Anthony Nicholls

Anthony Nicholls

Born: October 16, 1902
Died: February 22, 1977
in Windsor, Berkshire, England, UK
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Anthony Nicholls  (16 October 1902 – 22 February 1977) was an English film, television, and stage actor.

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Title: The Crezz
Released: September 16, 1976
Type: TV
The Crezz is a British television drama produced by Thames Television and shown on the ITV network in 1976. Created by Clive Exton, The Crezz was set in a fictitious West London crescent, Carlisle Crescent. The series was 12 one-hour programmes each focused on a different household.The series was broadcast on ITV at 9pm to start with but midway through it was put back to 10.35pm because the series didn't quite get the viewing figures that were hoped for.
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The Omen
Title: The Omen
Character: Dr. Becker
Released: June 25, 1976
Type: Movie
Immediately after their miscarriage, the US diplomat Robert Thorn adopts the newborn Damien without the knowledge of his wife. Yet what he doesn’t know is that their new son is the son of the devil.
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Title: Space: 1999
Character: James Warren
Released: September 4, 1975
Type: TV
The crew of Moonbase Alpha must struggle to survive when a massive explosion throws the Moon from orbit into deep space.
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King Lear
Title: King Lear
Character: Earl of Gloucester
Released: March 23, 1975
Type: Movie
King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter the old man in return for favor, he banishes her and turns for support to his remaining daughters. But Goneril and Regan have no love for him and instead plot to take all his power from him. In a parallel, Lear's loyal courtier Gloucester favors his illegitimate son Edmund after being told lies about his faithful son Edgar. Madness and tragedy befall both ill-starred fathers.
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The Breakthrough
Title: The Breakthrough
Character: Sir John Fowler
Released: January 8, 1975
Type: Movie
An adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's 1966 short story of the same title, broadcast as part of the BBC's "BBC2 Playhouse".
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O Lucky Man!
Title: O Lucky Man!
Character: General/Judge
Released: March 25, 1973
Type: Movie
This sprawling, surrealist comedy serves as an allegory for the pitfalls of capitalism, as it follows the adventures of a young coffee salesman in modern Britain.
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Title: The Adventurer
Character: Samuel Cookson
Released: September 29, 1972
Type: TV
The Adventurer is an ITC Entertainment TV adventure series created by Dennis Spooner that ran for one season from 1972 to 1973. It premiered in the UK on 29 September 1972. The show starred Gene Barry as Gene Bradley, a government agent of independent means who poses as a glamorous American movie star.
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The Man Who Haunted Himself
Title: The Man Who Haunted Himself
Character: Sir Arthur Richardson
Released: September 17, 1970
Type: Movie
Executive Harold Pelham suffers a serious accident after which he faces the shadow of death. When, against all odds, he miraculously recovers, he discovers that his life does not belong to him anymore.
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One More Time
Title: One More Time
Character: Candler
Released: May 1, 1970
Type: Movie
London nightclub buddies Salt and Pepper link Pepper's dead twin to diamond smugglers.
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The Walking Stick
Title: The Walking Stick
Character: Lewis Maud
Released: April 15, 1970
Type: Movie
A young woman's highly ordered and structured life is turned upside-down when she meets a handsome stranger at a party. Friendship soon develops into romance and for the first time in her life she is truly happy. This happiness is short lived, however, as little by little she discovers her partner has been lying to her about his past. It is soon revealed that he and his friends have been planning to rob the auction house that she works for and they require her inside knowledge in order to pull off the crime.
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A Walk with Love and Death
Title: A Walk with Love and Death
Character: Father Superior
Released: October 5, 1969
Type: Movie
Attempting to evade the turmoil of France's Hundred Years' War, Parisian student Heron of Foix decides to journey to the sea. En route, he meets the pretty aristocrat Lady Claudia, and the couple begin a romance amid the intense conflict. As the struggle between peasants and noblemen rages on, Heron and Claudia take shelter at a monastery -- but even their newfound love can't completely keep the horrors of war at bay.
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Title: Department S
Character: Dr. Grant
Released: September 9, 1969
Type: TV
Department S is a United Kingdom spy-fi adventure series produced by ITC Entertainment. The series consists of 28 episodes which originally aired in 1969–1970. It starred Peter Wyngarde as author Jason King, Joel Fabiani as Stewart Sullivan, and Rosemary Nicols as computer expert Annabelle Hurst. The trio were agents for a fictional special department of Interpol. The head of Department S was Sir Curtis Seretse.
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Title: if....
