Peter Swanwick

Peter Swanwick

Born: September 28, 1922
Died: November 14, 1968
in Nottingham, England, UK

Movies for Peter Swanwick...

The Looking Glass War
Title: The Looking Glass War
Character: Finnish Policeman
Released: January 2, 1970
Type: Movie
When a Polish sailor jumps ship in Britain, a couple of local intelligence operatives keep him under surveillance. Soon, he’s recruited to infiltrate a missile installation outside of East Berlin and bring back photos of the new rockets.
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The Devil Rides Out
Title: The Devil Rides Out
Character: Satanist
Released: July 20, 1968
Type: Movie
The powers of good are pitted against the forces of evil as the Duc de Richelieu wrestles with the charming but deadly Satanist, Mocata, for the soul of his friend. Mocata has the knowledge and the power to summon the forces of darkness and, as the Duc de Richelieu and his friends remain within the protected pentacle, they are subjected to ever-increasing horror until thundering hooves herald the arrival of the Angel of Death.
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Title: The Expert
Character: Chemist
Released: July 5, 1968
Type: TV
The Expert is a British television series produced by the BBC between 1968 and 1976. The series starred Marius Goring as Dr. John Hardy, a pathologist working for the Home Office and was essentially a police procedural drama, with Hardy bringing his forensic knowledge to solve various cases. The Expert was created and produced by Gerard Glaister. The series was also one of the first BBC dramas to be made in colour, and throughout its four series had numerous high quality guest appearances by actors such as John Carson, Peter Copley, Rachel Kempson, Peter Vaughan, Clive Swift, Geoffrey Palmer, Peter Barkworth, Jean Marsh, Ray Brooks, George Sewell, Anthony Valentine, Bernard Lee, Lee Montague, Geoffrey Bayldon, Mike Pratt, Edward Fox, André Morell, Brian Blessed, Nigel Stock, Philip Madoc and Warren Clarke.
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Title: The Prisoner
Character: Supervisor
Released: September 29, 1967
Type: TV
After resigning, a secret agent is abducted and taken to what looks like an idyllic village, but is really a bizarre Kafkaesque prison. His warders demand information. He gives them nothing, but only tries to escape.
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Title: The Prisoner
Character: The Supervisor
Released: September 29, 1967
Type: TV
After resigning, a secret agent is abducted and taken to what looks like an idyllic village, but is really a bizarre Kafkaesque prison. His warders demand information. He gives them nothing, but only tries to escape.
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Title: Man in a Suitcase
Released: September 27, 1967
Type: TV
Accused of treason, a former U.S. intelligence officer based in London tries to clear his name, taking on freelance jobs around Europe as he searches for answers.
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Title: Six
Released: December 12, 1964
Type: TV
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Title: Stryker of the Yard
Released: November 2, 1961
Type: TV
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Fate Takes a Hand
Title: Fate Takes a Hand
Character: Preeny
Released: October 12, 1961
Type: Movie
When a mail bag full of post that was taken in a robbery is discovered fifteen years later, a Post Office employee and local reporter decide to deliver the letters to their original intended addressees. This solitary incident has profound ramifications on several of the recipients and this film tells the story of how just five of those letters changed peoples lives forever.
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The Devil's Daffodil
Title: The Devil's Daffodil
Released: July 20, 1961
Type: Movie
A Chinese detective breaks up a drug smuggling ring and tries to find the "Daffodil Killer". The drug smugglers had devised the ingenious method of smuggling heroin from Hong Kong in the stems of daffodils.
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Double Bunk
Title: Double Bunk
Character: Freighter Pilot
Released: May 6, 1961
Type: Movie
When newly weds Jack and Peggy face eviction, they are tricked into buying a run down houseboat. After rebuilding the engine, they take their friends Sid and Sandra, on a local trip down the river to Folkestone, but somehow they end up in France, and with no fuel and supplies, they resort to desperate actions to get back home.
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Title: The Avengers
Character: Oppenheimer
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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Circus of Horrors
Title: Circus of Horrors
Character: Inspector Knopf
Released: April 1, 1960
Type: Movie
A plastic surgeon and his nurse join a bizarre circus to escape from the police. Here he befriends deformed women and transforms them for his "Temple of Beauty". However, when they threaten to leave, they meet with mysterious accidents.
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Life in Danger
Title: Life in Danger
Character: Dr. Nichols
Released: January 30, 1959
Type: Movie
Panic and fear overtake a small British farming community after a homicidal child-killer escapes from a local mental hospital.
