Percy Herbert

Percy Herbert

Born: July 31, 1920
Died: December 6, 1992
in London, England, UK
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Percy Herbert (31 July 1920 - 6 December 1992) was an English character actor who often played soldiers, most notably in The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Wild Geese and Tunes of Glory. However, he was equally at home in comedies (Barnacle Bill, Call Me Bwana, two Carry On films) and science fiction (One Million Years B.C., Mysterious Island). He also acted on television; he was a regular on the short-lived series Cimarron Strip, starring Stuart Whitman.

Herbert was a soldier and prisoner of war during World War II, captured by the Japanese when they took Singapore.

He was discovered by Dame Sybil Thorndike.

Herbert died of a heart attack on 6 December 1992.

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The Love Child
Title: The Love Child
Character: Maurice
Released: September 22, 1988
Type: Movie
When he was a little boy, Dillon's rock musician father and hippie mother died in a traffic accident. Now in his twenties, Dillon wants nothing more than a normal, responsible life, working in an office and taking care of the grandmother who raised him. But his grandmother has other ideas, and Dillon finds himself lured into an alternate lifestyle of art, pleasure and rebellion.
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Title: Fair Ground!
Released: January 11, 1983
Type: TV
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The Sea Wolves
Title: The Sea Wolves
Character: Dennison
Released: July 3, 1980
Type: Movie
A German spy is passing on information about the location of Allied ships in the neutral harbor of Goa, India, with catastrophic results. Unable to undertake a full military operation in the Portuguese stronghold, English intelligence brings out of retirement a crew of geriatric ex-soldiers, veterans from World War I, using their age as cover. These old soldiers are asked to take to the seas and pull off an unlikely undercover mission.
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The London Connection
Title: The London Connection
Character: Ship's Captain
Released: December 21, 1979
Type: Movie
A missing formula, a defecting Eastern European scientist kidnapped, car chases, foot chases, air chases, the British secret service, and a couple of American tourists caught right in the middle.
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The Wild Geese
Title: The Wild Geese
Character: Keith
Released: June 28, 1978
Type: Movie
A British multinational company seeks to overthrow a vicious dictator in central Africa. It hires a band of (largely aged) mercenaries in London and sends them in to save the virtuous but imprisoned opposition leader who is also critically ill and due for execution. Just when the team has performed a perfect rescue, the multinational does a deal with the vicious dictator leaving the mercenary band to escape under their own steam and exact revenge.
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Valentino
Title: Valentino
Character: Studio Guard
Released: September 7, 1977
Type: Movie
In 1926 the tragic and untimely death of a silent screen actor caused female moviegoers to riot in the streets and in some cases to commit suicide...
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Hardcore
Title: Hardcore
Character: Hubert
Released: March 17, 1977
Type: Movie
Aka Hardcore, aka Frankly Fiona. The heavily fictionalised fantastical autobiography of the fantastic 70s sex superstar Fiona Richmond, played by Fiona herself!
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That's Carry On!
Title: That's Carry On!
Character: Various Characters
Released: January 1, 1977
Type: Movie
Celebrating twenty years of classic Carry On films, two of the films’ best-loved stars, Kenneth Williams and Barbara Windsor return to Pinewood film studios to unwrap some rib-tickling moments from the series. From the original, military mayhem of Carry On Sergeant, through to the really ancient archaeological gags of Carry On Behind, our saucy hosts get their titters out for this laugh-a-second gallop through the most successful series of British comedy films ever made.
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One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing
Title: One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing
Character: Mr Gibbons
Released: July 9, 1975
Type: Movie
Escaping from China with a microfilm of the formula for the mysterious "Lotus X", Lord Southmere, a Queen's Messenger, is chased by a group of Chinese spies.
