Ronald Lewis

Ronald Lewis

Born: December 12, 1928
Died: January 11, 1982
in Port Talbot, Glamorgan, Wales, UK
Ronald Glasfryn Lewis (11 December 1928 – 11 January 1982), was a Welsh actor, best known for his appearances in British films of the 1950s and 1960s. One obituary called him "a handsome debonair actor with aristocratic looks and distinctive flared nostrils...a major talent who inexplicably faded from the scene."

Movies for Ronald Lewis...

The John Sullivan Story
Title: The John Sullivan Story
Character: Marko Karadjic
Released: August 5, 1979
Type: Movie
After his troopship is sunk in 1942, John Sullivan is saved by members of the Yugoslav group, the Chetniks. He is later sold to the opposing group, The Partisans. This is his life as a medic in civil war-torn Yugoslavia. A TV movie spin off from The Sullivans (1976).
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Title: Big Boy Now!
Released: May 30, 1976
Type: TV
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Paul and Michelle
Title: Paul and Michelle
Character: Sir Robert
Released: March 15, 1974
Type: Movie
Taking place approximately three years after the events in Friends, Paul and Michelle follows the family of Paul Harrison and Michelle Latour-Harrison after they have been reunited. Paul has to cope with the difficulties he faces balancing work, college, and trying to maintain their family as well as a new love interest for Michelle.
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Title: Crown Court
Character: Aleksander Gruda
Released: October 11, 1972
Type: TV
Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the ITV network that ran from 1972, when the Crown Court system replaced Assize courts and Quarter sessions in the legal system of England and Wales, to 1984.
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Title: Crown Court
Released: October 11, 1972
Type: TV
Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the ITV network that ran from 1972, when the Crown Court system replaced Assize courts and Quarter sessions in the legal system of England and Wales, to 1984.
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Title: The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
Character: Dagobert Trostler
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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Friends
Title: Friends
Character: Mr. Harrison
Released: March 24, 1971
Type: Movie
Paul, a rich English boy, and Michelle, an orphaned French girl, run away from home to a remote beach. Living on their own, their friendship grows into love.
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The Second Interview
Title: The Second Interview
Character: Derek Ballantyne
Released: September 29, 1970
Type: Movie
A man who has become a slave to buying luxuries tells his wife that he is being interviewed for a higher-paid position at work.
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Title: His And Hers
Released: June 23, 1970
Type: TV
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The Brigand of Kandahar
Title: The Brigand of Kandahar
Character: Lt. Case
Released: August 9, 1965
Type: Movie
1880. British India. Robert Case, a half-caste lieutenant, is unjustly discharged from the British Army. He joins the rebel Bengali tribesmen offensive against the colonial enemy. They capture a foreign journalist and Case recounts his story of false accusation on trumped-up charges, instigated by the bigotry and racism of his commanding officers. Following a successful attack by the British against the rebels Case is brutally shot by Colonel Drewe, his accuser. The journalist returns home determined to report the true story of The Brigand of Kandahar.
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Title: Public Eye
Character: Julian Bradley
Released: January 23, 1965
Type: TV
Public Eye is a British television series that ran from 1965 to 1975. It was produced by ABC Television for three series, and Thames Television for a further four series. The series depicted the investigations and cases handled by the unglamorous enquiry agent Frank Marker, an unmarried loner who is in his early forties when the series begins. In the words of an ABC trailer for the third series: "Marker isn't a glamorous detective and he doesn't get glamorous cases—he doesn't even get glamorous girls. What he does get is people who are in trouble—the sort of trouble you can't go to the police about, even if you are innocent."
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Siege of the Saxons
Title: Siege of the Saxons
Character: Robert Marshall
Released: July 1, 1963
Type: Movie
King Arthur learns one of his knights is plotting to take over and marry his daughter. After the King's death, the Knight wishing to marry the princess is ordered by the great wizard Merlin to remove the sword from the scabbard and prove his right to the throne.
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Nurse on Wheels
Title: Nurse on Wheels
Character: Henry Edwards
Released: January 3, 1963
Type: Movie
Quietly competent young Joanna moves with her scatterbrain mother to a country village to take up her first job as District Nurse. She soon overcomes the suspicion of her patients used to someone rather older, while becoming romantically involved with a local farmer - at least until he tries to evict a newly-arrived expectant couple who park their caravan on his land.
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Billy Budd
Title: Billy Budd
Character: Enoch Jenkins, Maintopman
Released: November 12, 1962
Type: Movie
Billy is an innocent, naive seaman in the British Navy in 1797. When the ship's sadistic master-at-arms is murdered, Billy is accused and tried.
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Jigsaw
Title: Jigsaw
Character: Det. Sgt. Jim Wilks
Released: August 21, 1962
Type: Movie
A woman is found murdered in a house along the coast from Brighton. Local detectives Fellows and Wilks lead an investigation methodically following up leads and clues mostly in Brighton and Hove but also further afield.
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Twice Round the Daffodils
Title: Twice Round the Daffodils
Character: Bob White
Released: April 2, 1962
Type: Movie