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Title: One Step Beyond
Character: Landlord
Released: January 20, 1959
Type: TV
Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond is an American anthology series created by Merwin Gerard. The original series ran for three seasons on ABC from January 1959 to July 1961.
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Operation Amsterdam
Title: Operation Amsterdam
Character: Peter
Released: January 12, 1959
Type: Movie
When Germany invades Holland in 1940, a British intelligence officer and two Dutch diamond merchants go to Amsterdam to persuade the Dutch diamond merchants to evacuate their diamond supplies to England.
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The Criminals
Title: The Criminals
Character: Stone
Released: December 28, 1958
Type: Movie
A small construction company's new year's eve party is taken over by a crook who has intricate knowledge of the men's private lives, forcing them into an incredible bank robbery plot.
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The Two-Headed Spy
Title: The Two-Headed Spy
Character: Gen. Toppe
Released: November 17, 1958
Type: Movie
Wartime thriller with film noir elements based on a true story as written in A.P. Scotland's autobiography "The London Cage". The plot has greatly exaggerated the actual events of A.P. Scotland's experiences, including the addition of a fictional love interest.
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Title: The Adventures of William Tell
Character: Hofer
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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The Big Chance
Title: The Big Chance
Character: Passport Official
Released: September 1, 1957
Type: Movie
A clerk sees his big chance to escape a humdrum existence, but his resolve is tested as many unexpected obstacles arise.
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Kill Me Tomorrow
Title: Kill Me Tomorrow
Character: Harrison
Released: May 1, 1957
Type: Movie
A reporter who needs cash for his son's operation is paid by a smuggler to take a murder rap.
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Murder Reported
Title: Murder Reported
Character: Hatter
Released: April 28, 1957
Type: Movie
Ace reporter Jeff Holly is assigned to investigate the murder of a politician whose body was found stashed in a trunk. Holly's enthusiasm soon wanes when his editor insists that he take his daughter Amanda North with him to investigate. Fortunately, the girl has a real knack for investigative reporting and they make a good team. They even fall in love. They discover that the killer was the politician's rival.
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You Pay Your Money
Title: You Pay Your Money
Character: Hall Porter
Released: February 13, 1957
Type: Movie
Crime drama in which a couple get involved in a web of intrigue surrounding the husband's employer.
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Ill Met by Moonlight
Title: Ill Met by Moonlight
Character: Spectacled Officer with General Breuer
Released: January 31, 1957
Type: Movie
Led by British officers, partisans on Crete plan to kidnap the island's German commander and smuggle him to Cairo to embarrass the occupiers.
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Assignment Redhead
Title: Assignment Redhead
Character: Monsieur Paul Bonnet
Released: October 1, 1956
Type: Movie
An American army officer working for British intelligence comes to post-war Berlin to solve a murder. His investigation is compromised when he falls for a nightclub singer, not realising she is an agent of the criminal mastermind he is on the trail of.
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Bond of Fear
Title: Bond of Fear
Character: Travelling Salesman
Released: April 1, 1956
Type: Movie
An escaped killer hides out by forcing a travelling family to take him with them.
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The March Hare
Title: The March Hare
Character: Nils Svenson
Released: January 1, 1956
Type: Movie
Sir Charles Hare, a young Irish baronet, gambles his all on one of his horses at Ascot. But the horse is 'pulled', and Sir Charles is forced to sell his Irish estate. His aunt, however, has some surprises in store for him.
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The Love Match
Title: The Love Match
Character: Mr Hall
Released: February 1, 1955
Type: Movie
After being arrested for assaulting a football referee, desperate train driver Bill (Arthur Askey) raids the railwaymen's holiday fund to cover his £55 fine. He knows he's going to be discovered though, leaving him no choice but to get the money back by hook or by crook! His last chance is to run a book on the United v City football derby. If that wasn't tense enough, Bill's son is also making his debut for United. It looks like it's going to be a day to remember - do you dare look? ...The Love Match.
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The Colditz Story
Title: The Colditz Story
Released: January 25, 1955
Type: Movie
Allied prisoners of various nationalities pool their resources to plan numerous escapes from an "escape-proof" German P.O.W. camp housed in a Medieval castle.
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The Delavine Affair
Title: The Delavine Affair
Character: Julius Meyerling
Released: January 3, 1955
Type: Movie
Peter Reynolds stars as Rex Banner, a newspaperman who makes it his life's mission to track down a vicious gang of thieves. When his informant winds up dead, Rex finds himself framed for murder.
