Derek Bond

Derek Bond

Born: January 26, 1920
Died: October 15, 2006
in Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Movies for Derek Bond...

Forever Ealing
Title: Forever Ealing
Character: Self
Released: December 5, 2002
Type: Movie
This is a history of the England's Ealing Film Studios, from its beginnings in 1902. It follows the studio's successes through the 1930's, World War II dramas, the well-known 'Ealing comedies' with Alec Guinness, and the BBC's television productions
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Visions
Title: Visions
Character: Shooter
Released: January 30, 1998
Type: Movie
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The Man Who Ruined the British Film Industry
Title: The Man Who Ruined the British Film Industry
Character: Self
Released: March 6, 1996
Type: Movie
Documentary about John Davis, a businessman who as chairman oversaw the decline of the Rank Organisation.
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Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective
Title: Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective
Character: Det. Supt. Carter
Released: January 4, 1981
Type: Movie
When D. C. Dangerous Davies, not held in high regard by his superiors, is assigned to find a notorious criminal kingpin, he uncovers the details of 15-year-old cold case.
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The Vanishing Army
Title: The Vanishing Army
Character: Rouse-Evans
Released: November 29, 1978
Type: Movie
Career army man Bill Paterson faces discharge in this examination of the harsh treatment of British NCOs.
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Hijack!
Title: Hijack!
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: Movie
A youth on the run hijacks a yacht with three children aboard.
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The Next Scream You Hear
Title: The Next Scream You Hear
Character: Maycroft
Released: July 6, 1974
Type: Movie
The police receive an anonymous tip that Bernard Peel has murdered his wife, Jennifer. Peel declares his innocence, but there is a substantial amount of evidence contradicting his story. Is someone trying to frame Mr. Peel? Peel asks private detective Matthew Earp to investigate.
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Title: Thriller
Character: Maycroft
Released: April 14, 1973
Type: TV
Thriller is a British television series, originally broadcast in the UK from 1973 to 1976. It is an anthology series: each episode has a self-contained story and its own cast. As the title suggests, each story is a thriller of some variety, from tales of the supernatural to down-to-earth whodunits.
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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: Crown Court
Character: Michael Lawford-Brown
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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When Eight Bells Toll
Title: When Eight Bells Toll
Character: Lord Charnley
Released: March 9, 1971
Type: Movie
In a vein similar to Bond movies, a British agent Philip Calvert is on a mission to determine the whereabouts of a ship that disappeared near the coast of Scotland.
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Title: Manhunt
Character: Peterson
Released: January 2, 1970
Type: TV
Manhunt is a World War II drama series consisting of 26 episodes, produced by London Weekend Television in 1969 and broadcast nationwide.
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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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Title: Cooperama
Released: June 18, 1966
Type: TV
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Secrets of a Windmill Girl
Title: Secrets of a Windmill Girl
Released: January 2, 1966
Type: Movie
One Windmill girl tells the tragic history of another who took to drink and, finally, killed herself after working in strip clubs.
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Press for Time
Title: Press for Time
Character: Maj. R.E. Bartlett
Released: January 1, 1966
Type: Movie
Norman is quite happy selling newspapers outside Westminster station but his Grandfather (the Prime Minister) wants to get him "a more responsible job". A few favours are called in and Norman becomes the newest reporter at the seaside town of Tinmouth. After causing chaos at a local council meeting and causing the demolition of a new house he tries to organise a beauty pageant. A slapstick tale of corruption in high and low places
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Title: 199 Park Lane
Released: July 3, 1965
Type: TV
199 Park Lane is a British television soap opera based around the residents of an exclusive block of apartments in London, and dealt with the intrigues of the Chelsea/Kensington set.
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Wonderful Life
Title: Wonderful Life
Character: Douglas Leslie
Released: June 3, 1964
Type: Movie
Cliff Richard and The Shadows are hired to star in a movie shot amid the lush tropical scenery of the Canary Islands. A sunny seaside spectacular, filled with romance, excitement and high spirits - not to mention a dozen musical numbers.
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Saturday Night Out
Title: Saturday Night Out
Character: Paul
Released: April 1, 1964
Type: Movie
Five seamen and a passenger are intent on making the most of the 14 hours they will spend in London.