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Craze
Title: Craze
Character: Detective Constable Russet
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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The MacKintosh Man
Title: The MacKintosh Man
Character: Taafe
Released: November 8, 1973
Type: Movie
A member of British Intelligence assumes a fictitious criminal identity and allows himself to be caught, imprisoned, and freed in order to infiltrate a spy organization and expose a traitor; only, someone finds him out and exposes him to the gang...
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Black Snake
Title: Black Snake
Character: Joxer Tierney
Released: March 28, 1973
Type: Movie
A man searches for his brother on an island where a vicious woman keeps slaves on a plantation.
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The Fiend
Title: The Fiend
Character: Commissionaire Jim Hudson
Released: April 30, 1972
Type: Movie
Led by a sinister minister, a controlling religious sect called the Brethren has taken control of widow Birdy Wemys, sending her unstable son, Kenny, into a spiraling descent into madness and murder. No woman is safe when Kenny's religious mania overpowers him and leads to a rampage of carnage and chaos!
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Doomwatch
Title: Doomwatch
Character: Hartwell
Released: March 1, 1972
Type: Movie
The waters surrounding an island become contaminated by chemical dumping, and people who eat fish caught in those waters become deformed and violent.
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Man in the Wilderness
Title: Man in the Wilderness
Character: Fogarty
Released: November 24, 1971
Type: Movie
In the early 1800s, a group of fur trappers and Indian traders are returning with their goods to civilization and are making a desperate attempt to beat the oncoming winter. When guide Zachary Bass is injured in a bear attack, they decide he's a goner and leave him behind to die. When he recovers instead, he swears revenge on them and tracks them and their paranoiac expedition leader down.
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Captain Apache
Title: Captain Apache
Character: Moon
Released: October 27, 1971
Type: Movie
An Indian discovers plans to assassinate the president when he was investigating another murder.
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Title: Justice
Character: Supt. Kellaway
Released: October 8, 1971
Type: TV
Justice is a British drama television series which originally aired on ITV in 39 hour-long episodes between 8 August 1971 and 16 October 1974. Margaret Lockwood stars as Harriet Peterson a female barrister in the North of England. It was made by Yorkshire Television and was based loosely on Justice Is a Woman, an episode of ITV Playhouse broadcast in 1969 in which Lockwood had previously also played a barrister. The theme music was Crown Imperial by William Walton.
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Too Late the Hero
Title: Too Late the Hero
Character: Sgt. Johnstone
Released: May 20, 1970
Type: Movie
A WWII film set on a Pacific island. Japanese and allied forces occupy different parts of the island. When a group of British soldiers are sent on a mission behind enemy lines, things don't go exactly to plan. This film differs in that some of the 'heroes' are very reluctant, but they come good when they are pursued by the Japanese who are determined to prevent them returning to base.
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One More Time
Title: One More Time
Character: Mander
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 Royal Hunt of the Sun
Title: The Royal Hunt of the Sun
Character: Diego
Released: October 5, 1969
Type: Movie
The Spanish explorer Pizarro captures the Inca god-chief Atahualpa and promises to free him upon the delivery of a hoard of gold. But Pizarro finds himself torn between his desire for conquest and his sense of honor after friendship and respect develops between captive and captor.
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Title: The Main Chance
Character: Gil Vasey
Released: June 18, 1969
Type: TV
The Main Chance was a British television series which first aired on ITV between 1969,1970,1972 and 1975. A drama, it depicts the sudden transformation in the life of solicitor David Main who relocates from London to Leeds.
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El juicio
Title: El juicio
Character: MacGregor
Released: January 4, 1968
Type: Movie
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The Hunted
Title: The Hunted
Character: MacGregor
Released: October 5, 1967
Type: Movie
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Title: Cimarron Strip
Character: Mac Gregor
Released: September 7, 1967
Type: TV
Cimarron Strip is an American Western television series that aired on CBS from September 1967 to March 1968. Starring Stuart Whitman as Marshal Jim Crown, the series was produced by the creators of Gunsmoke. Reruns of the original show were aired in the summer of 1971. Cimarron Strip was one of only three 90-minute weekly Western series that aired during the 1960s, and the only 90-minute series of any kind to be centered primarily around one lead character. Cimarron Strip was set in the Oklahoma Panhandle, which comprises, east to west, Beaver, Texas, and Cimarron counties in Oklahoma. The show is set in 1888, just as the continuous frontier of the West, which once ran from the Canadian to the Mexican border, was closing. In less than five years there would no longer be that "continuous frontier," only pockets of undeveloped land. This was the late "Wild West" that Marshall Jim Crown was called to defend.