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The Black Rider
Title: The Black Rider
Character: Holiday-Maker
Released: December 1, 1954
Type: Movie
When young reporter and amateur biker Jerry Marsh investigates a mysterious hooded figure on a motorbike, he discovers crooks hiding out in a ruined castle with atomic sabotage on their minds...
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Conflict of Wings
Title: Conflict of Wings
Character: Sgt. Working Party
Released: March 29, 1954
Type: Movie
In rural Norfolk, villagers are spurred to action when it is announced that the nearby RAF station is taking over the Island of Children, a much-loved and untouched bird sanctuary, for rocket practice.
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Albert R.N.
Title: Albert R.N.
Character: Obergefreiter
Released: November 23, 1953
Type: Movie
The British inmates of a POW camp think they have an informer among them after several escape attempts fail. One of the prisoners constructs a dummy which they christen "Albert" and use at roll call in order to foil the German guards.
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Street Corner
Title: Street Corner
Character: Mr Propert
Released: March 17, 1953
Type: Movie
London policewomen handle rescues and larceny as they go about their work in Chelsea.
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Street Corner
Title: Street Corner
Character: Propert
Released: March 17, 1953
Type: Movie
London policewomen handle rescues and larceny as they go about their work in Chelsea.
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Cosh Boy
Title: Cosh Boy
Character: Mr. Wimbush (uncredited)
Released: February 1, 1953
Type: Movie
Roy Walsh is a brash and enterprising thug who bullies his friends into subservience. He and his gang assault and rob people on the street, but things get increasingly dangerous when their behavior escalates to larger crimes.
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Salute the Toff
Title: Salute the Toff
Character: Night Porter (uncredited)
Released: December 2, 1952
Type: Movie
The Toff solves the mystery of a missing employer. One of the BFi's most wanted films.
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Circumstantial Evidence
Title: Circumstantial Evidence
Character: Charlie Pott
Released: October 16, 1952
Type: Movie
Long after being deserted by her husband, Linda Harrison will soon be free to marry her lover, Michael Carteret. But when her husband suddenly reappears, he attempts to blackmail the couple with a threat of ruining Michael's career. When her husband is murdered, Michael appears to be the only obvious suspect - but will the circumstantial evidence be enough to sentence him to death?
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Lady in the Fog
Title: Lady in the Fog
Character: Smithers
Released: October 13, 1952
Type: Movie
In this murder mystery, a woman's brother is killed in a freak accident, or so she believes. Fortunately for her, an American journalist is more suspicious and so begins roaming the London streets in search of the killer.
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Time, Gentlemen, Please!
Title: Time, Gentlemen, Please!
Character: Jeremiah Higgins
Released: July 1, 1952
Type: Movie
Because of its high productivity and "almost" 100 per cent employment, the town of Hayhoe, England is expecting a visit from the Prime Minister. The "almost" is because of Dan Dance (Eddie Byrne), an old rogue who would rather drink and philosophize than work. The Village Council are determined to have a perfect record so they connive to have the old man put into the alms-house which has been unoccupied for many years, where he must abide by rules laid down 400 years ago. A new Vicar arrives and discovers that, because of the circumstances created by the Council, Dan Dance is entitled to 6,000 pounds a year at the expense of the village.
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Emergency Call
Title: Emergency Call
Character: Police Sergeant
Released: May 19, 1952
Type: Movie
A 5-year-old child is diagnosed with leukaemia and has only days to live. Her only hope is a blood transfusion, but her blood type is extremely rare, so the race is on to find the donors.
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The African Queen
Title: The African Queen
Character: First Officer of Shona
Released: January 7, 1952
Type: Movie
At the start of the First World War, in the middle of Africa’s nowhere, a gin soaked riverboat captain is persuaded by a strong-willed missionary to go down river and face-off a German warship.
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Lilli Marlene
Title: Lilli Marlene
Character: Chief Interrogator
Released: December 8, 1950
Type: Movie
Lilli Marlene, a French girl working as a bar maid in her uncle's café in Benghazi, Libya, turns out to be the girl that the popular German wartime song Lili Marleen had been written for before the war, so both the British and the Germans try to use her for propaganda purposes - especially as it turns out that she can sing as well. When the Germans kidnap her in Cairo and she starts appearing in radio broadcasts from Berlin, her British soldier friends think that she's joined the enemy. They couldn't be more wrong, because after the war it turns out that her songs over the radio contained secret messages to London from British agents in Berlin.