David de Keyser

David de Keyser

Born: January 1, 1927
Died: February 20, 2021
in London, England, UK
Actor and voice artist.

Movies for David de Keyser...

samuel-613
Title: samuel-613
Character: Zeidy
Released: April 27, 2015
Type: Movie
The story of Shmilu, a Hasidic Jew in crisis, torn between his community and the romantic possibilities of trendy East London.
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Closer to the Moon
Title: Closer to the Moon
Character: Moritz
Released: March 7, 2014
Type: Movie
A Romanian police officer teams up with a small crew of bank robbers to pull off a heist by convincing everyone at the scene of the crime that they are only filming a movie.
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God on Trial
Title: God on Trial
Character: Hugo
Released: September 3, 2008
Type: Movie
In the Jewish tradition of arguing with God, Jewish prisoners in Auschwitz decide to put God on Trial.
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Title: Doctor Who
Character: Atraxi (voice)
Released: March 26, 2005
Type: TV
The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor saves planets for a living—more of a hobby actually, and the Doctor's very, very good at it.
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The Statement
Title: The Statement
Character: Dom André (as David De Keyser)
Released: December 12, 2003
Type: Movie
The film is set in France in the 1990s, the French were defeated by the Germans early in World War II, an armistice was signed in 1940 which effectively split France into a German occupied part in the North and a semi-independent part in the south which became known as Vichy France. In reality the Vichy government was a puppet regime controlled by the Germans. Part of the agreement was that the Vichy Government would assist with the 'cleansing' of Jews from France. The Vichy government formed a police force called the Milice, who worked with the Germans...
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Title: Waking the Dead
Character: Marcus Freeman
Released: June 18, 2001
Type: TV
A detective team apply new techniques to old crimes as they solve cold cases.
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The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz
Title: The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz
Character: Exhumed rabbi
Released: March 1, 2000
Type: Movie
The last day of creation. A stranger arrives in London. No one knows who he is or where he has come from. By the time he leaves, the entire universe will have been erased.
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Sunshine
Title: Sunshine
Character: Emmanuel Sonnenschein
Released: September 13, 1999
Type: Movie
The story of a Jewish family living in Hungary—through three generations—rising from humble beginnings to positions of wealth and power in the crumbling Austro-Hungarian Empire. The patriarch becomes a prominent judge but is torn when his government sanctions anti-Jewish persecutions. His son converts to Christianity to advance his career as a champion fencer and Olympic hero, but is caught up in the Holocaust. Finally, the grandson, after surviving war, revolution, loss and betrayal, realizes that his ultimate allegiance must be to himself and his heritage.
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Simon Magus
Title: Simon Magus
Character: Rabbi
Released: February 17, 1999
Type: Movie
Simon is an outcast from his Jewish community because he claims that the devil talks to him and he has the ability to put curses on crops. When Dovid asks the 'Squire' to sell him some land so he can build a railway station, a ruthless businessman from the neighbouring gentile community uses Simon to find out who wants to buy the land so he can 'persuade' him otherwise
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The Designated Mourner
Title: The Designated Mourner
Character: Howard
Released: May 23, 1997
Type: Movie
Jack and Judy are husband and wife, and Howard is Judy's father. They live in some fictional undemocratic and repressive country, and tell us a story about their lives, mostly from Jack's point of view.
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Leon The Pig Farmer
Title: Leon The Pig Farmer
Character: Sidney Geller
Released: February 26, 1993
Type: Movie
An irreverent comedy is set in motion when Leon Geller, a sensitive Jewish boy from London, accidentally learns that his is the product of artificial insemination.
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Title: The House of Eliott
Character: Sir Desmond Gillispie
Released: August 31, 1991
Type: TV
Two sisters who set up a London fashion house for society of the early 1920s.
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Red King, White Knight
Title: Red King, White Knight
Released: November 25, 1989
Type: Movie
The CIA hears of a KGB scheme to assassinate the Soviet General Secretary and enlists Stoner, an agent retired for 10 years, to go to Russia to investigate. He verifies the plot, but then has trouble leaving the country. In the meantime, the U.S. policy makers struggle over whether or not to inform the Soviets of the plot. Stoner's problems are complicated by the renewal of an affair with Anna, a Russian, as he tries to convince her to defect.