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Night of the Big Heat
Title: Night of the Big Heat
Character: Gerald Foster
Released: May 1, 1967
Type: Movie
While mainland Britain shivers in deepest winter, the northern island of Fara bakes in the nineties, and the boys at the Met station have no more idea what is going on than the regulars at the Swan. Only a stand-offish visting scientist realizes space aliens are to blame.
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Casino Royale
Title: Casino Royale
Character: 1st Piper
Released: April 13, 1967
Type: Movie
Sir James Bond is called back out of retirement to stop SMERSH. In order to trick SMERSH, James thinks up the ultimate plan - that every agent will be named 'James Bond'. One of the Bonds, whose real name is Evelyn Tremble is sent to take on Le Chiffre in a game of baccarat, but all the Bonds get more than they can handle.
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The Viking Queen
Title: The Viking Queen
Character: Catus
Released: March 25, 1967
Type: Movie
Set in ancient Britain, at a time when much of Europe was ruled with harsh tyranny by Rome, a tribe of Britons led by Selina, set out to defy the invaders and discard their yoke of bondage. The Roman commander, Justinian, is sent to quell the uprising, punishing the dissenters with brute force but when he becomes emotionally attached to Selina, he is torn between his duty to Rome and his love for the Viking Queen.
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Tobruk
Title: Tobruk
Character: Dolan
Released: February 7, 1967
Type: Movie
In September 1942, the German Afrika Korps under Rommel have successfully pushed the Allies back into Egypt. A counter-attack is planned, for which the fuel dumps at Tobruk are a critical impediment. In order to aid the attack, a group of British commandos and German Jews make their way undercover through 800 miles of desert, to destroy the fuel dumps starving the Germans of fuel.
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One Million Years B.C.
Title: One Million Years B.C.
Character: Sakana
Released: November 24, 1966
Type: Movie
As the Earth wrestles with its agonizing birth, the peoples of this barren and desolate world struggle to survive. Driven by animal instinct they compete against the harsh conditions, their giant predators, and warring tribes. When two people from opposing clans fall in love, existing conventions are shattered forever as each tribe struggles for supremacy and Man embarks on his tortuous voyage of civilization.
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Carry On Cowboy
Title: Carry On Cowboy
Character: Charlie, the Bartender
Released: November 26, 1965
Type: Movie
Stodge City is in the grip of the Rumpo Kid and his gang. Mistaken identity again takes a hand as a 'sanitary engineer' named Marshal P. Knutt is mistaken for a law marshal. Being the conscientious sort, Marshal tries to help the town get rid of Rumpo, and a showdown is inevitable. Marshal has two aids—revenge-seeking Annie Oakley and his sanitary expertise.
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Bunny Lake Is Missing
Title: Bunny Lake Is Missing
Character: Policeman at Station
Released: October 3, 1965
Type: Movie
A woman reports that her young daughter is missing, but there seems to be no evidence that she ever existed.
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Title: The Worker
Released: February 27, 1965
Type: TV
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Joey Boy
Title: Joey Boy
Character: Mad George Long
Released: January 1, 1965
Type: Movie
While posters urge austerity and vigilance in wartime Britain, 'Joey Boy' Thompson has never had it better. In a cellar beneath his East London fish shop, a gambling club thrives – and austerity provides a nice black-market sideline. But the dolce vita crumbles when police arrive in a lightning raid, and offer Joey and his fellow reprobates a stark choice: sign up for active service, or face another stint inside. Thus the lads find themselves heading off to Italy, determined to make the best of it...
