Murray Melvin

Born: 1932-11-30

Murray Melvin (10 August 1932-14 April 2023) was an English actor and writer. He won the 1962 Cannes Film Festival Best Actor Award for his role in A Taste of Honey (1961).


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The Phantom of the Opera

as Reyer
Released: 2004-12-08

Deformed since birth, a bitter man known only as The Phantom lives in the sewers underneath the...

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The Lost City of Z

as Lord James Bernard
Released: 2017-03-15

A true-life drama in the 1920s, centering on British explorer Col. Percy Fawcett, who discovered...

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Barry Lyndon

as Reverend Runt
Released: 1975-12-18

An Irish rogue uses his cunning and wit to work his way up the social classes of 18th century...

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The Devils

as Father-Canon Jean Mignon
Released: 1971-07-16

In 17th-century France, Father Urbain Grandier seeks to protect the city of Loudun from the...

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Alice in Wonderland

as Chief Executioner
Released: 1999-02-28

Alice follows a white rabbit down a rabbit-hole into a whimsical Wonderland, where she meets...

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Alfie

as Nat
Released: 1966-03-29

A young man leads a promiscuous lifestyle until several life reversals make him rethink his...

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Start the Revolution Without Me

as Blind Man
Released: 1970-02-04

Two sets of identical twins are accidentally switched at birth. One pair, Phillipe and Pierre...

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A Taste of Honey

as Geoffrey Ingham
Released: 1961-10-01

While out to avoid spending time with her narcissistic and promiscuous mother, sixteen-year-old...

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The Krays

as Newsagent
Released: 1990-04-27

The Krays is a film based on the lives and crimes of the British gangsters Ronald and Reginald...

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The Emperor's New Clothes

as Antommarchi
Released: 2001-08-11

Napoleon, exiled, devises a plan to retake the throne. He'll swap places with commoner Eugene...

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The Boy Friend

as Alphonse
Released: 1971-12-16

The assistant stage manager of a small-time theatrical company is forced to understudy for the...

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The Prince and the Pauper

as Prince's Dresser
Released: 1977-06-03

Tom Canty is a poor English boy who bears a remarkable resemblance to Edward, Prince of Wales...

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The Criminal

as Antlers
Released: 1960-09-13

When a robbery at a racetrack goes wrong ex-con Johnny Bannion is caught and sent back to...

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Ghost Story

as McFayden
Released: 1974-03-19

Several old college friends converge at a mansion, ostensibly for a pleasant reunion. Larry...

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Slipstream

as Man on Stairs
Released: 1989-06-22

In the near future, where Earth has been devastated by man's pollution and giant winds rule the...

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Princess Caraboo

as Lord Motley
Released: 1994-09-16

Bristol, England, early 19th century. A beautiful young stranger who speaks a weird language is...

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Doomsday Gun

as Shop Manager
Released: 1994-07-23

Dr Gerald Bull was a genius at designing and building superguns (very large long range guns...

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Lisztomania

as Hector Berlioz
Released: 1975-10-10

In the 19th century, Romantic composer/pianist Franz Liszt tries to end his hedonistic ways but...

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Suspect

as Teddy Boy
Released: 1960-11-15

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

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Gulliver's Travels

as (voice)
Released: 1977-01-01

Based on the novel of the same name by Jonathan Swift and built around the Lilliput and Blefuscu...

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Joseph Andrews

as Beau Didapper
Released: 1977-03-09

Lady Booby alias 'Belle', the lively wife of the fat landed squire Sir Thomas Booby, has a lusty...

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H.M.S. Defiant

as Wagstaffe
Released: 1962-04-15

Defiant's crew is part of a fleet-wide movement to present a petition of grievances to the...

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The Ceremony

as Gendarme
Released: 1963-12-18

A man has an affair with his condemned brother's girlfriend while plotting his escape in Tangier.

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Let Him Have It

as Secondary School Teacher
Released: 1991-10-04

In 1950s England, slow-witted Derek Bentley falls in with a group of petty criminals led by...

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The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones

as Blifil
Released: 1976-08-01

Another stab at Henry Fielding's hilarious novel about the amorous misadventures of a dashing...

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Shout at the Devil

as Lt. Phipps
Released: 1976-04-12

During World War One an English adventurer, an American elephant poacher and the latter's...

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The Village

as Male Librarian
Released: 2010-02-01

A mysterious series of suicides fills the people of a small town with anxiety. Shortly before...

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Sparrows Can't Sing

as Georgie
Released: 1963-03-26

Charlie returns to the East End after two years at sea to find his house demolished and wife...

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The Ghost of Peter Sellers

as Himself
Released: 2018-08-30

A documentary about Peter Medak's unreleased film 'Ghost in the Noonday Sun', starring Peter...

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Stories from a Flying Trunk

as Hans Christian Andersen
Released: 1979-11-01

A magical blend of choreography, stop-motion and live action, Stories from a Flying Trunk...