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Title: Confessional
Character: Professor Cherny
Released: October 4, 1989
Type: TV
A secretive terrorist commits crimes to disrupt the peace process between the Irish and the Brits. Both sides want him dead. When he decides to assassinate the Pope and blame it on the U.K., only a musician with a secret past can stop him.
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A Dry White Season
Title: A Dry White Season
Character: Susan's Father
Released: September 20, 1989
Type: Movie
During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody.
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Title: Agatha Christie's Poirot
Character: Gaston Beaujeu
Released: January 8, 1989
Type: TV
From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.
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Out of the Shadows
Title: Out of the Shadows
Character: James Bluminfeld
Released: September 2, 1988
Type: Movie
A U.S. Embassy worker is helped by an Interpol agent to prove herself innocent of a murder in the Greek isles.
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The Trial of Klaus Barbie
Title: The Trial of Klaus Barbie
Character: Lawyer
Released: July 15, 1987
Type: Movie
Decades after the end of World War II, escaped war criminal Klaus Barbie is brought to justice.
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Caprice
Title: Caprice
Character: Emilio (voice)
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
A girl finds herself inside a fashion magazine – Joanna Hogg's graduation piece at the National Film and Television School starring a then unknown Tilda Swinton.
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King David
Title: King David
Character: Ahitophel
Released: March 29, 1985
Type: Movie
This is a movie about the life of Israel's king David.
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Dr. Fischer of Geneva
Title: Dr. Fischer of Geneva
Character: Belmont
Released: October 8, 1984
Type: Movie
Dr. Fischer has an unusual hobby — to expose human greed. How much humiliation will his fellow man endure enticed by valuable presents? Dignity for money! Death for money?
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Title: Robin of Sherwood
Character: Joshua de Talmont
Released: April 28, 1984
Type: TV
Robin of Sherwood was a British television series, based on the legend of Robin Hood. Created by Richard Carpenter, it was produced by HTV in association with Goldcrest, and ran from 1984 to 1986 on the ITV network. In America it was retitled Robin Hood and shown on the premium cable TV channel Showtime and on PBS. The show starred Michael Praed and Jason Connery as two different incarnations of the title character. Unlike previous adaptations of the Robin Hood legend, Robin of Sherwood combined a gritty, authentic production design with elements of real-life history, 20th century fiction, and pagan myth. The series is also notable for its haunting title music by Clannad, which won a BAFTA award.
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Yentl
Title: Yentl
Character: Rabbi Zalman
Released: November 18, 1983
Type: Movie
Rebbe Mendel is a single father who teaches the Talmud, a sacred text of Judaism, to the boys of his small Polish town. Behind closed doors, he also instructs his daughter, Yentl, despite the fact that girls are forbidden to study religious scripture. When Yentl's father dies, she still has a strong desire to learn about her faith -- so she disguises herself as a male, enrolls in a religious school, and unexpectedly finds love along the way.
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The Ploughman's Lunch
Title: The Ploughman's Lunch
Character: Gold
Released: May 30, 1983
Type: Movie
As England begins its military engagement in the Falklands, a BBC news journalist attempts to climb up from his working-class roots, at any cost, lying to those around him to get what he wants, only to discover that he is the recipient of a deception far more clever than his own.
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A Woman Called Golda
Title: A Woman Called Golda
Character: David Ben-Gurion
Released: April 26, 1982
Type: Movie
The story of the Russian-born, Wisconsin-raised woman who rose to become Israel's prime minister in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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Title: Bergerac
Character: Leon Crouzil
Released: October 18, 1981
Type: TV
Bergerac is a British television show set on Jersey. Produced by the BBC in association with the Seven Network, and first screened on BBC1, it stars John Nettles as the title character Detective Sergeant Jim Bergerac, a detective in Le Bureau des Étrangers, part of the States of Jersey Police.
