Max Adrian

Max Adrian

Born: November 1, 1902
Died: January 19, 1973

Movies for Max Adrian...

The Boy Friend
Title: The Boy Friend
Character: Max
Released: December 16, 1971
Type: Movie
The assistant stage manager of a small-time theatrical company is forced to understudy for the leading lady at a matinée performance at which an illustrious Hollywood director is in the audience scouting for actors to be in his latest "all-talking, all-dancing, all-singing" extravaganza.
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The Devils
Title: The Devils
Character: Ibert
Released: July 16, 1971
Type: Movie
In 17th-century France, Father Urbain Grandier seeks to protect the city of Loudun from the corrupt establishment of Cardinal Richelieu. Hysteria occurs within the city when he is accused of witchcraft by a sexually repressed nun.
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The Music Lovers
Title: The Music Lovers
Character: Nicholas Rubinstein
Released: February 12, 1971
Type: Movie
Composer, conductor and teacher Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky struggles against his homosexual tendencies by marrying, but unfortunately he chooses a wonky, nymphomaniac girl whom he cannot satisfy.
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Alma Mater
Title: Alma Mater
Character: Nathan W. Potts
Released: January 7, 1971
Type: Movie
Jimmy Nicholson returns from working in the Middle East to visit his son at boarding school. He went to the same public school himself and is disturbed to find that things have changed and the traditions by which he has always lived and been guided now seem to be obsolete.
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Title: Play for Today
Released: October 15, 1970
Type: TV
Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.
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Title: Up Pompeii!
Character: Sen. Ludicrus Sextus
Released: March 30, 1970
Type: TV
Up Pompeii! is a British television comedy series broadcast between 1969 and 1970, starring Frankie Howerd. The first series was written by Talbot Rothwell, a scriptwriter for the Carry On films, and the second series by Rothwell and Sid Colin. Two later specials were transmitted in 1975 and 1991.
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Song of Summer
Title: Song of Summer
Character: Frederick Delius
Released: September 15, 1968
Type: Movie
The last five years of Frederick Delius's life through the eyes of a young composer and aide, Eric Fenby.
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Luther
Title: Luther
Character: Cajetan
Released: January 29, 1968
Type: Movie
An epic drama of the 16th Century Catholic monk Martin Luther who started the Reformation.
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The Terrornauts
Title: The Terrornauts
Character: Dr. Henry Shore
Released: February 1, 1967
Type: Movie
A group of scientists are kidnapped and taken to an outer space outpost in order to save Earth from destruction.
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The Deadly Affair
Title: The Deadly Affair
Character: Morton - Adviser
Released: January 2, 1967
Type: Movie
Charles Dobbs is a British secret agent investigating the apparent suicide of Foreign Office official Samuel Fennan. Dobbs suspects that Fennan's wife, Elsa, a survivor of a Nazi Germany extermination camp, might have some clues, but other officials want Dobbs to drop the case. So Dobbs hires a retiring inspector, Mendel, to quietly make inquiries. Dobbs isn't at all sure as there are a number of anomalies that simply can't be explained away. Dobbs is also having trouble at home with his errant wife, whom he very much loves, having frequent affairs. He's also pleased to see an old friend, Dieter Frey, who he recruited after the war. With the assistance of a colleague and a retired policeman, Dobbs tries to piece together just who is the spy and who in fact assassinated Fennan.
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Doctor Who: The Myth Makers
Title: Doctor Who: The Myth Makers
Character: King Priam
Released: November 6, 1965
Type: Movie
When the TARDIS arrives on the plains of Asia Minor not far from the besieged city of Troy, the Doctor is hailed by Achilles as the mighty god Zeus and taken to the Greek camp. He meets Agamemnon and Odysseus. Forced to admit he is a mere mortal — albeit a traveller in space and time — he is given two days to devise a scheme to capture Troy. Steven and Vicki, meanwhile, have been taken prisoner by the Trojans. Vicki, believed to possess supernatural powers, is given two days to banish the Greeks to prove she is not a spy.
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Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
Title: Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
Character: Dr. Blake (segment 5 "Vampire")
Released: February 23, 1965
Type: Movie
Five strangers board a train and are joined by a mysterious fortune teller who offers to read their Tarot cards. Five separate stories unfold: An architect returns to his ancestoral home to find a werewolf out for revenge; a doctor discovers his new wife is a vampire; a huge plant takes over a house; a musician gets involved with voodoo; an art critic is pursued by a disembodied hand.
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Title: Victoria Regina
Character: Benjamin Disraeli
Released: November 13, 1964
Type: TV
Patricia Routledge gives a career-best performance as Queen Victoria in this 1964 series of plays based on the celebrated collection of dramas by playwright Laurence Housman. Self-willed, obstinate, imperious and passionate... a now-familiar description of one of history's longest-serving female monarchs – but Housman's satirical tribute marked a decisive break with the tradition of the uncritical historical portrait. A Broadway hit deemed too disrespectful for public performance in Britain until the late 1930s, Victoria Regina is a frank portrayal of an extraordinarily complex woman, tracing her development from royal teenager to inconsolable widow at the helm of a vast empire, with all her contradictions, prejudices and unconstitutional behavior.
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Midsummer Nightmare
Title: Midsummer Nightmare
Character: Narrator
Released: August 10, 1964
Type: Movie
Puck is introduced to the twentieth century and is as amused by the contemporary obsession with television as he was by the lovers' antics.
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Uncle Vanya
Title: Uncle Vanya
Character: Prof. Alexander Serebryakov
Released: November 20, 1963
Type: Movie
Adaptation of Chekhov's play from the Chichester Festival.
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As You Like It
Title: As You Like It
Character: Jacques
Released: March 21, 1963
Type: Movie
