Martin Potter

Martin Potter

Born: October 4, 1944
in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, UK
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Martin Potter (born 4 October 1944) is a British actor. After the National Youth Theatre and repertory theatre in Guildford and Hampstead, Potter received his first role in British television at the age of 24 in the television drama The Bonegrinder (1968) written by Dennis Potter. In the same year he had another small part alongside Brian Cox in the futuristic drama The Year of the Sex Olympics. One year later Potter's career took off with a much larger role. The Italian director Federico Fellini chose him for the main role of Encolpius in his film Satyricon. Terence Stamp, Fellini's original choice for the main role, was not available, and Fellini was looking for someone of a similar appearance. After this star role, Potter's career tended back to smaller roles again: mostly B-movies and television productions like the film adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's Olive. Among his more well-known parts are the history film Nicholas and Alexandra (1971) and the film The Big Sleep (with Robert Mitchum as private detective Philip Marlowe). He also appeared in horror films, including Craze with Jack Palance, and television series such as Doctor Who. In 1975 he achieved some popularity with the title part of Robin Hood in a TV mini-series The Legend of Robin Hood. In 1985 he again took a part in a production concerning Ancient Rome: the American mini-series A.D. in which he portrayed the Roman politician and opponent of Nero, Gaius Calpurnius Piso.

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Movies for Martin Potter...