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All Quiet on the Western Front
Title: All Quiet on the Western Front
Character: Cook (voice)
Released: November 14, 1979
Type: Movie
At the start of World War I, Paul Baumer is a young German patriot, eager to fight. Indoctrinated with propaganda at school, he and his friends eagerly sign up for the army soon after graduation. But when the horrors of war soon become too much to bear, and as his friends die or become gravely wounded, Paul questions the sanity of fighting over a few hundreds yards of war-torn countryside.
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Ike
Title: Ike
Character: FM Sir Alan Booke
Released: May 3, 1979
Type: Movie
Eisenhower the military man is the focus of this mini-series, his relationships with the other wartime leaders, and, very discreetly, his personal relationship with his driver, Kay Summersby.
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Title: Disraeli
Character: Baron de Rothschild
Released: September 5, 1978
Type: TV
Disraeli is a British four part serial about the great statesman and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Benjamin Disraeli.
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Title: The Professionals
Character: Otto Hahn
Released: December 30, 1977
Type: TV
The lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their controller, George Cowley. The mandate of CI5 was to fight terrorism and similar high-profile crimes. Cowley, a hard ex-MI5 operative, hand-picked each of his men. Bodie is a cynical ex-SAS paratrooper and mercenary whose nature ran to controlled violence, while his partner, Doyle, comes to CI5 from the regular police force, and is more of an open minded liberal. Their relationship is often contentious, but they are the top men in their field, and the ones to whom Cowley always assigned to the toughest cases.
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Professional Foul
Title: Professional Foul
Character: Captain
Released: September 21, 1977
Type: Movie
Three philosophy professors travel to Prague for a conference. One of them, Anderson, is forced to rethink his ideas on ethics when a former student is arrested by the Czech authorities for writing about individualist approaches to morality.
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Valentino
Title: Valentino
Character: Joseph Schenck
Released: September 7, 1977
Type: Movie
In 1926 the tragic and untimely death of a silent screen actor caused female moviegoers to riot in the streets and in some cases to commit suicide...
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Night Call
Title: Night Call
Released: January 1, 1977
Type: Movie
A dramatised road safety film. Following a fatal motorway crash, a doctor talks to a journalist about what makes a good driver. But the journalist turns out to be the ghost of the man killed in the crash.
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Voyage of the Damned
Title: Voyage of the Damned
Character: Joseph Joseph
Released: December 22, 1976
Type: Movie
A luxury liner carries Jewish refugees from Hitler's Germany in a desperate fight for survival.
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The Romantic Englishwoman
Title: The Romantic Englishwoman
Character: George
Released: June 11, 1975
Type: Movie
A marriage crisis between a writer and his wife leads her to flee to Germany and eventually return with another man, through whom the writer is going to overcome his writer's block.
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The Hiding Place
Title: The Hiding Place
Character: Eusie Koonstra
Released: May 4, 1975
Type: Movie
The Hiding Place is an account of a Dutch family who risk their lives by offering a safe haven for Jews during World War II
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Murder on the Orient Express
Title: Murder on the Orient Express
Character: Turkish Ticket Collector (uncredited)
Released: November 22, 1974
Type: Movie
In 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before.
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Someone at the Top of the Stairs
Title: Someone at the Top of the Stairs
Character: Cartney
Released: May 3, 1974
Type: Movie
A young woman and her friend rent a room in a boarding house. Soon they become aware of the fact that the other "renters" are a very strange lot, and that there are some very odd goings-on in the house that seem to be centered in the attic... Part of the ITV 'Thriller' anthology series.
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Title: Playhouse
Character: Curtis-Bennett
Released: March 13, 1974
Type: TV
BBC2 Playhouse is a one hour UK anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas created by Sara Pia Anderson and produced by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). Among its many notable guest stars were Helen Mirren, Daniel Day-Lewis, Judi Dench, Liam Neeson, Paul Scofield, Deborah Kerr, Ben Kingsley, Donald Pleasence, Brenda Blethyn, and Peggy Ashcroft. It premiered in the UK on March 13, 1974 and ran through May 20, 1983.
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Zardoz
Title: Zardoz
Character: Tabernacle (voice) (uncredited)
Released: February 6, 1974
Type: Movie
In the far future, a savage trained only to kill finds a way into the community of bored immortals that alone preserves humanity's achievements.
