Basil Dignam

Born: 1905-10-24

Basil Dignam (24 October 1905 - 31 January 1979) was an English character actor.


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as Cavalry General at Field Briefing (uncredited)
Released: 1962-12-11

The story of British officer T.E. Lawrence's mission to aid the Arab tribes in their revolt...

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10 Rillington Place

as Member of Medical Board
Released: 1971-02-10

The story of British serial killer John Christie, who committed most or all of his crimes in the...

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Victim

as Barrister (uncredited)
Released: 1961-08-01

A web of blackmail and murder attracts the attention of a barrister with a seemingly idyllic...

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The Quatermass Xperiment

as Sir Lionel Dean (uncredited)
Released: 1955-08-26

The first manned spacecraft, fired from an English launchpad, is first lost from radar, then...

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Gorgo

as Admiral Brooks
Released: 1961-02-02

Greedy sailors capture a giant lizard off the coast of Ireland and sell it to a London circus....

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Reach for the Sky

as Air Ministry Doctor
Released: 1956-07-05

The true story of airman Douglas Bader who overcame the loss of both legs in a 1931 flying...

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Room at the Top

as Priest (uncredited)
Released: 1958-12-29

An ambitious young accountant schemes to wed a wealthy factory owner's daughter, despite falling...

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A Lizard in a Woman's Skin

as Commissioner McCloud (uncredited)
Released: 1971-02-18

Carol Hammond, daughter of a politician, has vivid nightmares involving sex orgies and LSD. In a...

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Twisted Nerve

as Doctor
Released: 1968-12-20

Martin Durnley is a young man with an infantilizing mother, resentful stepfather and an...

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Carry On Sergeant

as uncredited
Released: 1958-08-31

Sergeant Grimshawe wants to retire in the flush of success by winning the Star Squad prize with...

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Soft Beds, Hard Battles

as Brigadier
Released: 1974-01-24

In this comedy, set during the Nazi occupation of France, Peter Sellers plays most major male...

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I'm All Right Jack

as Minister of Labour
Released: 1959-08-18

Naive Stanley Windrush returns from the war, his mind set on a successful career in business....

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Sapphire

as Doctor Burgess
Released: 1959-11-02

Two Scotland Yard detectives investigate the murder of a young woman of mixed race who had been...

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Corridors of Blood

as Hospital Chairman
Released: 1958-12-01

Dr. Thomas Bolton fights for the use of anesthetic in surgery and uses himself as a guinea pig,...

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Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst

as Sir Lionel Henry Lamb, British Ambassador to China
Released: 1957-04-01

While sailing lawfully up the Yangste in 1949, the British warship Amethyst found its return to...

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The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's

as Army Officer
Released: 1960-12-22

The fourth form monsters' latest trick is their best ever – they have burned down St Trinian’s...

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Where the Spies Are

as Major Harding
Released: 1966-01-26

A local doctor is recruited as a cold war spy to fulfill a very important secret mission in the...

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The Spider's Web

as Hugo
Released: 1960-11-01

Mystery film based on an Agatha Christie story.

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The Jokers

as David's Bank Manager
Released: 1967-05-15

Brothers Michael and David Tremayne decide to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London,...

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The Lady with a Lamp

as uncredited
Released: 1951-09-22

Based on the Reginald Berkeley stage play, this compelling historical drama offers a depiction...

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Maytime in Mayfair

as Commissionaire (uncredited)
Released: 1949-05-24

Penniless man-about-town Michael Gore-Brown is delighted to hear he has been left a high-class...

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The Cuckoo Patrol

as Snodgrass
Released: 1967-07-16

Freddie and the Dreamers play part of a Scout troupe that get caught up in a series of...

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Heavens Above!

as Prison Governor
Released: 1963-05-20

A naive but caring prison chaplain, who happens to have the same last name as an upper class...

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The Games

as Sir Harold
Released: 1970-08-07

From Great Britain, the United States, France, Italy, Australia and behind the Iron Curtain....

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Ring of Spies

as Second Member at Lords (uncredited)
Released: 1964-03-23

The film is based on the actual events of the Portland Spy Ring trial in the U.K. A disgruntled...

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I'll Never Forget What's'isname

as uncredited
Released: 1967-12-18

Advertising golden boy Andrew Quint is fed up with his fabulously successful life. In very...

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Brothers in Law

as Mr. Justice Emery
Released: 1957-03-04

Roger Thursby is an overly keen, newly-qualified barrister who rubs his fellow barristers up the...

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His Excellency

as Security Officer
Released: 1952-01-22

A trade union official becomes governor of a British island colony

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Carlton-Browne of the F.O.

as Security Officer
Released: 1959-03-10

Great Britain has had an international agreement for the last 50 years with a small pacific...

