicinity. While some episodes dramatised the traditional Robin Hood tales, most episodes were original dramas created by the show's writers and producers.
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Third Party Risk
Title: Third Party Risk
Character: Detective Gonzales
Released: October 8, 1954
Type: Movie
Vacationing at a resort hotel in Spain, a man discovers he is the only one not mixed up one way or another in murder, drugs and microfilm smuggling. But, the police are after him!
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Beautiful Stranger
Title: Beautiful Stranger
Character: Police Officer
Released: July 13, 1954
Type: Movie
An ex-chorus girl lives on the Riviera, supported by a married man she doesn't know is a crook.
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Blood Orange
Title: Blood Orange
Character: Marlowe
Released: October 10, 1953
Type: Movie
Discharged by his employer, a private eye stays on a jewel theft case after a model with information for him is murdered.
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The Captain's Paradise
Title: The Captain's Paradise
Character: Kalikan Policeman
Released: September 28, 1953
Type: Movie
Mediterranean ferryboat captain Henry St James has things well organized - a loving and very English wife Maud in Gibraltar, and the loving if rather more hot-blooded Mistress, Nita in Tangiers. A perfect life. As long as neither woman decides to follow him to the other port.
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The Broken Horseshoe
Title: The Broken Horseshoe
Character: Felix Galegos
Released: January 10, 1953
Type: Movie
When a hit and run patient is murdered an attending doctor is placed under suspicion.