James Ottaway

Born: 1908-07-25

James Ottaway was a British film, television and stage actor whose career spanned seven decades.


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The Long Good Friday

as Commissionaire
Released: 1980-11-01

In the late 1970s, Cockney crime boss Harold Shand, a gangster trying to become a legitimate...

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Absolution

as Father Matthews
Released: 1978-06-05

At a Catholic boys' school, domineering disciplinarian Father Goddard rules over his pupils with...

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That'll Be The Day

as Granddad
Released: 1973-05-13

Britain, 1958. Restless at school and bored with his life, Jim leaves home to take a series of...

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The Man Who Finally Died

as Rahn - Hotel Manager
Released: 1963-12-01

Joe Newman, a naturalised Briton, is telephoned by his German father, whom he believed long...

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Passport to Shame

as Assistant Registrar
Released: 1958-12-02

British melodrama about a cabbie befriending a girl caught up in the white slave trade.

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The Old Crowd

as Piano Tuner
Released: 1979-01-27

George and Betty, a middle-class English couple, have just moved into a big Edwardian house in...

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Inadmissible Evidence

as Watson's Guest
Released: 1968-06-23

A lawyer's agonizing journey to the breaking point of his private and professional lives as he...

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The Love-Girl and the Innocent

as Belobotnikov
Released: 1973-09-16

A BBC television adaptation of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's novel. The prisoner Nemov is an honest...

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The Widowmaker

as Mourner
Released: 1990-12-29

The Widowmaker is a 1990 made for television film starring Annabelle Apsion, Alun Armstrong,...

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Matchfit

as Jack Grace
Released: 1976-02-08

A grumpy Scottish soccer boss meets a young fan in a TB sanatorium.

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In the Wake of a Stranger

as Johnson
Released: 1959-06-30

An unfortunate sailor gets implicated in a murder he never committed. After a bookie is...

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Agatha Christie's Poirot

as Mr. Russell
First aired: 1989-01-08

From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet...

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Minder

as Vickery
First aired: 1979-10-29

This comedy drama series featured Terry McCann, a former boxer with a conviction for G.B.H., and...

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Minder

as Percy
First aired: 1979-10-29

This comedy drama series featured Terry McCann, a former boxer with a conviction for G.B.H., and...

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Casualty

as Edwin Palmer
First aired: 1986-09-06

Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department,...

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The Saint

as Dr. Cranston
First aired: 1962-10-04

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

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Crown Court

as Joseph Pearson
First aired: 1972-10-11

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

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Crown Court

as Mr. Prendergast
First aired: 1972-10-11

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

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All Creatures Great and Small

as Pub Customer
First aired: 1978-01-08

All Creatures Great and Small is a British television series, based on the books of the British...

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All Creatures Great and Small

as Dick Fawcett
First aired: 1978-01-08

All Creatures Great and Small is a British television series, based on the books of the British...

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The Sweeney

as Uncle Billy
First aired: 1975-01-02

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

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Keeping Up Appearances

as Mr. Oxley
First aired: 1990-10-29

Hyacinth Bucket (whose name, she insists, is pronounced "Bouquet") is a suburban housewife in...

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Pie in the Sky

as Jack Coverly
First aired: 1994-03-13

Pie in the Sky is a British offbeat police comedy drama programme starring Richard Griffiths and...

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As Time Goes By

as Mr. Wellington
First aired: 1992-01-12

Two lovers are reunited after decades apart following a mutual misunderstanding.

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Secret Army

as Priest
First aired: 1977-09-07

World War II drama about covert organisation Lifeline helping allied airmen escape after being...

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The Detectives

as Old Gentleman
First aired: 1993-01-27

The absurd adventures of two defective detectives, who - despite unbelievable incompetence -...

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Jeeves and Wooster

as Mr Burwash
First aired: 1990-04-22

Jeeves and Wooster is a British comedy-drama series adapted by Clive Exton from P.G. Wodehouse's...

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Justice

as County Court Judge
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 Paradise Club

as Syd Mellors
First aired: 1989-09-19

The Paradise Club is a BBC television drama starring Don Henderson and Leslie Grantham as Frank...

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The Protectors

as Bradley
First aired: 1972-09-29

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

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Gideon's Way

as Sideman
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 Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

as Parsloe
First aired: 1971-09-20

Adaptations of mystery stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's contemporary rivals in the genre.

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Quatermass

as Arthur
First aired: 1979-10-24

In the near future, a now-elderly Bernard Quatermass investigates the disappearance of his...

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Hancock's Half Hour

as uncredited
First aired: 1956-07-06

Hancock's Half Hour is a BBC radio comedy, and later television comedy, series of the 1950s and...

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Big Deal

as Tommy
First aired: 1984-10-14

The ups and downs of small time London gambler Robby Box, and the effect that his poker...

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Victoria Regina

as Mr. Richards
First aired: 1964-11-13

Patricia Routledge gives a career-best performance as Queen Victoria in this 1964 series of...

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The Fellows

as Thomas Anthem
First aired: 1967-05-19

Richard Vernon and Michael Aldridge star as Home Office-appointed criminologists in this clever,...

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