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Carry On Cleo
Title: Carry On Cleo
Character: Guard (uncredited)
Released: November 8, 1964
Type: Movie
Two Brits—inventor Hengist Pod, and Horse, a brave and cunning fighter—are captured and enslaved by invading Romans and taken to Rome. One of their first encounters in Rome leaves Hengist being mistaken for a fighter, and gets drafted into the Royal Guard to protect Cleopatra.
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Guns at Batasi
Title: Guns at Batasi
Character: Parkin
Released: October 30, 1964
Type: Movie
An anachronistic martinet RSM on a remote Colonial African army caught in a local coup d'etat must use his experience to defend those in his care.
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The Counterfeit Constable
Title: The Counterfeit Constable
Character: L'agent Baxter
Released: October 10, 1964
Type: Movie
An extremely funny film about a group of French rugby supporters who go to see a match at Twickenham and one of them inadvertently receives a blow in the mouth from someone else's elbow. In the process he loses some front teeth and needs to see a dentist urgently ... this is only the beginning of a long series of adventures befalling our poor friend who doesn't speak a word of English and who nevertheless needs to return urgently to France to get married in the following days sporting a decent mouth !
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Becket
Title: Becket
Character: Baron
Released: March 11, 1964
Type: Movie
King Henry II of England has trouble with the Church. When the Archbishop of Canterbury dies, he has a brilliant idea. Rather than appoint another pious cleric loyal to Rome and the Church, he will appoint his old drinking and wenching buddy, Thomas Becket, technically a deacon of the church, to the post. Unfortunately, Becket takes the job seriously and provides abler opposition to Henry. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2003.
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Carry On Jack
Title: Carry On Jack
Character: Mr. Angel, the Bos'un
Released: February 23, 1964
Type: Movie
Tenth entry in the Carry On series. Able seaman Poop-Decker signs up for adventure on the high seas with the wicked Captain Fearless. Those swabbing the decks include Juliet Mills, Charles Hawtrey and Donald Houston. The film was originally to be titled Up the Armada, but the British Board of Film Censors objected to such a rude title.
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Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow
Title: Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow
Character: Dover Castle Jailer
Released: December 6, 1963
Type: Movie
English vicar Dr. Syn becomes a scarecrow on horseback by night to thwart King George III's taxmen.
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Call Me Bwana
Title: Call Me Bwana
Character: First Henchman
Released: June 14, 1963
Type: Movie
A returning moon capsule goes off course and lands in Africa where a little-known tribe finds it. Washington sends Matthew Merriwether to recover it—thinking he's an expert on the region—when in fact he's no such thing. However, a foreign power sends Secret Agent Luba to try and acquire the capsule for itself and, when Matthew and Luba reach their destination, they find that the tribe believes the capsule to be sacred and won't give it up.
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The Cracksman
Title: The Cracksman
Character: Nosher
Released: January 1, 1963
Type: Movie
Ernest Wright's peerless prowess as a locksmith comes to the attention of a tough big-time crook, who feels that the little man would be a valuable asset to his crime kingdom. In order to inveigle him into a series of jobs, he sets up a beautiful hostess as a trap, into which the hapless Ernest inevitably falls..!
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Conquered City
Title: Conquered City
Character: Sgt. Maj. Reed
Released: December 5, 1962
Type: Movie
Filmed in 1962 but not released in the US until 1966 (with 20 of its 108 minutes removed), Conquered City is an all-star World War II drama financed in Italy and filmed in Greece. An Athens hotel, full of refugees and expatriates of all nationalities, is captured by Allied troops in the closing days of the War. British Major David Niven has been ordered to prevent a cache of weapons hidden in the hotel from falling into the hands of renegade troops. He cannot allow himself to trust anyone--not even the most innocent-looking (or attractive) of guests. Originally titled La Citta Prigioniera. Conquered City was released in English-speaking countries outside the U.S. as Captive City.