One of the earliest hits for the newly established RSC, Michael Elliott’s sparkling version of Shakespeare's comedy is still remembered with joy by a generation of theatre-goers. The design was dominated by a huge oak tree, but the production is most memorable for Vanessa Redgrave’s luminous Rosalind, supported by Max Adrian and Ian Bannen.
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Title: Oliver Twist
Character: Fagin
Released: January 7, 1962
Type: TV
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Title: The Third Man
Released: October 2, 1959
Type: TV
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Title: One Step Beyond
Character: Marquis Jacques De La Roget
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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Twelfth Night
Title: Twelfth Night
Character: Sir Andrew Aguecheek
Released: December 15, 1957
Type: Movie
Twins Viola and Sebastian are separated by a shipwreck. Viola lands in Illyria, where she disguises herself as a man and enters the service of Duke Orsino. Orsino sends her to help woo the Lady Olivia, who doesn't want the Duke, but finds she likes the new messenger. When Sebastian reappears, with Viola now his exact double, merry hell breaks loose. Meanwhile, Olivia's uncle and his cohorts are trying to find some way to get back at Olivia's officious majordomo, Malvolio.
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Title: DuPont Show of the Month
Character: Sir Matthew Sprott
Released: September 29, 1957
Type: TV
DuPont Show of the Month is an acclaimed 90-minute television anthology series that aired monthly on CBS from 1957 to 1961. The DuPont Company also sponsored a weekly half-hour anthology drama series hosted by June Allyson, The DuPont Show with June Allyson. During the Golden Age of Television, DuPont Show of the Month was one of numerous anthology series telecast between 1949 and 1962. Superficially, it resembled Playhouse 90 and other anthologies, but DuPont Show of the Month focused less on contemporary dramas and more on adaptations of literary classics, including Oliver Twist, The Prince and the Pauper, Billy Budd, The Prisoner of Zenda, A Tale of Two Cities and The Count of Monte Cristo.
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Title: Perry Mason
Character: Ralph Jennings
Released: September 21, 1957
Type: TV
The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.
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Title: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Robert Stone
Released: October 2, 1955
Type: TV
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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The Curious Adventures of Mr. Wonderbird
Title: The Curious Adventures of Mr. Wonderbird
Character: The King (voice)
Released: May 29, 1953
Type: Movie
A chimney sweep and his beloved shepherdess are aided by Wonderbird in their escape from a ruthless dictator
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The Pickwick Papers
Title: The Pickwick Papers
Character: Aide
Released: November 14, 1952
Type: Movie
The Pickwick Club sends Mr. Pickwick and a group of friends to travel across England and to report back on the interesting things they find...
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Title: Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character: Sir Andrew Aguecheck
Released: December 24, 1951
Type: TV
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.
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Pool of London
Title: Pool of London
Character: Charlie Vernon - acrobat / George
Released: February 20, 1951
Type: Movie
Jewel thieves, murder, and a manhunt swirl around a sailor off a cargo ship in post-war London.
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Her Favourite Husband
Title: Her Favourite Husband
Character: Catoni
Released: May 11, 1950
Type: Movie
While casing a bank he intends to rob, gangster Leo discovers one of the clerks, Antonio, is his exact double. He kidnaps Antonio and robs the bank, posing as Antonio. But Leo hadn't accounted for the involvement of Antonio's wife, Dorothy.
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Title: Robert Montgomery Presents
Released: January 30, 1950
Type: TV
Robert Montgomery Presents is an American dramatic television series which was produced by NBC from January 30, 1950 until June 24, 1957. The live show had several sponsors during its seven-year run, and the title was altered to feature the sponsor, usually Lucky Strike cigarettes, for example, Robert Montgomery Presents Your Lucky Strike Theater, ....The Johnson's Wax Program, and so on.
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Charley Junior's Schooldays
Title: Charley Junior's Schooldays
Character: (uncredited) (voice)
Released: January 2, 1949
Type: Movie
A soon-to-be born baby learns about the kinds of schools he will attending in the years following his birth.
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Robinson Charley
Title: Robinson Charley
Character: (voice)
Released: July 16, 1948
Type: Movie
No man is an island, but Charley represents his nation in this economical cartoon tale of Britain’s economics.
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Henry V
Title: Henry V
Character: Louis, the Dauphin
Released: November 24, 1944
Type: Movie
In the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.
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The Young Mr. Pitt
Title: The Young Mr. Pitt
Character: Richard Sheridan
Released: September 21, 1942
Type: Movie
This biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of 24.
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Penn of Pennsylvania
Title: Penn of Pennsylvania
Character: Elton
Released: January 24, 1942
Type: Movie
Penn of Pennsylvania is a 1941 British historical drama film directed by Lance Comfort and starring Deborah Kerr, Clifford Evans, Dennis Arundell, Henry Oscar, Herbet Lomas and Edward Rigby. The film depicts the life of the Quaker founder of Pennsylvania, William Penn. It portrays his struggle to be granted a colonial charter in London and attracting settlers to his new colony as well as his adoption a radical new approach with regard to the treatment of the Native Americans. It is also known by the alternative title Courageous Mr. Penn.
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Kipps
Title: Kipps
Character: Chester Coote
Released: June 28, 1941
Type: Movie
A young tradesman learns that money doesn't necessarily bring happiness. Drama.
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Macushla
Title: Macushla
Character: Kerry Muldoon
Released: January 1, 1937
Type: Movie
A film Directed by Alex Bryce.
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The Happy Family
Title: The Happy Family
Character: Noel Hutt
Released: January 1, 1936
Type: Movie
A mother and father who, in order to shock their extended family out of their idle spendthrift ways, pretend to have lost all their money.