Character: General Denson
Released: December 19, 1968
Type: Movie
In an English boys' boarding school, social hierarchy reigns supreme and power remains in the hands of distanced and ineffectual teachers and callously vicious prefects in the Upper Sixth. Three Lower Sixth students, Wallace, Johnny and leader Mick Travis decide on a shocking course of action to redress the balance of privilege once and for all.
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The Explorer
Title: The Explorer
Character: John C. Hamilton
Released: October 14, 1968
Type: Movie
Drama about the emotional problems left behind by a young explorer murdered in the Matto Grosso jungle in South America. (Shotlist)Work historyTV play. Second part of writer Kenneth Jupp's "Chelsea Trilogy"; see also The PHOTOGRAPHER (tx 29/1/1968) and The TYCOON (tx 30/12/1968).
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Title: The Champions
Character: Cmdr. W.L. Tremayne
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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Our Mother's House
Title: Our Mother's House
Character: Mr. Halbert
Released: September 14, 1967
Type: Movie
Seven British children bury their mother and hide her death, until their long-lost father returns.
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Title: Callan
Released: July 8, 1967
Type: TV
Callan is the title of a British television series set in the murky world of espionage. Originally produced by ABC Weekend Television and later Thames Television, it was aired on the ITV network over four seasons spread out between 1967 and 1972. The series starred Edward Woodward as David Callan, a reluctant professional killer for a shadowy branch of the British Government's intelligence services known as 'the Section'.
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Mister Ten Per Cent
Title: Mister Ten Per Cent
Character: Casey
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
Percy Pointer's passion in life is the theatre, and all his spare time is devoted to the play he is writing.When it's finished it arrives on the desk of a London impresario, at a time when he wants to stage a flop.
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A Man for All Seasons
Title: A Man for All Seasons
Character: King's Representative
Released: December 13, 1966
Type: Movie
A depiction of the conflict between King Henry VIII of England and his Lord Chancellor, Sir Thomas More, who refuses to swear the Oath of Supremacy declaring Henry Supreme Head of the Church in England.
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Othello
Title: Othello
Character: Brabantio
Released: December 15, 1965
Type: Movie
General Othello's marriage is destroyed when vengeful Ensign Iago convinces him that his new wife has been unfaithful.
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The Pumpkin Eater
Title: The Pumpkin Eater
Character: Surgeon
Released: July 16, 1964
Type: Movie
Jo, the mother of seven children, divorces her second husband in order to marry Jake, a successful but promiscuous screenwriter. Though they are physically and emotionally compatible, they are slowly torn apart.
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Title: The Saint
Character: Lord Cranmore
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: George Marsh
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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Night of the Eagle
Title: Night of the Eagle
Character: Harvey Sawtelle
Released: April 25, 1962
Type: Movie
A skeptical college professor discovers that his wife has been practicing magic for years. Like the learned, rational fellow he is, he forces her to destroy all her magical charms and protective devices, and stop that foolishness. He isn't put off by her insistence that his professional rivals are working magic against him, and her protections are necessary to his career and life.
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The Horsemasters
Title: The Horsemasters
Character: Hardy Cole
Released: October 1, 1961
Type: Movie
American students are having a difficult time at a prestigious English riding school. Dinah Wilcox is overly cautious because of memories of an accident, but Danny Grant gives her confidence. The strict, but admired, instructor fears she must sell her favorite horse because of school tradition, but the students end up taking up a collection to buy it back for her.
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Victim
Title: Victim
Character: Lord Charles Fullbrook
Released: August 1, 1961
Type: Movie
Barrister Melville Farr is on the path to success. With his practice winning cases and a loving marriage to his wife, Farr's career and personal life are nearly idyllic. However, when blackmailers link the secretly closeted Farr to a young gay man, everything Farr has worked for is threatened. But instead of giving in, Farr decides to fight.
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Seven Keys
Title: Seven Keys
Character: Governor
Released: February 1, 1961
Type: Movie
Alan Dobie plays a convict who is bequeathed a set of seven keys by a fellow prisoner. After discovering that the deceased was an embezzler who stole £20,000 that was never recovered; he sets out to find the cash after finishing the last three months of his sentence. However he must first solve the mystery of which locks the keys fit, and run the gauntlet of the police and a number of gangsters who are after him and the money.
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Title: The Avengers
Character: Ardmore
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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Dunkirk
Title: Dunkirk
Character: Military Spokesman
Released: March 20, 1958
Type: Movie
A British Corporal in France finds himself responsible for the lives of his men when their officer is killed. He has to get them back to Britain somehow. Meanwhile, British civilians are being dragged into the war with Operation Dynamo, the scheme to get the French and British forces back from the Dunkirk beaches. Some come forward to help, others were less willing.