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Title: Vacation Playhouse
Character: George Andrews
Released: July 22, 1963
Type: TV
The concept of the series was the showing of unaired and unsold television pilots that did not make the television lineup for CBS. The show was successful during its first few seasons due to the fact that the show's concept, airing unsold and unaired television pilots, was a popular concept in the 1960s. But during its last two seasons on the air, the series did find some trouble due to the fact that the series were running out of pilots to air and, in their 4th season, they began airing repeats from the three seasons prior. During its 1966 summer run, the series aired eights new pilots and two repeats and during its last year airing five new pilots and four repeats.
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Title: The Saint
Character: Fellows
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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The Hand
Title: The Hand
Character: Roberts / Roger Crawshaw
Released: October 1, 1960
Type: Movie
During World War II, a group of British soldiers are captured by the Japanese, tortured and their hands are cut off. Years later, a mad killer terrorizes London by cutting off the hands of his victims.
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Title: No Hiding Place
Released: September 16, 1959
Type: TV
No Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by Associated-Rediffusion for the ITV network between 16 September 1959 and 22 June 1967. It was the sequel to the series Murder Bag and Crime Sheet, all starring Raymond Francis as Detective Superintendent, later Detective Chief Superintendent Tom Lockhart.
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Title: The Adventures of William Tell
Released: September 15, 1958
Type: TV
The Adventures of William Tell is a British swashbuckler adventure series, first broadcast on the ITV network in 1958, and produced by ITC Entertainment.
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Stormy Crossing
Title: Stormy Crossing
Character: Paul Seymour
Released: August 1, 1958
Type: Movie
After murdering his lover, cross-channel swimmer Joy Webster, Derek Bond attempts to do same to her other boyfriend, Sheldon Lawrence. John Ireland plays an Interpol detective who stems Bond's homicidal hijinks. Black Tide was produced by Monty Berman in his pre-Saint days.
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Gideon's Day
Title: Gideon's Day
Character: Det. Sgt. Eric Kirby
Released: March 25, 1958
Type: Movie
Scotland Yard Inspector George Gideon starts his day off on the wrong foot when he gets a traffic-violation ticket from a young police officer. From there, his 'typical day" consists in learning that one of his most-trusted detectives has accepted bribes; hunts an escaped maniac who has murdered a girl; tracks a young girl suspected of involvement in a payroll robbery and then helps break up a bank robbery.
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Rogue's Yarn
Title: Rogue's Yarn
Character: John Marsden
Released: August 1, 1957
Type: Movie
An adulterous husband plans to kill his invalid wife. He thinks that he has the perfect alibi, but an alert detective unravels his story.
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High Terrace
Title: High Terrace
Character: John Mansfield
Released: October 1, 1956
Type: Movie
A British theater actress unable to get out of her contract is assisted by an American playwright when a pair of her scissors is discovered lodged in her producer's back.
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Svengali
Title: Svengali
Character: Landlord
Released: September 1, 1954
Type: Movie
A man hypnotizes a young woman into being an opera singer.
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Stranger from Venus
Title: Stranger from Venus
Character: Arthur Walker
Released: August 23, 1954
Type: Movie
Stranger from Venus (a.k.a. Immediate Disaster and The Venusian) is the story of a woman who meets a stranger with no pulse who has the power of life and death at his touch. He is here from Venus to warn Earth about the atom.
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Tale of Three Women
Title: Tale of Three Women
Character: Max (segment "Wedding Gift' story)
Released: January 1, 1954
Type: Movie
A compilation of 3 stories, "The Wedding Gift", "The Thief of London" and "The Final Twist". Originally part of the Danziger Brothers series "Calling Scotland Yard"
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Trouble in Store
Title: Trouble in Store
Character: Gerald
Released: December 14, 1953
Type: Movie
Norman is working in the stock room of a large London department store, but he has ambition (doesn't he always !!), he wants to be a window dresser making up the public displays. Whilst trying to fulfill his ambition, he falls in love (doesn't he always !!), with one of the shopgirls. Together they discover a plot to rob the store and, somehow, manage to foil the robbers.
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The Hour of 13
Title: The Hour of 13
Character: Sir Christopher Lenhurst
Released: November 21, 1952
Type: Movie
1890, London, and a serial killer known as The Terror is murdering policemen. When gentleman thief Nicholas Revel unwittingly becomes the chief suspect, he must use his guile and wits to prove he’s not the killer; whilst also not getting caught for a jewel robbery he has just committed.
