Barry Foster
Barry Foster was an English actor who had an extensive career in film, radio, stage and television over almost 50 years. He was best known for playing Kaiser Wilhelm II in Fall of Eagles (1974), Order Wingate (1976), the title character in the British crime series Van der Valk (1972–1992) and Bob Rusk in Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy (1972).
Battle of Britain
as Sqd. Leader EdwardsIn 1940, the Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle against the might of the Luftwaffe for...
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Maurice
as Dean CornwallisAfter his lover rejects him, Maurice attempts to come to terms with his sexuality within the...
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Frenzy
as Robert RuskAfter a serial killer strangles several women with a necktie, London police identify a...
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The Battle of the River Plate
as Bill Roper - Capt. Bell's Messenger, HMS ExeterIn the early years of the World War II, the Royal Navy is fighting a desperate battle to keep...
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The Wild Geese
as Thomas BalfourA British multinational company seeks to overthrow a vicious dictator in central Africa. It...
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Robbery
as FrankIn this fictionalised account of the Great Train Robbery, career criminal Paul Clifton plans an...
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Ryan's Daughter
as Tim O'LearyThe wife of an Irish school teacher is branded a traitor when she falls for a British officer...
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Dunkirk
as Don RA British Corporal in France finds himself responsible for the lives of his men when their...
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Twisted Nerve
as Gerry HendersonMartin Durnley is a young man with an infantilizing mother, resentful stepfather and an...
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Sea of Sand
as Cpl. MathesonA small British army team is sent deep behind enemy lines to destroy a German petrol dump as...
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Heat and Dust
as Major MinniesAnne is investigating the life of her grand-aunt Olivia, whose destiny has always been shrouded...
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Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst
as Petty Officer McCarthyWhile sailing lawfully up the Yangste in 1949, the British warship Amethyst found its return to...
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The Wind in the Willows
as BoatmanKenneth Grahame's literary classic about an enchanting world along the Riverbank has delighted...
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The Family Way
as Joe ThompsonYoung newlyweds Arthur and Jenny Fitton want nothing more than to get their marriage started on...
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King and Country
as Lt. WebbDuring World War I, Army Private Arthur James Hamp is accused of desertion during battle. The...
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A Woman Called Golda
as Major Orde WingateThe story of the Russian-born, Wisconsin-raised woman who rose to become Israel's prime minister...
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The Whistle Blower
as Charles GriegA war veteran tries to investigate the murder of his son who was working as a Russian translator...
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Sweeney!
as Elliott McQueenWhen one of Regan's snouts complains that his girlfriend's recent suicide was murder, the flying...
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To Catch a King
as Max WinterRobert Wagner plays an American who owns a Lisbon nightclub and Teri Garr is a slightly dippy...
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Rancid Aluminium
as DoctorPete Thompson thinks he has it all. However, following the death of his father his close friend...
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King of the Wind
as Mr. WilliamsIn 1727, an Arab colt is born with the signs of the wheat ear and the white spot on his heel:...
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The Story of 'Frenzy'
as SelfDocumentary about the making of Alfred Hitchcock's 'Frenzy'.
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Hotel du Lac
as David SimmondsRomantic novelist Edith Hope so horrifies her friends that they banish her to the solitude of a...
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Beyond the Next Mountain
as Alan MontforceThe story of how the Gospel of John changed the course of history for a tribe of headhunters.
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Sea Fury
as VincentThe captain of a tugboat harboured off a Spanish village is lured into a romantic involvement...
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The Last Word
as EdwardLeo, the owner of the stocking product "Discrete", has driven his company into the wall; the...
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Surprise Package
as US MarshalComic crime caper, set on a Greek island, starring Yul Brynner and Mitzi Gaynor.
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The Guru
as ChrisBritain's top pop artiste, Tom Pickle, travels to Bombay, India, circa 1960s to learn to play...
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Where the Difference Begins
as RichardA family gather together as their mother lies dying. Death brings conflicts into sharp focus -...
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Three Kinds of Heat
as NorrisThree friends persecute a gang of criminals from Harlem to the parties of the High Society of...
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Adventures of a Brown Man in Search of Civilization
as Narrator (voice)Nirad C. Chaudhuri expounds his views on culture, history, religion and society from a...
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Succubus
as MikeA family settles in an old castle with plans to, among other things, turn its former cemetery...
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Party Time
as GavinAt a posh cocktail party, various plans are made, and a missing guest turns up late.
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How Many Miles to Babylon?
as Major GlendinningWealthy Alexander Moore and working-class Jerry Crowe are childhood friends and in 1914 find...
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Orde Wingate
as Orde WingateThe story of the military career of Orde Wingate, one of the most controversial and unorthodox...
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Practical Experience
as Bellamy'I'm unusual. I really want to be an architect. Always have done. Always wanted to build fine...
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A Quiet Day in Belfast
as John SlatteryAndrew Angus Dalrymple's realistic portrait of a British soldier, his Irish lover and her twin...
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After Pilkington
as DerekThe quiet life of Oxford professor James Westgate is shattered when he is introduced to Penny,...
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Worm in the Bud
as Edgar MaloneAn elderly man living on his own in Belfast rouses the suspicions of his neighbors.
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Random Moments in a May Garden
as DavidA middle-aged couple give a dinner party to their friends. In the room is a photograph of...
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as uncreditedA young policeman becomes involved with a glamorous German woman in London, to his cost.
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Danger on Dartmoor
as Mr. GreenThe adventures of children lost in fog on Dartmoor, who encounter a wild dog, an escaped...
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Old Times
as DeeleyKate and Deeley are married and live in the country. They are joined by Kate's friend, Anna, and...
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The Interior Decorator
as BellamyAn interior decorator takes a millionaire's wife on a guided tour of her new home.
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Rabbit Pie Day
as The MajorAs World War II draws to a close thousands of Russian soldiers overtaken by the Allied advance...
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Bergerac
as Howard BaileyBergerac is a British television show set on Jersey. Produced by the BBC in association with the...
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Dalgliesh
as Maxim HowarthCentred on the cases of P. D. James' gentleman detective Adam Dalgliesh. In addition to his...
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Van der Valk
as Commissaris Simon "Piet" Van der ValkVan der Valk is a British television series that was produced by Thames Television for the ITV...
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Public Eye
as Gerald Gurney-StuartPublic Eye is a British television series that ran from 1965 to 1975. It was produced by ABC...
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Maigret
as uncreditedBBC series based on the novels by Georges Simenon which starred Rupert Davies as Inspector...
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The Troubleshooters
as Robert DriscollThe Troubleshooters is a British television series made by the BBC between 1965 and 1972,...
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Sir Francis Drake
as Tom BrewsterSir Francis Drake was a British adventure television series starring Terence Morgan as Sir...
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Screen Two
as DerekSeries of single made-for-television dramas.
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Roger Roger
as Pieter EugeneRoger Roger is a BBC television comedy-drama written by John Sullivan. The series was about a...
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Playhouse
as BellamyBBC2 Playhouse is a one hour UK anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic...
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Fall of Eagles
as Kaiser Wilhelm II"Fall of Eagles" is a 13-part British television drama aired by the BBC in 1974. The series...
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Smiley's People
as Saul EnderbyCalled out of retirement to settle the affairs of a friend, Smiley finds his old organization,...
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Divorce His, Divorce Hers
as Donald TrentonThe dissolution of an 18-year marriage, seen first from his point-of-view and then from hers.
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