The Outsiders
Title: The Outsiders
Character: Cardinal
Released: October 3, 2006
Type: Movie
The mysterious Nathan Hyde is lured out of hiding by the glamorous Erica, a reluctant employee of a global organisation known as The Establishment. Hyde's particular skills are required to recover a priceless Rubens painting stolen from the Catholic Church, but his assistance is only secured when his daughter's safety is assured.
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Gunpowder
Title: Gunpowder
Character: Powder
Released: January 2, 1986
Type: Movie
Dr. Vache (Miller) has a plan to destroy the world's economy by flooding it with gold. Two spies, Gunn and Powder (Potter and Gilliam) are on a mission to save it.
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Title: A.D.
Character: Gaius Calpurnius Piso
Released: March 31, 1985
Type: TV
A 12 hours miniseries adapted from Anthony Burgess's novel The Kingdom of the Wicked.
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Doctor Who: Terminus
Title: Doctor Who: Terminus
Character: Eirak
Released: February 23, 1983
Type: Movie
The TARDIS attaches itself to a space liner after Turlough, still under the Black Guardian's influence, damages its controls. The Doctor and Nyssa meet two space pirates, Kari and Olvir, who have come on board the liner in search of plunder, while Tegan and Turlough get lost in the infrastructure. The liner docks with what appears to be a hulk floating in space. This is Terminus, which claims to offer a cure for Lazar's disease. It is crewed by armoured slave workers, the Vanir. The cure is administered by a huge, dog-like creature known as the Garm. Nyssa, who has contracted the disease from sufferers transported aboard the liner, discovers that the cure - involving exposure to radiation - does actually work.
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Summer School
Title: Summer School
Character: Tarzan
Released: January 31, 1983
Type: Movie
A motley band of suburbanites arrives at a summer school to simulate life in an Iron Age village. However, the village is right in the middle of a modern university campus which somewhat detracts from its air of authenticity.
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Title: The Comic Strip Presents...
Character: Tarzan
Released: November 2, 1982
Type: TV
The Comic Strip is a group of British comedians, who came to prominence in the 1980s. They are known for their television series The Comic Strip Presents... which was labelled as an example of alternative comedy. The core members are Adrian Edmondson, Dawn French, Rik Mayall, Nigel Planer, Peter Richardson, Jennifer Saunders and Alexei Sayle with frequent appearances by Keith Allen, Robbie Coltrane and others.
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Title: The Borgias
Character: Paolo Orsini
Released: October 14, 1981
Type: TV
A a serial in ten parts on the lives of one of the most intriguing families in history.
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Lady Oscar
Title: Lady Oscar
Character: Comte de Giraudet, Oscar's Fiancé
Released: March 3, 1979
Type: Movie
Oscar François de Jarjayes was born female, but her father insisted she be raised as a boy as he had no sons. She becomes the captain of the guards at Versailles under King Louis XVI and Marie Antonette. Her privileged, noble life comes under fire as she discovers the hard life of the poor people of France. She is caught up in the French Revolution, and must choose between her loyalty and love.
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The Big Sleep
Title: The Big Sleep
Character: Owen Taylor
Released: March 13, 1978
Type: Movie
Private eye Philip Marlowe investigates a case of blackmail involving the two wild daughters of a rich general, a pornographer and a gangster.
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Title: All Creatures Great and Small
Character: John Elder
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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Cruel Passion
Title: Cruel Passion
Character: Lord Carlisle
Released: January 1, 1977
Type: Movie
Justine is a nubile young virgin cast out of a French orphanage and thrust into a depraved world of prostitution, predatory lesbians, a fugitive murderess, bondage, branding, and one supremely sadistic monk. It's a twisted tale of strange desires, perverse pleasures and the ultimate corruption of innocence as told by the Marquis de Sade.
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Satan's Slave
Title: Satan's Slave
Character: Stephen Yorke
Released: August 1, 1976
Type: Movie
A young girl is caught up in a devil cult run by her evil uncle and cousin. She can trust no one and even people she thought were dead comes back to haunt her.
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Title: The Legend of Robin Hood
Released: November 23, 1975
Type: TV
The Legend of Robin Hood was a 1975 BBC television serial that told the story of the life of Robin Hood.
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Craze
Title: Craze
Character: Ronnie
Released: May 16, 1974
Type: Movie
A demented art dealer and antique shop owner performs nightly rituals in honour of the African god Chuku, whom he believes will reward him with unimaginable wealth and power if he merely offers up human sacrifice.
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All Coppers Are...
Title: All Coppers Are...
Character: Joe
Released: January 24, 1972
Type: Movie
A young policeman and a small-time crook are both involved with the same girl.
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Nicholas and Alexandra
Title: Nicholas and Alexandra
Character: Prince Yussoupov
Released: November 29, 1971
Type: Movie
Tsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.
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Ciao, Federico!
Title: Ciao, Federico!
Character: Self (uncredited)
Released: October 28, 1970
Type: Movie
A behind-the-scenes documentary about the filming of the Federico Fellini film, "Satyricon."
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Goodbye Gemini
Title: Goodbye Gemini
Character: Julian
Released: August 6, 1970
Type: Movie
Unnaturally close, jet-setting twins become enmeshed in the Swinging London scene, where their relationship is strained after they befriend a predatory hustler and his girlfriend.
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The Only Way
Title: The Only Way
Character: Morten Jensen
Released: January 1, 1970
Type: Movie
In April 1940, the armies of Nazi Germany invaded Denmark. The Danish government promised peaceful cooperation on the condition that Denmark s Jews remain free. The Nazi s agreed. In October, 1943, the agreement was broken...This is the true and magnificent saga of Denmark s valorous actions to save Danish Jews from Nazi extermination at peril of death!
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Fellini Satyricon
Title: Fellini Satyricon
Character: Encolpio
Released: September 18, 1969
Type: Movie
After his young lover, Gitone, leaves him for another man, Encolpio decides to kill himself, but a sudden earthquake destroys his home before he has a chance to do so. Now wandering around Rome in the time of Nero, Encolpio encounters one bizarre and surreal scene after another.
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Title: The Caesars
Character: Nero Caesar
Released: September 22, 1968
Type: TV
The Caesars is a British television series produced by Granada Television for the ITV network in 1968. Made in black-and-white and written and produced by Philip Mackie, it covered similar dramatic territory to the later BBC adaptation of I, Claudius, dealing with the lives of the early emperors of Ancient Rome, but differed in its less sensationalist depictions of historical characters and their motives.
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The Year of the Sex Olympics
Title: The Year of the Sex Olympics
Character: Kin Hodder
Released: July 29, 1968
Type: Movie
Influenced by concerns about overpopulation, the counterculture of the 1960s and the societal effects of television, the play depicts a world of the future where a small elite control the media, keeping the lower classes docile by serving them an endless diet of lowest common denominator programmes and pornography. The play concentrates on an idea the programme controllers have for a new programme which will follow the trials and tribulations of a group of people left to fend for themselves on a remote island. In this respect, the play is often cited as having anticipated the craze for reality television.
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The Bone Grinder
Title: The Bone Grinder
Character: Back Clerk
Released: May 13, 1968
Type: Movie
George, an ineffectual and inoffensive clerk, and his prim wife Gladys reserve their greatest efforts for preserving their respectibility. Sam, a rough-necked American seaman, invades their dull suburban routine. The play examines the clash of cultures between a fading British Empire and the dominance of American materialistic values.