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Mutiny on the Bounty
Title: Mutiny on the Bounty
Character: Matthew Quintal
Released: November 8, 1962
Type: Movie
The Bounty leaves Portsmouth in 1787. Its destination: to sail to Tahiti and load bread-fruit. Captain Bligh will do anything to get there as fast as possible, using any means to keep up a strict discipline. When they arrive at Tahiti, it is like a paradise for the crew, something completely different than the living hell aboard the ship. On the way back to England, officer Fletcher Christian becomes the leader of a mutiny.
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Title: The Saint
Character: Tom Kane
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: Hoppy
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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Mysterious Island
Title: Mysterious Island
Character: Sgt. Pencroft
Released: December 19, 1961
Type: Movie
During the US Civil War, Union POWs escape in a balloon and end up stranded on a South Pacific island, inhabited by giant plants and animals. They must use their ingenuity to survive the dangers, and to devise a way to return home. Sequel to '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea' .
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The Guns of Navarone
Title: The Guns of Navarone
Character: Sgt. Grogan
Released: April 27, 1961
Type: Movie
A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.
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Tunes of Glory
Title: Tunes of Glory
Character: RSM Riddick
Released: September 17, 1960
Type: Movie
Following World War II in peacetime Scotland, brigade headquarters replaces commanding officer Major Jock Sinclair, a boisterous battalion leader, with the strict, temperamental Lieutenant Colonel Basil Barrow. Resentful toward his replacement, Sinclair undermines Barrow's authority and damages his successor's reputation among the soldiers. Barrow faces an uphill battle in regaining the discipline and respect of his battalion.
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There Was a Crooked Man
Title: There Was a Crooked Man
Character: Prison Warden
Released: August 31, 1960
Type: Movie
When a law-abiding demolition expert is duped by a gang of criminals into helping them he is caught and jailed. When he is released he goes straight and then notices a leading citizen in his town is cheating his neighbours.
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The Challenge
Title: The Challenge
Character: Shop Steward
Released: May 17, 1960
Type: Movie
Jailed for his role in a gang heist and ditched by its female leader (Jayne Mansfield), a widower (Anthony Quayle) decides to keep the loot.
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Yesterday's Enemy
Title: Yesterday's Enemy
Character: Wilkins
Released: September 10, 1959
Type: Movie
Set during the Burma Campaign of World War 2, this is the story of courage and endurance of the soldiers struggling at close quarters against the enemy. The film examines the moral dilemmas ordinary men face during war, when the definitions of acceptable military action and insupportable brutality become blurred and distorted.
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The Devil's Disciple
Title: The Devil's Disciple
Character: Edict Sergeant
Released: August 20, 1959
Type: Movie
In a small New England town during the American War of Independence, Dick Dudgeon, a revolutionary American Puritan, is mistaken for local minister Rev. Anthony Anderson and arrested by the British. Dick discovers himself incapable of accusing another human to suffer and continues to masquerade as the reverend.
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Serious Charge
Title: Serious Charge
Character: Mr Thompson
Released: April 30, 1959
Type: Movie
Howard Phillips, a vicar who's new in the town of Bellington, wants to reach out to youth. The previous vicar's daughter, Hester Peters, who fears being a spinster, wants to be his wife. He tells her he's not interested. When he confronts a tough kid about something the youth has done, the lad sets out to frame the vicar. Hester, who's walked in on the confrontation, backs the youth's story. The town sides with her and the lad, turning against Phillips. He has a crisis of faith. What options does he have; can no one help him, his reputation, or his calling?
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Idol on Parade
Title: Idol on Parade
Character: Sergeant Hebrides
Released: March 24, 1959
Type: Movie
A rock'n'roll idol is drafted into the wrong regiment.
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Don't Panic Chaps!
Title: Don't Panic Chaps!