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Rotten to the Core

as The General
Released: 1965-07-14

Rogues Jelly Knight, Scapa Flood, and Lennie the Dip leave prison expecting boss The Duke to...

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Seven Seas to Calais

as Sir Francis Walsingham
Released: 1962-12-22

Sir Francis Drake fights to take over Spain's treasure routes for Queen Elizabeth I.

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Further Up the Creek

as Flagship Commander
Released: 1958-10-28

The sequel to 'Up The Creek' sees David Tomlinson return as bumbling navy boffin Lieutenant...

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Naked Evil

as Jim Benson
Released: 1966-05-27

Jamaican obi-man hexes student hostel manager, eventually causing the manager's death, before...

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Suspect

as Dr Childs
Released: 1960-11-15

A government team researching cures for plague find their results put on the Official Secrets...

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The Narrowing Circle

as George Pacey
Released: 1956-02-29

A journalist is framed for the murder of a rival and has to prove his innocence, whatever the cost.

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Laughter in the Dark

as Dealer
Released: 1969-05-11

Swinging London in the 1960's. Deals with the affection of a middle-aged man for a very young...

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The Weapon

as uncredited
Released: 1956-09-01

A boy accidentally shoots a friend with a gun he found in the rubble of a destroyed building....

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The Counterfeit Plan

as Police Commissioner
Released: 1957-01-01

An escaped murderer flees France to England, where he forces an ex-forger, now established as a...

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Port of Escape

as Det. Sgt. Crawford
Released: 1956-05-01

Two sailors dock in London in search of a good time. But when one of them fatally stabs a man...

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The Secret Partner

as Lyle
Released: 1961-05-01

A shipping tycoon with a record becomes a suspect when money goes missing from the company vault.

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Rockets Galore

as R.A.F. Officer (uncredited)
Released: 1958-10-19

The inhabitants of Todday are content to live their lives in peace and quiet, until, that is,...

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Touch and Go

as Stevens
Released: 1955-10-02

When Jim Fletcher is told by his firm that his new furniture designs are not in keeping with the...

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Assignment K

as Howlett
Released: 1968-02-16

Philip Scott, the boss of a toy company, is secretly also the chief of a British spy...

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A Touch of Larceny

as Lt. Cmdr. Evans at P.R.O. (uncredited)
Released: 1960-02-04

After falling in love with an American woman, Virginia Killain, who is engaged to another man,...

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Three Sundays to Live

as Davitt
Released: 1957-10-01

Band leader Frank Martin is convicted and sentenced to death for murdering the owner of a club...

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Master Spy

as Richard Horton
Released: 1964-08-19

Boris Turganev (Murray) is a Russian scientist who has absconded from a Communist prison in an...

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The Depraved

as Tom Wilton
Released: 1957-11-01

Fed up with her wealthy but abusive husband, Tom (Basil Dignam), young English homemaker Laura...

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You Pay Your Money

as Currie
Released: 1957-02-13

Crime drama in which a couple get involved in a web of intrigue surrounding the husband's employer.

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They Can't Hang Me

as Wing Commander Riddle
Released: 1955-10-01

A murderer hopes to escape his death sentence by identifying the leaders of a spy ring.

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Life for Ruth

as Mapleton
Released: 1962-09-06

John Harris finds himself ostracized and placed on trial for allowing his daughter Ruth to die....

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80,000 Suspects

as Health Officer Boswell
Released: 1963-08-15

A doctor's already-shaky marriage is tested to an even greater extent when he has to contend...

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Appointment with Venus

as R.A.M.C. Captain
Released: 1951-10-08

At the outbreak of WWII the British realise they can't prevent the invasion of the Channel...

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Smart Alec

as Defense Attorney
Released: 1951-03-01

A young artist plots "the perfect murder" in order to inherit his wealthy uncle's fortune.

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Innocent Sinners

as Dyson
Released: 1958-03-25

A neglected girl in post-World War II London befriends street urchins who help her build a tiny...

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Up the Creek

as Coombes
Released: 1958-05-13

Bumbling navy officer Lieutenant Humphrey Fairweather (David Tomlinson) is transferred to HMS...

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Fate Takes a Hand

as Wheeler
Released: 1961-10-12

When a mail bag full of post that was taken in a robbery is discovered fifteen years later, a...

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Hammer the Toff

as Superintendent
Released: 1952-05-01

A detective proves that a Robin Hood-type crook did not steal a metal formula.

