William Kendall

William Kendall

Born: August 26, 1903
Died: April 1, 1984
in London, England, UK
William Kendall was born on August 26, 1903 in London, England as William Isaac Kendall. Died on April 1, 1984 (age 80). He was an actor.

Movies for William Kendall...

Title: Persuasion
Character: Mr. Musgrove
Released: April 18, 1971
Type: TV
British television adaptation of the Jane Austen novel of the same name.
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Title: Department S
Character: Sir Wilfred
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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The Assassination Bureau
Title: The Assassination Bureau
Character: M. Marivaux at 'La Belle Amie'
Released: March 9, 1969
Type: Movie
In 1908 London, a women's rights campaigner discovers the Assassination Bureau Limited, an organization that kills for justice. When its motives are called into question, she commissions the assassination of its chairman. Knowing that his colleagues have recently become more motivated by greed than morality, he turns the situation into a challenge for his board members: kill him or be killed.
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Some Girls Do
Title: Some Girls Do
Character: Wing Commander Aston (uncredited)
Released: January 23, 1969
Type: Movie
A series of unexplainable accidents befall the people and companies responsible for developing the world's first supersonic airliner. A British agent is sent to investigate and with the help of another agent uncovers a plot masterminded by Carl Petersen who stands to gain eight million pounds if the aircraft is not ready by a certain date.
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Number Ten
Title: Number Ten
Character: Andrew Lodge
Released: October 7, 1968
Type: Movie
The Prime Minister heads a cabinet divided on the question of either using force against an African state, or referring the matter to the United Nations.
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The Jokers
Title: The Jokers
Character: Maj. Gen. Jeffcock
Released: May 15, 1967
Type: Movie
Brothers Michael and David Tremayne decide to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London, not for criminal purposes, but to make themselves famous.
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The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery
Title: The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery
Released: March 11, 1966
Type: Movie
The all-girl school foil an attempt by train robbers to recover two and a half million pounds hidden in their school.
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Title: Detective
Character: Mr. Binns
Released: March 30, 1964
Type: TV
A BBC anthology series featuring adaptations of detective stories over 45 episodes in three seasons that ran from 1964 to 1969. As with many BBC programmes made before the early 1970s, many of its episodes no longer exist. Of the eighteen episodes from the first season only twelve are currently known to exist; likewise six of the sixteen editions from the second run are considered lost, and just one of the final ten survives in the archives.
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Title: The Human Jungle
Character: Colonel Richards
Released: March 30, 1963
Type: TV
The Human Jungle is a British TV series about a psychiatrist, made for ABC Television by the small production company Independent Artists for transmission on ITV. Starring Herbert Lom, it ran for two series which were first transmitted during 1963 and 1965.
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Title: The Beverly Hillbillies
Released: September 26, 1962
Type: TV
Jed Clampett's swamp is loaded with oil. When a wildcatter discovers the huge pool, Jed sells his land to the O.K. Oil Company and at the urging of cousin Pearl, moves his family to a 35-room mansion in Beverly Hills, California.
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Honeymoon Postponed
Title: Honeymoon Postponed
Character: Joe Thompson
Released: January 29, 1961
Type: Movie
Lancashire newlyweds Violet and Arthur Fitton are forced to postpone their honeymoon and move in temporarily with his parents.
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Title: The Avengers
Character: Lord Dessington
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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Title: Maigret
Released: October 31, 1960
Type: TV
BBC series based on the novels by Georges Simenon which starred Rupert Davies as Inspector Maigret, a French police detective who preferred to watch and listen in order to solve crimes. The series ran from 1960-63 on British television.
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Title: Sunday-Night Play
Character: Derek Forbes-Hillingdon
Released: September 25, 1960
Type: TV
BBC anthology drama series that ran over four seasons and replaced the previous BBC Sunday Night Theatre series.
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The Trials of Oscar Wilde
Title: The Trials of Oscar Wilde
Character: Lord Ashford
Released: May 28, 1960
Type: Movie
England, 1890s. The brutal and embittered Marquis of Queensberry, who believes that his youngest son, Bosie, has an inappropriate relationship with the famous Irish writer Oscar Wilde, maintains an ongoing feud with the latter in order to ruin his reputation and cause his fall from grace.
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A Touch of Larceny
Title: A Touch of Larceny
Character: Tom
Released: February 4, 1960
Type: Movie