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Love's a Luxury
Title: Love's a Luxury
Character: Robert Bentley
Released: October 1, 1952
Type: Movie
A theatre producer and actor try in vain to have a quiet week in a country cottage. But their efforts turn into comic disaster as a variety of wives, girlfriends and scoutmasters arrive uninvited.
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Distant Trumpet
Title: Distant Trumpet
Character: David Anthony
Released: July 31, 1952
Type: Movie
David Anthony, a Harley Street physician, swaps duties with his brother, a medical missionary in Africa.
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The Quiet Woman
Title: The Quiet Woman
Character: Duncan McLeod
Released: March 1, 1951
Type: Movie
The former wife of a criminal moves to a coastal town and takes over the running of a bar known as The Quiet Woman. She becomes outraged when she discovers the previous owner had allowed local smugglers to use it as a base. She soon has become romantically involved with one of the smugglers, which causes enormous problems when a customs officer turns up, followed closely by her former husband.
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Tony Draws a Horse
Title: Tony Draws a Horse
Released: June 1, 1950
Type: Movie
The free-spirited wife of a proper British doctor leaves him after an arguement over the anatomically correct drawing of a horse on the wall drawn by their young son Tony.
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Christopher Columbus
Title: Christopher Columbus
Character: Diego de Arana
Released: October 12, 1949
Type: Movie
Christopher Columbus overcomes intrigue at the Spanish court and convinces Queen Isabella that his plan to reach the East by sailing west is practical.
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Poet's Pub
Title: Poet's Pub
Character: Saturday Keith
Released: July 5, 1949
Type: Movie
A loosely structured comedy allowing for a series of vignettes based around an ancient coaching inn. The story was adapted from the 1929 novel by Scottish writer Erik Linklater.
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Marry Me
Title: Marry Me
Character: Andrew Scott
Released: June 7, 1949
Type: Movie
The stories of several individuals who consult a marriage bureau, including a peer of the realm, his butler, a lonely school teacher, a French girl on the run from a violent boyfriend, a country vicar, and a newspaper reporter, sent by his editor, to do an undercover story.
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Scott of the Antarctic
Title: Scott of the Antarctic
Character: Captain L.E.G. Oates
Released: November 29, 1948
Type: Movie
The true story of the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott and his ill-fated expedition to try to be the first man to discover the South Pole - only to find that the murderously cold weather and a rival team of Norwegian explorers conspire against him
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The Weaker Sex
Title: The Weaker Sex
Character: Lt. Comdr. Nigel Winan
Released: October 11, 1948
Type: Movie
A British housewife does her own battles against the enemy during World War II.
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Broken Journey
Title: Broken Journey
Character: Richard Faber
Released: April 14, 1948
Type: Movie
A plane flying over the Swiss Alps develops engine trouble and is forced to crash-land on a glacier. Unable to radio for help because of damaged batteries and with limited food supplies, the survivors must come to a decision -- whether to stay and wait for help they believe is coming or to leave the shelter of the wrecked plane and set out in bad weather to try to reach civilization.
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Uncle Silas
Title: Uncle Silas
Character: Lord Richard Ilbury
Released: October 8, 1947
Type: Movie
Following her father's death, a teenage heiress moves in with her guardian uncle who is broke and schemes to murder his niece for her vast inheritance.
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The Loves of Joanna Godden
Title: The Loves of Joanna Godden
Character: Martin Trevor
Released: June 8, 1947
Type: Movie
Joanna Godden falls heir to a farm when her father dies.
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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Title: The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Character: Nicholas Nickleby
Released: March 12, 1947
Type: Movie
A fatherless boy tries to make his fortune despite interference from his rich uncle.
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The Captive Heart
Title: The Captive Heart
Character: Lt. Stephen Harley
Released: April 29, 1946
Type: Movie
A series of stories about the lives and loves of nine men in a Prisoner of War Camp over five years. Location shooting in the British occupied part of Germany adds believability. The main story is of Hasek (Redgrave) a Czech soldier who needs to keep his identity a secret from the Nazis, to do this he poses as a dead English Officer and corresponds with the man's wife. Upon liberation they meet and decide to continue their lives together. The other inmates' stories are revealed episodically.