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The Court Martial of Major Keller

as Morrell
Released: 1961-12-01

Lawrence Payne stars as Major Kellor, a well respected and decorated officer who is being...

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Two on the Tiles

as Ship’s Captain
Released: 1951-09-01

A married couple both face temptations while separated for a few days. The husband meets an...

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Son of a Stranger

as Dr. Delaney
Released: 1958-03-03

A young man searches for the father he never knew, who he believes to be a millionaire.

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The Avengers

as uncredited
First aired: 1961-01-07

The Avengers is a British television series created in the 1960s. It initially focused on Dr....

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The Saint

as Cmdr. Richardson
First aired: 1962-10-04

Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who...

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The Champions

as Sir Frederick
First aired: 1968-09-25

The Champions is a British espionage/science fiction/occult detective fiction adventure series...

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The Persuaders!

as Prime Minister Norman Russell
First aired: 1971-09-17

An English aristocrat and an American millionaire come together to tackle crime.

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Crown Court

as Dr. Sissons
First aired: 1972-10-11

Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the...

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The Adventures of Robin Hood

as Rich Merchant
First aired: 1955-09-26

The legendary character Robin Hood and his band of merry men in Sherwood Forest and the...

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The Sweeney

as Moberly
First aired: 1975-01-02

Jack Regan, an unethical officer of the Flying Squad, uses unorthodox methods to pursue...

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UFO

as Cabinet Minister
First aired: 1970-09-16

A secret, high-technology international agency called SHADO defends Earth from alien invaders.

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No Hiding Place

as uncredited
First aired: 1959-09-16

No Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by...

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The New Avengers

as Hugh Rydercroft
First aired: 1976-10-22

The New Avengers is a British secret agent fantasy adventure television series broadcast during...

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The Prisoner

as Supervisor
First aired: 1967-09-29

After resigning, a secret agent is abducted and taken to what looks like an idyllic village, but...

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The Main Chance

as Mr. Jory
First aired: 1969-06-18

The Main Chance was a British television series which first aired on ITV between 1969,1970,1972...

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Justice

as Sir Jules Larsen
First aired: 1971-10-08

Justice is a British drama television series which originally aired on ITV in 39 hour-long...

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The Protectors

as Charles Engleton
First aired: 1972-09-29

The Protectors is a British television series, an action thriller created by Gerry Anderson. It...

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Interpol Calling

as Insp. Hopkins
First aired: 1959-09-13

The adventures of Interpol policemen Duval and Mornay as they fought against international...

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Man in a Suitcase

as uncredited
First aired: 1967-09-27

Accused of treason, a former U.S. intelligence officer based in London tries to clear his name,...

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Department S

as Howard Finch
First aired: 1969-09-09

Department S is a United Kingdom spy-fi adventure series produced by ITC Entertainment. The...

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Department S

as Henry Smith
First aired: 1969-09-09

Department S is a United Kingdom spy-fi adventure series produced by ITC Entertainment. The...

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Jason King

as uncredited
First aired: 1971-09-15

Jason King - a suavely sophisticated former secret agent turned novelist - travels the world...

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Sir Francis Drake

as Duke Of Alva
First aired: 1961-11-12

Sir Francis Drake was a British adventure television series starring Terence Morgan as Sir...

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Gideon's Way

as Commissioner Scott-Marle
First aired: 1965-03-18

Gideon's Way is a British television crime series made by ITC Entertainment in 1964/65, based on...

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The Adventurer

as John Ballard
First aired: 1972-09-29

The Adventurer is an ITC Entertainment TV adventure series created by Dennis Spooner that ran...

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Sherlock Holmes

as uncredited
First aired: 1954-10-18

The first American television series of Sherlock Holmes adventures aired in syndication in the...

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War & Peace

as uncredited
First aired: 1972-09-29

The classic BBC dramatisation of Tolstoy's epic story of love and loss set against the backdrop...

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Elizabeth R

as Archbishop Gardiner
First aired: 1971-02-17

This historical mini-series documents the reign of Elizabeth I with each episode focusing on one...

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The Six Wives of Henry VIII

as Bishop Gardiner
First aired: 1970-01-01

Series of television plays written by six different authors. Each play is a lavish dramatization...

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Persuasion

as Sir Walter Elliot
First aired: 1971-04-18

British television adaptation of the Jane Austen novel of the same name.

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Life of Shakespeare

as The Lord Chamberlain
First aired: 1978-06-13

Biography of William Shakespeare.

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The Stars Look Down

as Richard Barras
First aired: 1975-09-04

Mini series about a Northumberland mining village - the daily lives of the inhabitants and the...

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Judge Dee

as uncredited
First aired: 1969-04-08

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