Character: Bolter
Released: January 1, 1959
Type: Movie
During World War II, four British soldiers are commissioned to set up an observation post on a seemingly deserted island in the Mediterranean. However, while surveying the island, the Brits come across four German soldiers holed up in a monastery. The Brits and the Germans agree to a truce, sharing the monastery together until either the British or German troops arrive. But when a shipwrecked Slavic girl ends up on the island, a battle over her erupts amongst the men.
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Sea of Sand
Title: Sea of Sand
Character: White
Released: November 4, 1958
Type: Movie
A small British army team is sent deep behind enemy lines to destroy a German petrol dump as part of the preparation for a major attack in the North African campaign. Sea of Sand was distributed in the US in a shortened version, Desert Patrol.
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Sea Fury
Title: Sea Fury
Character: Walker
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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Tank Force!
Title: Tank Force!
Character: 1st English Soldier
Released: April 22, 1958
Type: Movie
During World War II, members of a British tank unit in northern Africa are captured and held prisoners by Germans.
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The Safecracker
Title: The Safecracker
Character: Sergeant Harper
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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The Steel Bayonet
Title: The Steel Bayonet
Character: Pte. Clark
Released: February 1, 1958
Type: Movie
Tunis, 1943. Battle-weary troops of Company C have orders to occupy a derelict Tunisian farmhouse. They are to establish an artillery observation post, reporting on enemy movements before the imminent offensive to liberate Tunis. However German infantrymen discover their operations. The ensuing battle for control of this small piece of land will decide who controls Tunis but more critically, the victors in the battle of democracy versus fascism.
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Barnacle Bill
Title: Barnacle Bill
Character: Tommy
Released: December 17, 1957
Type: Movie
A seasick sea captain commands an amusement pier despite local opposition. Released in the U.S. as 'All at Sea'
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Night of the Demon
Title: Night of the Demon
Character: Farmer
Released: November 9, 1957
Type: Movie
American professor John Holden arrives in London for a conference on parapsychology only to discover that the colleague he was supposed to meet was killed in a freak accident the day before. It turns out that the deceased had been investigating a cult lead by Dr. Julian Karswell. Though a skeptic, Holden is suspicious of the devil-worshiping Karswell. Following a trail of mysterious manuscripts, Holden enters a world that makes him question his faith in science.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai
Title: The Bridge on the River Kwai
Character: Grogan
Released: October 11, 1957
Type: Movie
The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson, the commander who supervised the bridge's construction, has acquired a sense of pride in his creation and tries to foil their plans.
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Quatermass II
Title: Quatermass II
Character: Paddy Gorman
Released: May 24, 1957
Type: Movie
In England, a group of space scientists led by Bernard Quatermass, who have developed plans for the first Moon colony, learn that a secret, ostensibly government-run, complex of identical design has been built in a remote part of England and is the focus of periodic falls of small, hollow "meteorites" originating in outer space. Quatermass determines to investigate and uncovers a terrifying extraterrestrial life form which has already begun action to take over the Earth.
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Tiger in the Smoke
Title: Tiger in the Smoke
Character: Copper
Released: November 27, 1956
Type: Movie
Having been sent a picture of her husband, a war hero killed in France, Meg Elgin is led to believe he is still alive and arranges a meeting at a London railway station. When she arrives there with the police accompanying her, she catches sight of a man in the distance wearing an old coat of her husband's. When he is pursued and captured, he turns out to be Duds Morrison a former soldier and out-of-work actor recently let out of prison. He refuses to tell them anything, and having nothing they can charge him with, the police release him. His interest aroused by the pictures sent to Meg, her new fiancé Geoffrey Leavitt follows Morrison and tries to demand an answer from him about his sudden appearance masquerading as Meg’s dead husband.
