George Murcell
Arthur George Murcell (30 October 1925 – 3 December 1998) was a British character actor. Born in Italy, he made his film debut in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's The Battle of the River Plate (1956), Murcell went on to develop a career playing snarling villains in both film and television. These could either be stupid, brutish henchmen, as in Hell Drivers and Campbell's Kingdom (both 1957), or sophisticated rogues, such as Needle in "You Have Just Been Murdered", an episode of The Avengers. He specialised in playing foreign characters, including Germans, Russians and South Americans. A number of these roles were in ITC adventure TV series of the 1960s and 1970s, such as Danger Man, The Baron, The Saint, The Champions (Reply Box No.666 episode, 1967) Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased), The Persuaders! and Jason King. His film roles included Sea of Sand (1958), The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964), The Heroes of Telemark (1965), Kaleidoscope (1966), The Fixer (1968), A Dandy in Aspic (1968), The Assassination Bureau (1969), A Walk with Love and Death (1969), Penny Gold (1973), Special Branch (1974), Inside the Third Reich (1982, as Hermann Göring), Year of the Gun (1991), and Cutthroat Island (1995). He enjoyed a long stage career, which involved working with Tyrone Guthrie and Peter Brook, and was active in the Royal Shakespeare Company.In the 1970s, he acquired a Victorian church in North London, which he converted into an Elizabethan-style theatre in collaboration with director Adrian Brown. In 1973, he opened it as "St George's Theatre", intending that it present little-seen classical plays. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, he continued to work at St George's Theatre as both an actor and a director, often with his wife, Elvi Hale.
You Only Live Twice
as Russian Diplomat (uncredited)A mysterious spacecraft captures Russian and American space capsules and brings the two...
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Morgan Adams and her slave, William Shaw, are on a quest to recover the three portions of a...
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The Fall of the Roman Empire
as VictorinusIn the year 180 A.D. Germanic tribes are about to invade the Roman empire from the north. In the...
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The Heroes of Telemark
as SturmfuhrerSet in German-occupied Norway, resistance fighter Knut Straud enlists the reluctant physicist...
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The Battle of the River Plate
as Chief Officer, Newton BeachIn the early years of the World War II, the Royal Navy is fighting a desperate battle to keep...
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Year of the Gun
as Pierre BernierAmerican novelist David Raybourne accidentally becomes entangled in the Red Brigade's terrorist...
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The Assassination Bureau
as Zeppelin pilotIn 1908 London, a women's rights campaigner discovers the Assassination Bureau Limited, an...
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In Search of the Castaways
as Ayerton's AssistantTwo teenagers, Mary (Hayley Mills) and Robert (Keith Hamshere) are lead by Professor Paganel...
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Hell Drivers
as TubAn ex-con trying to go clean ends up working for a crooked trucking company swindling money.
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A Dandy in Aspic
as uncreditedDouble-agent Alexander Eberlin is assigned by the British to hunt out a Russian spy, known to...
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Blood of the Vampire
as First GuardA man and wife are terrorized by Mad Scientist Dr. Callistratus who was executed but has...
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Campbell's Kingdom
as Max, a workerGiven only six months to live, Englishman Bruce Campbell goes to Canada to claim "Campbell's...
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Inside the Third Reich
as Herman GoeringA dramatization of the life of Albert Speer, Hitler's young architect and onetime confidant, and...
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The Angry Silence
as JonesWhen the union in his factory walks out on strike, a family man refuses to participate, risking...
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The Horsemen
as MizrarIn Afghanistan, the ruthless sport of buzkashi is a game of great pride. When Uraz breaks his...
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Mafia Junction
as uncreditedCliff works as a narcotics investigator for the police and infiltrate a mafia gang. Soon it...
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The Year of the Sex Olympics
as GrelsInfluenced by concerns about overpopulation, the counterculture of the 1960s and the societal...
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Sea of Sand
as Cpl. SimmsA small British army team is sent deep behind enemy lines to destroy a German petrol dump as...
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Kaleidoscope
as JohnnyBarney Lincoln is a rambling gambling man who scores sensational wins at poker and chemin de fer...
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Pascali's Island
as Herr Gesing1908: Pascali, a spy for the Sultan, sends reports to Istanbul that nobody reads. His suspicions...
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Penny Gold
as Doctor MerrickWhile investigating a murder case, a detective stumbles upon a rare-stamp swindle involving the...
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The Naked Runner
as uncreditedSam Laker is an American industrialist, working in Britain, who has just been awarded an...
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There Was a Crooked Man
as Receptionist at 'The McKillup Arms'When a law-abiding demolition expert is duped by a gang of criminals into helping them he is...
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A Walk with Love and Death
as The CaptainDuring France’s Hundred Years’ War, a Parisian student seeks refuge by the sea and falls in love...
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Don't Panic Chaps!
as MeisterDuring World War II, four British soldiers are commissioned to set up an observation post on a...
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Rime of the Ancient Mariner
as uncreditedA two-part program that examines the life of Samuel Coleridge from his orphaned childhood to how...
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The Pursuers
as FreddyA group of former concentration camp prisoners has formed an underground network to hunt Nazi...
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The Cherry Orchard
as Yermolai Alexeyevich LopahinMadame Ranevsky and her daughter Anya return home from Paris to find that their beloved family...
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The Possessed
as LiputinAdaptation of Dostoevsky's novel about liberal discussion versus revolutionary action in a...
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Crossroads to Crime
as DiamondCrossroads to Crime is about the investigations of a police constable (Anthony Oliver) who,...
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Sea Fury
as LoudonThe captain of a tugboat harboured off a Spanish village is lured into a romantic involvement...
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The Saint
as VoglerSimon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who...
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The Saint
as Abdul GranerSimon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who...
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The Avengers
as NeedleThe Avengers is a British television series created in the 1960s. It initially focused on Dr....
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The Professionals
as YashinkovThe lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their...
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The Persuaders!
as ZorakinAn English aristocrat and an American millionaire come together to tackle crime.
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The Champions
as NikkoThe Champions is a British espionage/science fiction/occult detective fiction adventure series...
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The Champions
as El GaudilloThe Champions is a British espionage/science fiction/occult detective fiction adventure series...
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No Hiding Place
as uncreditedNo Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by...
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The Adventures of Robin Hood
as Sheriff's GuardThe legendary character Robin Hood and his band of merry men in Sherwood Forest and the...
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Supercar
as uncreditedSupercar was a children's TV show produced by Gerry Anderson and Arthur Provis's AP Films for...
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Jason King
as uncreditedJason King - a suavely sophisticated former secret agent turned novelist - travels the world...
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The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
as Inspector VandeleurAdaptations of mystery stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's contemporary rivals in the genre.
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Gideon's Way
as KautskyGideon's Way is a British television crime series made by ITC Entertainment in 1964/65, based on...
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Suspense
as uncreditedAnthology series telling suspenseful tales.
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Manhunt
as FrancoManhunt is a World War II drama series consisting of 26 episodes, produced by London Weekend...
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Peter the Great
as uncreditedPeter the Great is a 1986 NBC television mini-series starring Maximilian Schell as Russian...
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The Adventures of Sir Lancelot
as JaggydThe Adventures of Sir Lancelot is a British television series first broadcast in 1956, produced...
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Smuggler
as Silas KembleSet during the Napoleonic wars of the early 1800s, Oliver Tobias stars as Jack Vincent, a...
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1990
as TinyThe series is set in a dystopian future in which Britain is under the grip of the Home Office's...
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