Peter Burton

Peter Burton

Born: April 4, 1921
Died: November 27, 1989
in Bromley, Kent, England, UK

Movies for Peter Burton...

Title: Press Gang
Character: Mr. Campbell
Released: January 16, 1989
Type: TV
The activities of the staff at The Junior Gazette, a children's weekly newspaper produced by a group of school pupils.
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The Doctor and the Devils
Title: The Doctor and the Devils
Character: Customer
Released: October 4, 1985
Type: Movie
In Victorian England, two grave robbers supply a wealthy doctor with bodies to research anatomy on, but greed causes them to look for a more simple way to get the job done.
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The Jigsaw Man
Title: The Jigsaw Man
Character: Douglas Ransom
Released: November 11, 1983
Type: Movie
Philip Kimberly, the former head of the British Secret Service who defected to Russia, is given plastic surgery and sent back to Britain by the KGB to retrieve some vital documents. With the documents in hand, he instead plays off MI6 and the KGB against each other.
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The Scarlet and the Black
Title: The Scarlet and the Black
Character: Sir D'Arcy Osborne
Released: February 2, 1983
Type: Movie
Fr. Hugh O'Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped prisoners of war, and Italian resistance families. His activities become so large that the Nazis decide to assassinate him the next time he leaves the Vatican.
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Richard's Things
Title: Richard's Things
Character: Colonel
Released: December 26, 1980
Type: Movie
Following her husband's death, a wife discovers and confronts her husband's lover. Their mutual pain, love, envy and jealousy bring them together in an unexpected emotional and physical relationship.
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Leopard in the Snow
Title: Leopard in the Snow
Character: Mr. Framley
Released: April 1, 1979
Type: Movie
A tender romance develops between an attractive young woman and a famous race car driver who lives incognito after supposedly being killed in an auto accident.
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Title: Return of the Saint
Character: Dr. Evans
Released: September 10, 1978
Type: TV
Follow the swashbuckling exploits of Simon Templar, a modern-day Robin Hood of sorts.
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Title: Out
Character: Card Player
Released: July 24, 1978
Type: TV
Frank Ross returns from an eight-year prison sentence for a robbery that was thwarted because somebody 'grassed' the gang. Nobody knows who put the finger on him, but Ross is determined to find out and seeks revenge on those who betrayed him. Little by little, Ross pieces together the trail that leads to a dramatic conclusion.
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Title: The Professionals
Character: Conroy
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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A Clockwork Orange
Title: A Clockwork Orange
Character: Junior Minister
Released: December 19, 1971
Type: Movie
In a near-future Britain, young Alexander DeLarge and his pals get their kicks beating and raping anyone they please. When not destroying the lives of others, Alex swoons to the music of Beethoven. The state, eager to crack down on juvenile crime, gives an incarcerated Alex the option to undergo an invasive procedure that'll rob him of all personal agency. In a time when conscience is a commodity, can Alex change his tune?
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Carry On at Your Convenience
Title: Carry On at Your Convenience
Character: Hotel Manager
Released: June 15, 1971
Type: Movie
This is the tale of industrial strife at WC Boggs' Lavatory factory. Vic Spanner is the union representative who calls a strike at the drop of a hat; eventually everyone has to get fed up with him. This is also the ideal opportunity for lots of lavatorial jokes...
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All the Right Noises
Title: All the Right Noises
Character: Stage manager
Released: October 16, 1970
Type: Movie
A married man with two small children begins an affair with a beautiful young actress which quickly blossoms into a full blown romance, until she tells him that she is only 15 years old…
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Title: UFO
Character: Dr. Murray
Released: September 16, 1970
Type: TV
A secret, high-technology international agency called SHADO defends Earth from alien invaders.
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Title: UFO
Character: Perry
Released: September 16, 1970
Type: TV
A secret, high-technology international agency called SHADO defends Earth from alien invaders.
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Amsterdam Affair
Title: Amsterdam Affair
Released: June 9, 1968
Type: Movie
An Englishman in Holland gets involved in a murder case. It looks bad for him, but the wily Inspector Van Der Valk isn't convinced of his guilt.
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Berserk!
Title: Berserk!
Character: Gustavo
Released: November 1, 1967
Type: Movie
A lady ringmaster milks the publicity from a string of murders.
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The Iron Maiden
Title: The Iron Maiden
Character: Thompson's Salesman
Released: June 7, 1963
Type: Movie
The film follows Jack Hopkins (played by Michael Craig), an aircraft designer with a passion for traction engines. His boss (played by Cecil Parker) is eager to sell a new supersonic jet plane that Jack has designed to American millionaire Paul Fisher (Alan Hale, Jr.). The first encounter between Fisher and Jack goes badly, and tensions only heighten after Fisher's daughter Kathy (Anne Helm) damages Jack's prize traction engine "The Iron Maiden", rendering it impossible to drive solo. Jack is desperate to enter the annual Woburn Abbey steam rally with the machine, but his fireman is injured and unable to participate. When all seems lost the millionaire himself is won over by Jack's plight and joins him in driving the engine; the two soon become firm friends.
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That Kind of Girl
Title: That Kind of Girl
Character: Elliot Collier
Released: January 1, 1963
Type: Movie
That Kind of Girl is a British cult film and the directorial debut of Gerry O'Hara. Produced by Robert Hartford-Davis with a script by Jan Read, it was released in 1963. The film's subject is premarital sexual relationships and sexually transmitted diseases in an English 1960s millieu.