After falling in love with an American woman, Virginia Killain, who is engaged to another man, British Naval Commander Max Easton, hatches a plan that will get him enough money to support Virginia in the lifestyle she is accustomed to. Easton's plan is to disappear for a time making it seem that he has defected to the Soviets taking important Naval secrets from his job at the Admiralty and to return and sue the newspapers for slander. Not everything goes as planned for Commander Easton.
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Left Right and Centre
Title: Left Right and Centre
Character: Pottle
Released: June 23, 1959
Type: Movie
At the Earndale by-election natural history expert and TV personality Bob Wilcot for the Conservatives finds himself up against Billingsgate girl Stella Stoker for the socialists. Amateur politician against committed activist. But could it become boy-who-fancies-girl against girl-who-fancies-boy? The party agents are soon colluding against such a disaster.
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Idol on Parade
Title: Idol on Parade
Character: Commanding Officer
Released: March 24, 1959
Type: Movie
A rock'n'roll idol is drafted into the wrong regiment.
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Strictly Confidential
Title: Strictly Confidential
Released: January 1, 1959
Type: Movie
Two con-men just released from prison get straight back to their old tricks.
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Title: Hancock's Half Hour
Released: July 6, 1956
Type: TV
Hancock's Half Hour is a BBC radio comedy, and later television comedy, series of the 1950s and 60s written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. The series starred Tony Hancock, with Sid James; the radio version also co-starred, at various times, Moira Lister, Andrée Melly, Hattie Jacques, Bill Kerr and Kenneth Williams. The final television series, renamed simply Hancock, starred Hancock alone. Comedian Tony Hancock starred in the show, playing an exaggerated and much poorer version of his own character and lifestyle, Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock, a down-at-heel comedian living at the dilapidated 23 Railway Cuttings in East Cheam. The series was influential in the development of the situation comedy, with its move away from radio variety towards a focus on character development.
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Jumping for Joy
Title: Jumping for Joy
Character: Blenkinsop
Released: January 1, 1956
Type: Movie
At the racetrack, cleaner, Willy Joy is tricked into buying Lindy Lou, a useless greyhound, who's not too healthy either. While getting the dog back in shape, Willy crosses paths with a gang of crooks who's specialty is fixing the races with doped dogs.
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Title: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Captain Morgan
Released: October 2, 1955
Type: TV
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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Blind Folly
Title: Blind Folly
Character: Raine
Released: November 10, 1939
Type: Movie
A man inherits a nightclub that belonged to his brother but soon discovers that it is the headquarters for a dangerous criminal gang.
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Sweet Devil
Title: Sweet Devil
Character: Edward Bane
Released: January 12, 1938
Type: Movie
Two business partners are having woman trouble. One wants to marry his secretary and the other is set to marry a wealthy aristocrat. When the partner who wants to marry his secretary lets her go before he proposes to her, the woman confused woman tries to commit suicide by jumping into a river. Complications ensue.
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Debt of Honour
Title: Debt of Honour
Character: Paul Martin
Released: November 2, 1936
Type: Movie
A Colonel's daughter steals from the regimental mess funds to pay off her gambling debts. One of the officers, who is love with her, takes the blame, and is sent to Africa.
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Doctor's Orders
Title: Doctor's Orders
Character: Jackson
Released: November 1, 1934
Type: Movie
Leslie Fuller stars as a quack whose son qualifies as a doctor in total ignorance of his father's occupation!
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That's a Good Girl
Title: That's a Good Girl
Character: Timothy
Released: September 29, 1933
Type: Movie
That's a Good Girl is a 1933 British comedy film directed by Jack Buchanan and starring Buchanan, Elsie Randolph and Dorothy Hyson. The film was based on a musical show of the same title that opened at the Lewisham Hippodrome on 19 March 1928, in which Jack Buchanan also starred. The music was written by Joseph Meyer and Phil Charig, with lyrics by Douglas Furber. The film omitted much of music of the original show, but popularised one song in particular, Fancy our Meeting. The song remained a Jack Buchanan favourite and a version of it was also recorded by Al Bowlly shortly after the film's release.
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The King's Cup
Title: The King's Cup
Character: Captain Richards
Released: February 2, 1933
Type: Movie
'Romance set around the famous air race in which a girl helps a nervous pilot to victory.' (British Film Institute)
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Good Night, Vienna
Title: Good Night, Vienna
Character: Ernst
Released: March 28, 1932
Type: Movie
Max is an Austrian officer in the army and son of a highly placed general. His father wants him to marry a Countess but he has fallen in love with Vicki. Attending a party given in his honour, they are informed that war has broken out. Max writes a note to Vicki and goes off to war. Unfortunately the note is lost. Some time after the war, Max is just a shoe shop assistant while Vicki is now a famous singer. They meet and at first she snubs him but then falls in love with him again