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A Hill in Korea
Title: A Hill in Korea
Character: Pvt. Moon
Released: September 18, 1956
Type: Movie
Based on real events, A Hill in Korea charts the fortunes of a small group of British soldiers serving in the Korean War. Out on a routine patrol, the soldiers find that Chinese troop movements have cut them off from their own lines. They try to fight their way back to safety but with the enemy surrounding them on all sides, the prospects look bleak. Facing almost insurmountable odds, they decide to stand a fight.
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Child in the House
Title: Child in the House
Character: Det. Sgt. Taylor
Released: August 14, 1956
Type: Movie
A lonely child must stay with her uncaring aunt and uncle after her mother is hospitalized. Her estranged father is a fugitive. For love and companionship, the eleven-year old girl becomes friends with the housemaid. When at long last, she meets her dad, she must vow to never reveal his location to the police.
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Lost
Title: Lost
Character: Police Constable in Phone Box (Uncredited)
Released: January 31, 1956
Type: Movie
U.S. Embassy employee Lee Cochrane and his wife, Sue, receive a shock when they discover that their 18-month-old son, Simon, has disappeared in London. He was last seen with their nanny, and the couple seemingly have no leads that might help police Detective Craig in his investigation. The media sensationalizes the incident, causing an unnecessary distraction as the couple prepares to confront the culprit face-to-face.
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The Cockleshell Heroes
Title: The Cockleshell Heroes
Character: Marine Lomas
Released: November 16, 1955
Type: Movie
During WW2, German ships are "safely" docked upriver at Bordeaux, but the British send a team of kayakers to attack them.
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Title: Television Playhouse
Character: Mr. Collins
Released: September 24, 1955
Type: TV
British drama anthology television series that ran from 1955 to 1965 on ITV and later transformed into ITV Playhouse in 1967. Each drama was usually 60 minutes.
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The Gold Express
Title: The Gold Express
Character: Garage Employee
Released: August 1, 1955
Type: Movie
Claustrophobic train-set comedy-thriller (produced by H.G. Wells son) with an ace reporter coming up against crooks intent on stealing a gold shipment on the Scotland to London express. A scatterbrained scientist, a gun-toting dame with revenge on her mind and a pair of eccentric spinster crime novelists – who steal the film – round out the motley band of passengers who cross the path of our intrepid hero as he tries to get his big scoop.
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The Deadliest Sin
Title: The Deadliest Sin
Character: The Barman
Released: June 1, 1955
Type: Movie
A confession to a priest from a thief leads to the priest's life being threatened by his gang.
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The Prisoner
Title: The Prisoner
Character: Soldier (uncredited)
Released: April 19, 1955
Type: Movie
A cardinal is arrested for treason against the state. He is a popular hero of his people, for his resistance against the Nazis during the war and his resistance when his country again fell to a totalitarian conqueror. In prison, his interrogator is determined to extract a confession of guilt, and thus destroy his power over his people.
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The Night My Number Came Up
Title: The Night My Number Came Up
Released: March 22, 1955
Type: Movie
British Air Marshal Hardie is attending a party in Hong Kong when he hears of a dream, told by a pilot, in which Hardie's flight to Tokyo on a small Dakota propeller plane crashes on a Japanese beach. Hardie dismisses the dream as pure fantasy, but while he is flying to Tokyo the next day, circumstances start changing to align with the pilot's vivid vision, and it looks like the dream disaster may become a reality.
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The Green Buddha
Title: The Green Buddha
Character: Casey O'Rourke
Released: November 1, 1954
Type: Movie
Yankee charter pilot Morris inadvertently finds himself in the midst of thieves who have purloined a costly antique jade figure from an exhibit. He tracks the thieves to Battersea, where he rescues the fair Germaine from their unsavory clutches, and the Buddha boosters gain only jaded justice.
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The Young Lovers
Title: The Young Lovers
Character: Richards (uncredited)
Released: August 24, 1954
Type: Movie
A young employee of the British State Department falls in love with the daughter of a top Russian diplomat, much to the panic of their respective countries' officials, who suspect espionage. The cast includes David Knight, Odile Versois, Theodore Bikel and David Kossoff.