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The Safecracker
Title: The Safecracker
Character: General Prior
Released: March 5, 1958
Type: Movie
Safe cracker, Colley Dawson, is recruited to steal a list of Nazi agents from a safe in a Nazi occupied chateau in Belgium.
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Make Me an Offer!
Title: Make Me an Offer!
Character: Auctioneer
Released: December 8, 1954
Type: Movie
A struggling antiques dealer (Peter Finch) thinks he has found the answer to his problems when he stumbles across a precious vase amid a range of other less desirable items. The trouble is, the owners of the vase are pretty shrewd themselves and are not keen on letting it go for a song - meaning that our hapless chap has to pull out every trick in the book in order to win his prize.
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Happy Ever After
Title: Happy Ever After
Character: Solicitor
Released: June 29, 1954
Type: Movie
The whole village mourns when General O'Leary, owner of a hunting estate in South Ireland, is killed in an accident. His nephew, Jasper O'Leary, takes over the state and soon has aroused the displeasure of all, with the exception of Serena McGluskey, as much a schemer as he is a cad. Led by Thady O'Heggarty, the villagers plot to drive Jasper away. They use the occasion of "O'Leary Night", when the ghost of the first O'Leary walks the halls, to create general chaos.
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The Weak and the Wicked
Title: The Weak and the Wicked
Character: Prison Chaplain
Released: February 2, 1954
Type: Movie
Jean Raymond an upper class woman with a gambling addiction, is given a twelve-month prison sentence resulting from her inability to pay her debts. At first she is overwhelmingly depressed by life in the women's prison; gradually, however, her misery is relieved by the many close friends she makes there. This sympathetic drama traces the contrasting lives and often faltering progress of the inmates of a women's prison.
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The House of the Arrow
Title: The House of the Arrow
Character: Lawyer Jarrett
Released: August 1, 1953
Type: Movie
A London solicitor and a French detective investigate the mysterious death of an elderly woman suspected of being poisoned.
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The Woman's Angle
Title: The Woman's Angle
Character: Dr. Nigel Jarvis
Released: February 12, 1952
Type: Movie
The organising force of a family of musical prodigies, Robert Mansell is a frustrated composer in seach of one thing personal happiness. This search, however, has landed him in the divorce courts and the judge's summary does not paint him in a favourable light.
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High Treason
Title: High Treason
Character: Grant Mansfield
Released: November 13, 1951
Type: Movie
Men from Scotland Yard and military intelligence build a dossier on a sabotage ring.
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The Franchise Affair
Title: The Franchise Affair
Character: Kevin McDermott
Released: February 19, 1951
Type: Movie
An English country lawyer weighs the case of a schoolgirl who claims she was kidnapped by two women.
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Portrait of Clare
Title: Portrait of Clare
Character: Dr. Boyd
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: Prince Reinaldt
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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No Place for Jennifer
Title: No Place for Jennifer
Character: Baxter
Released: January 17, 1950
Type: Movie
A young girl goes through the trauma of her parent's divorce and seperate re-marriages.
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The Hasty Heart
Title: The Hasty Heart
Character: Lt. Col. Dunn
Released: September 20, 1949
Type: Movie
In the final days of World War II, in a MASH unit in Burma, a severely wounded corporal watches in dismay as fellow soldiers pack-up to return home but a caring nurse and five remaining soldiers bring him solace.
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Man on the Run
Title: Man on the Run
Character: Wapping Station Inspector
Released: May 20, 1949
Type: Movie
An Army deserter, still a fugitive in Post-War Britain, wanders into a pawn-shop robbery and finds himself wanted for murder. He meets a war widow who helps him elude the police while he looks for the real criminals.
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The Time Machine
Title: The Time Machine
Released: January 24, 1949
Type: Movie
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The Guinea Pig
Title: The Guinea Pig
Character: Mr. Stringer
Released: October 26, 1948
Type: Movie
A working-class boy wins a scholarship to a public school, as part of a post-World War Two experiment in bringing boys of different social classes together.
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The Haunted
Title: The Haunted
Character: Philip Shepley
Released: October 26, 1948
Type: Movie
A ghost haunts the house where he was murdered a hundred years earlier.
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The Laughing Lady
Title: The Laughing Lady
Character: Mr. Pitt
Released: October 16, 1946
Type: Movie
A musical set during the French Revolution.