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A Touch of Class
Title: A Touch of Class
Character: Doctor Alvarez
Released: May 25, 1973
Type: Movie
Steve, a happily married American man living in London meets Vicki, an English divorcée and run off to Marbella for a rollicking week of sex. They then return to London to set up a cozy menage, despite the fact that he loves his wife and children, and now realize that he and Vicki have also fallen in love.
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Bequest to the Nation
Title: Bequest to the Nation
Character: French Commander (uncredited)
Released: April 18, 1973
Type: Movie
Set before the Battle of Trafalgar, this is the story of relationship between Admiral Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton during the Napoleonic Wars.
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The Death of Adolf Hitler
Title: The Death of Adolf Hitler
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: January 7, 1973
Type: Movie
The final days in the Bunker, with Hitler becoming more and more paranoid, plumbing the depths of his madness and reaching his well deserved fate.
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Title: Crown Court
Character: Mr. Collings
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: Mr. Plenderbooth
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: Mr. Colllings
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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Diamonds Are Forever
Title: Diamonds Are Forever
Character: Doctor
Released: December 14, 1971
Type: Movie
Diamonds are stolen only to be sold again in the international market. James Bond infiltrates a smuggling mission to find out who's guilty. The mission takes him to Las Vegas where Bond meets his archenemy Blofeld.
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The Horsemen
Title: The Horsemen
Character: Mukhi (uncredited)
Released: August 16, 1971
Type: Movie
In Afghanistan, the ruthless sport of buzkashi is a game of great pride. When Uraz breaks his leg and loses a spirited match, he brings shame to his village, especially his father. After losing his leg below the knee, Uraz, to regain his honor, must learn to ride again and win with a special, one-of-a-kind horse.
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Leo the Last
Title: Leo the Last
Character: David
Released: September 4, 1970
Type: Movie
Prince Leo, last in the line of rulers of a long-deposed monarchy on continental Europe and jaded with the frenetic search for kicks with the European jet-set, returns to his father's London town house for rest.
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You Can't Win 'Em All
Title: You Can't Win 'Em All
Character: Gunner Major (uncredited) (voice)
Released: July 23, 1970
Type: Movie
During the 1922 Turkish Civil War, two Americans and a group of foreign mercenaries offer their services to a local Turkish governor who hires them as guards for a secret transport.
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Separation
Title: Separation
Character: Husband
Released: October 19, 1968
Type: Movie
Separation concerns the inner life of a woman during a period of breakdown – marital, and possibly mental. Her past and (possible?) future are revealed through a fragmented but brilliantly achieved and often humorous narrative, in which dreams and desires are as real as the ‘swinging’ London (complete with Procul Harum music and Mark Boyle light show) of the film’s setting.
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The Blood of Fu Manchu
Title: The Blood of Fu Manchu
Released: August 23, 1968
Type: Movie
Fu Manchu inoculates ten women with poison, to kill ten world leaders.
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Something Nice to Eat
Title: Something Nice to Eat
Character: Self - Commentator
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
Cooking is a kind of loving, features Jean Shrimpton
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Catch Us If You Can
Title: Catch Us If You Can
Character: Zissell
Released: July 15, 1965
Type: Movie
Dinah is a famous model and actress who is getting tired of life in the limelight and wants to take a break. While shooting a commercial spot for meat, she meets Steve, a stuntman. Dinah and Steve hit it off and decide to head to an island to get away from it all, bringing along four of Steve's friends. Before long, Dinah is reported missing and everyone is looking for her, making their getaway anything but tranquil.
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In Camera
Title: In Camera
Released: November 4, 1964
Type: Movie
A 1964 BBC adaptation of Sartre's "No Exit."
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Song of London
Title: Song of London
Character: Commentator (Voice)
Released: February 14, 1964
Type: Movie
A look at 60s London with Tommy Trinder and a host of other stars.
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The Plain Man's Guide to Advertising
Title: The Plain Man's Guide to Advertising
Released: November 1, 1962
Type: Movie
A surreal mix of advertising tropes from the 1960s is very funny but has a neat anti-capitalist undertow.
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Title: The Adventures of William Tell
Character: Karl
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 Secret Place
Title: The Secret Place
Character: Ticket Clerk (uncredited)
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.