John Barrett

Born: 1910-02-18

Rochdale born John Barrett was a veteran of over 100 films and various TV programmes in a career that stretched twenty five years from 1958 to his death in 1983.


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The Eagle Has Landed

as Laker Armsby
Released: 1976-12-24

When the Nazi high command learns in late 1943 that Winston Churchill will be spending time at a...

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The Missionary

as Old Man Outside Hotel
Released: 1982-11-02

In 1905, after 10 years of missionary work in Africa, the Rev. Charles Fortesque is recalled to...

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Tess

as Old Dairy Hand
Released: 1979-10-06

A strong-willed peasant girl is sent by her father to the estate of some local aristocrats to...

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O Lucky Man!

as Bill
Released: 1973-03-25

An ambitious coffee salesman has a series of improbable and ironic adventures seemingly designed...

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Far from the Madding Crowd

as Joseph Poorgrass
Released: 1967-06-18

Bathsheba Everdine, a willful, flirtatious, young woman, unexpectedly inherits a large farm and...

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Robin and Marian

as Jack
Released: 1976-03-11

Robin Hood, aging none too gracefully, returns exhausted from the Crusades to woo and win Maid...

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The French Lieutenant's Woman

as Dairyman
Released: 1981-08-28

In this story-within-a-story, Anna is an actress starring opposite Mike in a period piece about...

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Star!

as Speaker at Hyde Park (uncredited)
Released: 1968-07-18

Gertrude Lawrence rises to stage stardom at the cost of happiness.

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War-Gods of the Deep

as Third Fisherman
Released: 1965-05-26

A chance discovery leads American mining engineer Ben Harris and acquaintance Harold to discover...

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Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

as Man in Cafe (uncredited)
Released: 1960-10-27

A 22-year-old factory worker lets loose on the weekends: drinking, brawling, and dating two...

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Anna Karenina

as Cord
Released: 1961-11-03

Anna, the wife of government minister Alexis Karenin, visits Moscow to help straighten out a...

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Jack the Ripper

as Onlooker at 2nd Murder Scene
Released: 1959-05-28

A serial killer is murdering women in the Whitechapel district of London. An American policeman...

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Nearest and Dearest

as Joshua Pledge
Released: 1972-01-01

Jimmy Jewel and Hylda Baker star in this big screen spin-off of one of ITV's most popular comedy...

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The Witches

as Mr. Glass
Released: 1966-11-21

Following a nervous breakdown, Gwen takes up the job of head teacher in the small village of...

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It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet

as Crump
Released: 1976-11-18

Based on James Herriot's books about life as a 1930s veterinarian in Yorkshire, John Alderson...

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Porridge

as Hedley
Released: 1979-08-12

Times are hard for habitual guest of Her Majesty Norman Stanley Fletcher. The new prison...

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Malachi's Cove

as Polwarth
Released: 1973-10-01

A tough young girl lives with her aging grandfather near a cove on the coast of Cornwall. She...

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The World of George Orwell: 1984

as Waiter
Released: 1965-11-28

Early adaption of Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four as part of the Theatre 625 series.

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A Prize of Arms

as Publican
Released: 1962-12-11

A criminal gang sets out to pull off the heist of a large army payroll.

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Up the Chastity Belt

as 1st Peasant
Released: 1972-01-14

A funny thing happened to Lurkalot, serf to Sir Coward de Custard, on the way to Custard Castle....

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The Trygon Factor

as Guide
Released: 1966-12-16

A Scotland Yard detective is investigating a string of robberies and a murder, and the...

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Remembrance

as Jimmy
Released: 1982-10-01

A group of Devonport-based Royal Navy ratings, due to sail to America for a six-month NATO...

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The Death of Glory

as Charles
Released: 1973-09-11

Prevented by health reasons from joining the Army, a man lives out his military fantasies by...

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Rolling Home

as Mr. Wyman
Released: 1982-12-03

Mr Wyman is an elderly man whose increasingly unreliable memory has landed him in a geriatric...

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The Hunting of Lionel Crane

as Christmas Potter
Released: 1970-01-21

An army deserter hides out on a country estate but falls foul of the gamekeeper.

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Our Cissy

as Stan Butler
Released: 1974-01-01

An old man travels to London from the North Country, accompanied by his son, in order to find...

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Murder Rap

as Tiger
Released: 1980-01-31

Wally, a caretaker in a block of flats, loses his job when the flats are used to rehouse...

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Comedians

as Caretaker
Released: 1979-10-25

Comedians is a TV movie/play by Trevor Griffiths, set in a Manchester evening class for aspiring...

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There's a Hole in Your Dustbin, Delilah

as Smellie Ibbotson
Released: 1968-09-30

A skiving bin gang are on high alert when their new inspector takes an interest.

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The Crunch

as Prison Orderly
Released: 1964-01-19

A megalomaniac dictator, in charge of a former colony, installs a nuclear bomb in its London...

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South Riding

as uncredited
Released: 1974-09-16

An adaptation of Winifred Holtby's classic novel

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The Testing of Eric Olthwaite

as Mr. Olthwaite
Released: 1977-09-22

Eric Olthwaite is so boring that his family all leave home to escape him. Then one day he is...

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Double Blast

as Trainer
Released: 1994-05-18

Two kids with martial arts training and their black belt father rescue a professor from...

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Pews

as George
Released: 1980-01-12

Liftchick has a problem. As beadle to the synagogue he is responsible for getting ten men...

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Packman's Barn

as Ben Packman
Released: 1976-01-27

Ben Packman leaves an old people's home to return to the Welsh mountains.

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Billy's Last Stand

as Billy
Released: 1971-02-04

Billy is his own boss. But Darkly has plans for him ...

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Twelve Off the Belt

as Eggy Greenall
Released: 1977-05-03

Grand Challenge pie-eating contest : ' Winner finishes most whole pies off the belt in...

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The Saint

as Inspector In Blue Goose
First aired: 1962-10-04

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

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Play for Today

as Billy
First aired: 1970-10-15

Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and...

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Play for Today

as Tiger
First aired: 1970-10-15

Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and...

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Last of the Summer Wine

as Guide
First aired: 1973-01-04

Unencumbered by wives, jobs or any other responsibilities, three senior citizens who've never...

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All Creatures Great and Small

as Kitson
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 Mr. Dent Snr.
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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Return of the Saint

as Reiter
First aired: 1978-09-10

Follow the swashbuckling exploits of Simon Templar, a modern-day Robin Hood of sorts.

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Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?

as Verger
First aired: 1973-01-09

Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? is a British sitcom which was broadcast between 9 January...

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The Famous Five

as Wooden-Leg Sam
First aired: 1978-07-03

The Famous Five is a British television series based on the children's books of the same name by...

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Bill Brand

as Albert Stead
First aired: 1976-06-07

Following the death of the sitting Labour Party Member of Parliament, Bill Brand is selected as...

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Objects of Affection

as Mr Wyman
First aired: 1982-11-12

A series of plays written by Alan Bennett.

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The Dustbinmen

as uncredited
First aired: 1969-09-23

The Dustbinmen is a British television sitcom made by Granada Television for ITV, which starred...

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A for Andromeda

as Oldroyd
First aired: 1961-10-03

Set in 1970, a team of scientists decipher a mysterious signal from space and discover that it...

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The Jensen Code

as Mr. Buckle
First aired: 1973-02-28

Sixteen-year-old Terry Connor is sent, along with a few of his friends, to an Outward Bound...

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