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Lawrence of Arabia
Title: Lawrence of Arabia
Character: Damascus Sheik (uncredited)
Released: December 11, 1962
Type: Movie
The story of British officer T.E. Lawrence's mission to aid the Arab tribes in their revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Lawrence becomes a flamboyant, messianic figure in the cause of Arab unity but his psychological instability threatens to undermine his achievements.
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Dr. No
Title: Dr. No
Character: Major Boothroyd
Released: October 7, 1962
Type: Movie
Agent 007 battles mysterious Dr. No, a scientific genius bent on destroying the U.S. space program. As the countdown to disaster begins, Bond must go to Jamaica, where he encounters beautiful Honey Ryder, to confront a megalomaniacal villain in his massive island headquarters.
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Title: The Saint
Character: Molliere
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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Raising the Wind
Title: Raising the Wind
Character: 1st Viola
Released: September 6, 1961
Type: Movie
'Carry On' director Gerald Thomas helms this comedy caper featuring early appearances by James Robertson Justice, Sid James, Leslie Phillips, Kenneth Williams, Liz Fraser and Eric Barker. The film follows the hi-jinks of a group of music students who move into a shared flat in order to cut costs and have somewhere to practice their instruments. Things get tricky when Mervyn Hughes (Phillips) accidentally sells one of his compositions to an advertising agency and risks losing his scholarship. Can he and his friends find a way to raise the money to buy back the song rights?
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Sink the Bismarck!
Title: Sink the Bismarck!
Character: Captain Philip Vian - 4th Destroyer of Flotilla
Released: February 11, 1960
Type: Movie
The story of the breakout of the German battleship Bismarck—accompanied by the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen—during the early days of World War II. The Bismarck and her sister ship, Tirpitz, were the most powerful battleships in the European theater of World War II. The British Navy must find and destroy Bismarck before it can escape into the convoy lanes to inflict severe damage on the cargo shipping which was the lifeblood of the British Isles. With eight 15 inch guns, it was capable of destroying every ship in a convoy while remaining beyond the range of all Royal Navy warships.
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A Night to Remember
Title: A Night to Remember
Character: 1st Class Steward (uncredited)
Released: July 3, 1958
Type: Movie
The sinking of the Titanic is presented in a highly realistic fashion in this tense British drama. The disaster is portrayed largely from the perspective of the ocean liner's second officer, Charles Lightoller. Despite numerous warnings about ice, the ship sails on, with Capt. Edward John Smith keeping it going at a steady clip. When the doomed vessel finally hits an iceberg, the crew and passengers discover that they lack enough lifeboats, and tragedy follows.
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Five on a Treasure Island
Title: Five on a Treasure Island
Character: Quentin Kirrin
Released: August 1, 1957
Type: Movie
A story of the location of shipwrecked treasure (gold ingots) being hunted down by 4 children George, Julian, Dick and Ann (sic) and their dog Tim up against a couple of machinating baddies...
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The Betrayal
Title: The Betrayal
Character: Tony Adams
Released: January 1, 1957
Type: Movie
Fourteen years after he was blinded in a WWII concentration camp, a Canadian perfume executive travels to London on business and recognizes the voice of the traitor who betrayed him and his fellow prisoners to the Germans.
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Child in the House
Title: Child in the House
Character: Howard Forbes (uncredited)
Released: August 14, 1956
Type: Movie
A lonely child must stay with her uncaring aunt and uncle after her mother is hospitalized. Her estranged father is a fugitive. For love and companionship, the eleven-year old girl becomes friends with the housemaid. When at long last, she meets her dad, she must vow to never reveal his location to the police.
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The Long Arm
Title: The Long Arm
Character: Creasey
Released: June 1, 1956
Type: Movie
Scotland Yard detectives attempt to solve a spate of safe robberies across England beginning with clues found at the latest burglary in London. The film is notable for using a police procedural style made popular by Ealing in their 1950 film The Blue Lamp. It is known in the US as The Third Key.
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Soho Incident
Title: Soho Incident
Character: Inspector Collis
Released: March 1, 1956
Type: Movie
A boxer is lured into a murder plot by a scheming woman.
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Value for Money
Title: Value for Money
Character: Hotel Receptionist (uncredited)
Released: August 9, 1955
Type: Movie
A wealthy young man from Yorkshire visits a London nightclub and meets a performer. She decides to take him for every penny he is worth, and he decides to let her.
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Tall Headlines
Title: Tall Headlines
Character: Graham Moore
Released: April 15, 1952
Type: Movie
A family is torn apart when their eldest son is hanged for the murder of a young girl.
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The Wooden Horse
Title: The Wooden Horse
Character: Nigel
Released: October 16, 1950
Type: Movie
True story of three British POWs and their attempt to escape from Nazi Germany
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What the Butler Saw
Title: What the Butler Saw
Character: Bill Fenton
Released: June 1, 1950
Type: Movie
An Earl returns from a tropical island and discovers the daughter of the tribal King has stowed away in his luggage.
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They Were Not Divided
Title: They Were Not Divided
Character: Minor Role
Released: April 24, 1950
Type: Movie
The film begins in a WW II training depot of a British Guards armoured regiment where recruits from many walks of life learn to survive the strict discipline and training together before going into battle in tanks. There is a cameo appearance by the real Sgt. Major Brittain who was famous in the British guards regiments.