William Hoyland

William Hoyland

Born: January 1, 1943
Died: January 1, 2017
in Edgbaston, Birmingham, England, UK
William Hoyland was born in 1943 in Edgbaston, Birmingham, England. He was an actor, known for Hellboy (2004), For Your Eyes Only (1981) and Gandhi (1982). He was married to Carole De Jong. He died in July 2017 in the UK

Movies for William Hoyland...

Title: Man in an Orange Shirt
Character: Headmaster
Released: July 31, 2017
Type: TV
A love story in two films charts the very different challenges to happiness for Michael and Thomas in the aftermath of World War 2, and to Adam and Steve in the present day.
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Title: Call the Midwife
Character: Dr. Godfrey
Released: January 15, 2012
Type: TV
Drama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of London during the 1950s, based on the best-selling memoirs of Jennifer Worth.
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A Mighty Heart
Title: A Mighty Heart
Character: John Bauman
Released: June 22, 2007
Type: Movie
Based on Mariane Pearl's account of the terrifying and unforgettable story of her husband, Wall Street Journal reporter Danny Pearl's life and death.
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Scoop
Title: Scoop
Character: Butler
Released: July 27, 2006
Type: Movie
An American journalism student in London scoops a big story, and begins an affair with an aristocrat as the incident unfurls.
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Title: Life on Mars
Character: Superintendent Rathbone
Released: January 9, 2006
Type: TV
A detective chief inspector from 2006 is investigating a serial killer when he is knocked over by a speeding car. Waking up, he finds himself mysteriously transported back in time to 1973. Initially struggling to come to terms with his situation, he has to come to terms with the old-fashioned technology and attitude of the day, while figuring out how he came to be trapped in the past.
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Hunt for Justice
Title: Hunt for Justice
Character: Judge Manet
Released: June 6, 2005
Type: Movie
The heroic struggle of Canadian Louise Arbour, Chief War Crimes Prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, as she battles world politics and fierce opposition to indict Slobodan Milosevic for crimes against humanity.
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Title: The Thick of It
Character: Lord Goolding
Released: May 19, 2005
Type: TV
Set in the corridors of power and spin, the Minister for Social Affairs is continually harassed by Number 10's policy enforcer and dependent on his not-so-reliable team of civil servants.
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Hellboy
Title: Hellboy
Character: General Klaus Werner von Krupt
Released: April 2, 2004
Type: Movie
In the final days of World War II, the Nazis attempt to use black magic to aid their dying cause. The Allies raid the camp where the ceremony is taking place, but not before they summon a baby demon who is rescued by Allied forces and dubbed "Hellboy". Sixty years later, Hellboy serves the cause of good rather than evil as an agent in the Bureau of Paranormal Research & Defense, along with Abe Sapien - a merman with psychic powers, and Liz Sherman - a woman with pyrokinesis, protecting America against dark forces.
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Dead Gorgeous
Title: Dead Gorgeous
Character: Senior Civil Servant
Released: October 21, 2002
Type: Movie
Rose and Antonia are two old friends who meet up again after the second world war. Unhappy in their relationships, they plan to 'accidentally' murder each others husbands.
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Plain Jane
Title: Plain Jane
Character: Rev Barlow
Released: May 27, 2002
Type: Movie
Drama set in 1911 about a love triangle concerning a father, his son and their maid, Jane.
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Tube Tales
Title: Tube Tales
Character: Suicide Victim (segment "My Father The Liar")
Released: November 19, 1999
Type: Movie
Nine short stories based on the true experiences of London Underground passengers: "Mr. Cool" (Amy Jenkins, dir.); "Horny" (Stephen Hopkins); "Grasshopper" (Menhaj Huda); "My Father the Liar" (Bob Hoskins); "Bone" (Ewan McGregor); "Mouth" (Armando Iannucci); "A Bird in the Hand" (Jude Law); "Rosebud" (Gaby Dellal); "Steal Away" (Charles McDougall)
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All the King's Men
Title: All the King's Men
Character: Lt. Col Proctor Beauchamp
Released: November 14, 1999
Type: Movie
Feature-length drama about the mystery of Sandringham Company, which disappeared in action at Gallipoli in 1915. Commanded by Captain Frank Beck, their estate manager, the men advanced into battle, were enveloped in a strange mist and never seen again.
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Half The Picture
Title: Half The Picture
Character: John Major / Paul Henderson
Released: February 18, 1996
Type: Movie
A dramatized account of the Scott Inquiry about the sales of arms to Iraq.
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A Very Open Prison
Title: A Very Open Prison
Character: Arthur Hare
Released: December 9, 1995
Type: Movie
The Home Secretary has his eye on the Prime Minister's job. But an experiment in the way the prisons are run leads to embarrassment - and escaped murderers! The fore runner of Crossing The Floor
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Dark Obsession
Title: Dark Obsession
Character: Inspector Orchard
Released: June 8, 1990
Type: Movie
Hugo Buckton seems to have it all: He is apparently rich and has a beautiful wife and a doting son. In actuality, though, Hugo is having money problems and is paranoid that his wife is cheating on him. After a boozy night at a party, Hugo hits and kills a woman with his car -- and at his friends' urging, keeps driving. When Hugo starts receiving letters from someone who knows about the accident, he begins to suspect that he has been set up.
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Resurrected
Title: Resurrected
Character: Captain Sinclair
Released: March 12, 1989
Type: Movie
A Falklands War soldier missing, believed dead, turns up claiming amnesia.
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Birth of a Nation
Title: Birth of a Nation
Character: Mr James
Released: June 19, 1983
Type: Movie
A new teacher at a highly problematic comprehensive school feels that corporal punishment may just be inflaming the problems, and so begins to campaign against it.
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Return of the Jedi
Title: Return of the Jedi
Character: Imperial Commander (uncredited) (unconfirmed)
Released: May 25, 1983
Type: Movie