Twice Round the Daffodils is a 1962 British comedy drama film directed by Gerald Thomas and starring Juliet Mills, Donald Sinden, Donald Houston, Kenneth Williams, Ronald Lewis, Andrew Ray, Joan Sims and Jill Ireland. A new group of patients arrive at a hospital to be treated for tuberculosis where they all take a fancy to one of the nurses. The film was adapted from the play Ring for Catty by Patrick Cargill and Jack Beale. Carry on Nurse from 1959 was based on the same play. The cast and production team of Twice Round the Daffodils create a noticeable similarity with the Carry On films, but the film is not an official member of the Carry On series.
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Mr. Sardonicus
Title: Mr. Sardonicus
Character: Sir Robert Cargrave
Released: October 8, 1961
Type: Movie
A search for a winning lottery ticket in his dead father's grave causes Sardonicus' face to freeze in a horrible grimace, until he forces a doctor to treat his affliction--with even more grotesque results! The audience gets an opportunity to vote--via the "Punishment Poll"--for the penalty Sardonicus must pay for his deeds...
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Taste of Fear
Title: Taste of Fear
Character: Robert
Released: June 5, 1961
Type: Movie
A wheelchair-bound young girl returns to her father's estate after ten years, and although she's told he's away, she keeps seeing his dead body on the estate.
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The Full Treatment
Title: The Full Treatment
Character: Alan Colby
Released: October 1, 1960
Type: Movie
Race car driver Alan Colby and his new wife Denise are involved in a car crash where he sustains a serious head injury, causing him to have murderous feelings toward Denise. After Denise persuades him to honeymoon with her on the Cote D'Azur in France, they enlist the aid of a French psychiatrist who offers to regress Alan back to the time of the accident and cure him.
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Conspiracy of Hearts
Title: Conspiracy of Hearts
Character: Major Spoletti
Released: April 7, 1960
Type: Movie
In wartime Italy nuns in a convent regularly smuggle Jewish children out of a nearby internment camp. The Italian army officer in charge suspects what may be going on but deliberately turns a blind eye. When the Germans take over the camp security the nuns' activities become far more dangerous.
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Bachelor of Hearts
Title: Bachelor of Hearts
Character: Hugo Foster
Released: December 12, 1958
Type: Movie
A German scholar has girl troubles while studying at Cambridge.
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The Wind Cannot Read
Title: The Wind Cannot Read
Character: Fenwick
Released: June 10, 1958
Type: Movie
A British officer falls in love with his Japanese instructor at a military language school. They start a romance, but she is regarded as the enemy and is not accepted by his countrymen.
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The Secret Place
Title: The Secret Place
Character: Gerry Carter
Released: February 6, 1957
Type: Movie
British Melodrama and crime thriller that follows a group of jewel robbers after a major heist. The film makes extensive use of bombed out areas of London.
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Robbery Under Arms
Title: Robbery Under Arms
Character: Dick Marston
Released: January 10, 1957
Type: Movie
During the mid 1860s, brothers Dick and Jim Marston are drawn into a life of crime by their ex-convict father Ben and his friend, infamous cattlethief Captain Starlight. Making their way to Melbourne with the proceeds of a recent raid, the brothers meet and romance the Morrison sisters, Kate and Jean, whom they eventually marry; but just as they are poised to start a new life in America, Captain Starlight and his gang arrive in town, planning a raid at the local bank.
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A Hill in Korea
Title: A Hill in Korea
Character: Pvt. Wyatt
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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Sailor Beware
Title: Sailor Beware
Character: Albert Tuffnell
Released: September 4, 1956
Type: Movie
Battle-axe Emma Hornett dominates her hen-pecked husband Henry, his meek sister Edie and daughter Shirley. Shirley is to marry young sailor Albert,raised in an orphanage,and he and best man Carnoustie stay with the Hornetts on the eve of the wedding.
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Helen of Troy
Title: Helen of Troy
Character: Aeneas
Released: January 26, 1956
Type: Movie
Prince Paris of Troy, shipwrecked on a mission to the king of Sparta, meets and falls for Queen Helen before he knows who she is. Rudely received by the royal Greeks, he must flee...but fate and their mutual passions lead him to take Helen along. This gives the Greeks just the excuse they need for much-desired war.
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Storm Over the Nile
Title: Storm Over the Nile
Character: Peter Burroughs
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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Sailor Beware!
Title: Sailor Beware!
Character: Albert Tufnell AB
Released: June 5, 1955
Type: Movie
BBC television adaptation of the Philip King and Falkland L. Cary play about an imminent wedding becoming endangered by a domineering matriarch.
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The Prisoner
Title: The Prisoner
Character: The Guard
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 Beachcomber
Title: The Beachcomber
Character: Headman's Son
Released: August 10, 1954
Type: Movie
Mr. Gray is the new Resident in Charge of the Welcome Islands in the Indian Ocean. The Islands are full of life, but the only other Europeans are the "sanctimonious, psalm-singing" brother-sister missionary team of Martha and Owen Jordans, and the Honourable Ted - a hard-drinking, womanizing social outcast whose English family pays him to stay away. Martha and Ted become an unlikely team when cholera threatens the islands and they must do their best to stop its spread.
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The Square Ring
Title: The Square Ring
Character: Eddie Lloyd
Released: July 13, 1953
Type: Movie
Boxing drama following the lives of 5 different fighters and their reasons for becoming boxers.