Luke Skywalker leads a mission to rescue his friend Han Solo from the clutches of Jabba the Hutt, while the Emperor seeks to destroy the Rebellion once and for all with a second dreaded Death Star.
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Gandhi
Title: Gandhi
Character: Adjutant
Released: December 1, 1982
Type: Movie
In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence. Faced with armed resistance from the British government, Gandhi adopts a policy of 'passive resistance', endeavouring to win freedom for his people without resorting to bloodshed.
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For Your Eyes Only
Title: For Your Eyes Only
Character: McGregor
Released: June 24, 1981
Type: Movie
A British spy ship has sunk and on board was a hi-tech encryption device. James Bond is sent to find the device that holds British launching instructions before the enemy Soviets get to it first.
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Title: Edward and Mrs Simpson
Character: Lord Perry Brownlow
Released: November 8, 1978
Type: TV
While still the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII meets the married American socialite, Wallis Simpson. Their relationship causes furor in the palace and in parliament, especially when King George V dies, Mrs. Simpson gets divorced, and King Edward announces his intention to marry her.
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Edward & Mrs. Simpson
Title: Edward & Mrs. Simpson
Character: Lord Perry Brownlow
Released: November 6, 1978
Type: Movie
While still the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII meets the married American socialite, Wallis Simpson. Their relationship causes furor in the palace and in parliament, especially when King George V dies, Mrs. Simpson gets divorced, and King Edward announces his intentions to marry her.
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Title: All Creatures Great and Small
Character: Mr. Blenkinsopp
Released: January 8, 1978
Type: TV
All Creatures Great and Small is a British television series, based on the books of the British veterinary surgeon Alf Wight, who wrote under the pseudonym James Herriot. Ninety episodes were aired over two three-year runs. The first run was based directly on Herriot's books; the second was filmed with original scripts.
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A Choice of Evils
Title: A Choice of Evils
Character: Volponi's Secretary
Released: April 19, 1977
Type: Movie
Cardinal Volponi tries to save his old friend, a priest-turned-militant communist, from being executed by the Nazis alongside 334 other hostages but struggles to reason with either the Vatican, the Nazis or his friend.
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Ready When You Are, Mr McGill
Title: Ready When You Are, Mr McGill
Character: Bernard
Released: January 11, 1976
Type: Movie
A film extra has won a chance for the big break in his career. He has two crucial lines in a television film, but nothing goes according to plan.
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Kill Two Birds
Title: Kill Two Birds
Released: October 28, 1975
Type: Movie
Two female tourists are taken hostage by an ex-con attempting to recover money he once robbed from a bank.
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Sunset Across the Bay
Title: Sunset Across the Bay
Character: Doctor
Released: February 20, 1975
Type: Movie
A married couple, after a life time of work and bringing up a family, retire and awaken to the fast changing world around them, the habitual nature of their relationship, and what they have left.
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Blooming Youth
Title: Blooming Youth
Released: June 18, 1973
Type: Movie
An improvised character piece, overseen by Les Blair and Tony Garnett set in the everyday life of a group of polytechnic students.
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Not Counting the Savages
Title: Not Counting the Savages
Released: January 2, 1972
Type: Movie
Directed by Mike Newell.
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On Reflection: B.S. Johnson on Dr. Samuel Johnson
Title: On Reflection: B.S. Johnson on Dr. Samuel Johnson
Released: January 2, 1972
Type: Movie
Directed by B.S. Johnson.
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Skinflicker
Title: Skinflicker
Character: Georgie
Released: January 1, 1972
Type: Movie
This chilling and provocative faux home movie presents the story of three dissidents and their plan to commit a revolutionary act on film. Bicât and scriptwriter Howard Brenton explore the consequences and co-option of political violence with hard, grubby directness and a pre-punk, semi-nihilistic attack on bourgeois values.
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The Ragman's Daughter
Title: The Ragman's Daughter
Character: Borstal Barber
Released: January 1, 1972
Type: Movie
Based on the Alan Sillitoe short story. Tony, a worker at a cheese factory, is also a petty thief. He moves from robbery after robbery until he meets Doris, the daughter of the local ragman. Slowly, he falls in love with her and must decide whether he will stay a thief or start a new life with Doris.
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Poem
Title: Poem
Character: voiceover
Released: November 15, 1971
Type: Movie
A poignant short film set to the fourth part of Samuel Beckett's Quatre Poèmes, as narrated by frequent BS Johnson collaborator William Hoyland. The poem is read against a backdrop of associative shots: the head and sholders of a woman, a crumbling Victorian chimney stack, a forlorn row of houses, cobblestones, discarded rubbish, and a final tracking shot of a high wall.
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Assault
Title: Assault
Character: Chemist in Hospital
Released: February 11, 1971
Type: Movie
After a schoolgirl is raped while taking a short cut through the local woods, and another murdered a few days later, the police are baffled. With the help of a reporter, and against the wishes of a local psychologist, a young schoolteacher uses herself as bait to lure the perpetrator out.
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Paradigm
Title: Paradigm
Character: Man
Released: November 15, 1969
Type: Movie
William Hoyland stars as a nameless protagonist who speaks to the camera in a fabricated language and, though the course of the film, transforms from young and verbose, to old and inarticulate.
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The Unfortunates
Title: The Unfortunates
Released: January 2, 1969
Type: Movie
Directed by B.S. Johnson.
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You're Human Like the Rest of Them
Title: You're Human Like the Rest of Them
Character: Haakon
Released: May 29, 1967
Type: Movie
After treatment for a slipped disc in a London hospital, a teacher struggles to convey his thoughts on mortality to his class and fellow staff.