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Comrades

as Mr. Frampton's Clerk
Released: 1987-08-23

The story of "The Tolpuddle Martyrs". A group of 19th century English farm labourers who formed...

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The Fixer

as Priest
Released: 1968-12-08

Set in tsarist Russia around the turn of the century and based on a true story of a Russian...

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Gawain and the Green Knight

as Seneschal
Released: 1973-06-01

The medieval legend of a supernatural knight who challenges the king's men to kill him.

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The Undertaker

as Lenny
Released: 2023-11-03

A meek undertaker becomes trapped in a violent world when a gangster enlists him to dispose of a...

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Solo for Sparrow

as Larkin
Released: 1962-09-01

A group of crooks accidentally kill an elderly shop assistant while stealing the keys to the...

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Kaleidoscope

as Aimes
Released: 1966-07-01

Barney Lincoln is a rambling gambling man who scores sensational wins at poker and chemin de fer...

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A Day in the Death of Joe Egg

as Doctor
Released: 1972-05-01

A couple uses extremely black comedy to survive taking care of a daughter who is nearly...

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Isadora Duncan, the Biggest Dancer in the World

as Photographer
Released: 1966-01-02

The outrageous life of the American dancer of the 1920s, Isadora Duncan, whom Ken Russell...

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Set the Night on Fire: The Story of Ewan MacColl

as Self
Released: 2021-11-27

Born James Henry Miller in 1915, MacColl became prominent on the folk scene in the 1950s and was...

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As You Like It

as Sir Oliver Martext
Released: 1992-10-09

Hiding out in an industrial wasteland from the murderous wrath of a regional ruler, a woman,...

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Ghost in the Noonday Sun

as Hamidos
Released: 1973-01-01

A pirate crewman kills his captain after learning where he has hidden his buried treasure....

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The Diary of a Nobody

as Lupin Pooter
Released: 1964-12-12

Ken Russell's silent film treatment of the 19th century comic novel by the Brothers Grossmith -...

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Nutcracker

as Leopold
Released: 1982-12-17

A Russian ballet dancer defects from the USSR, emigrates to England, and joins a ballet company...

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Hell on Earth: The Desecration & Resurrection of The Devils

as Self
Released: 2002-11-24

Hell on Earth is a documentary about Ken Russell's 1971 film, The Devils. Film critic Mark...

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Smashing Time

as 1st Exquisite
Released: 1967-12-20

Two young women arrive in London to make it big in show business, and become corrupted by money...

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Sunday Pursuit

as Head waiter
Released: 1990-11-23

Thomas Wilkins has faithfully worked his entire life on Saville Row. Suddenly he is fired by his...

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Bill Douglas: Intent on Getting the Image

as Himself
Released: 2006-06-18

A documentary exploring Bill Douglas' struggle from childhood poverty to acclaimed filmmaker of...

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This Office Life

as Reporter
Released: 1984-12-30

On arrival at British Albion, Mr Gryce felt that his lack of ambition would be completely...

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Sacred Hearts

as Father Power
Released: 1985-11-01

A tough nun (Anna Massey) demands belief and obedience from convent schoolgirls (Katrin...

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Petticoat Pirates

as Kenneth
Released: 1961-11-01

Undistinguished British farce (in Technicolor and CinemaScope). Stoker Charlie (the diminutive...

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The Adventures Of Don Quixote

as Traveling Barber
Released: 1973-01-07

A self-proclaimed "knight" and his hapless squire travel the Spanish countryside, attacking...

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Testimony

as Film Editor
Released: 1988-11-01

The story of the great Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) and his life and career...

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Stanley and Us

as Self
Released: 1999-10-08

Three hapless directors arrive in England from Italy to make a documentary on their idol. The...

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Midsomer Murders

as Bentham DeQuetteville
First aired: 1997-03-23

The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed...

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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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Torchwood

as Bilis
First aired: 2006-10-22

The exploits a team of people whose job is to investigate the unusual, the strange and the...

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Jonathan Creek

as Lionel Prekopp
First aired: 1997-05-09

Working from his home in a converted windmill, Jonathan Creek is a magician with a natural...

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Bugs

as uncredited
First aired: 1995-04-01

Bugs was a British television drama series which ran for four series from April 1995 to August...

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Super Gran

as Neville Mince
First aired: 1985-01-20

Adapted from Forrest Wilson's books, the children's programme revolves around a grandmother with...

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Chillers

as Mr. Taylor
First aired: 1990-04-14

Based on Patricia Highsmith short stories. Displaying a sinister atmosphere, delving into the...

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Starhunter

as Caravaggio AI
First aired: 2000-11-01

Starhunter is a Canadian science fiction television

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Christopher Columbus

as Padre Linares
First aired: 1985-03-07

After his proposal to sail west to the East Indies is rejected by Portugal, Columbus overcomes...

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Starhunter ReduX

as Caravaggio
First aired: 2018-05-29

It's a time when humans have spread across the solar system, colonizing planets and building new...

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Bulman

as uncredited
First aired: 1985-06-05

Bulman is a Granada TV series which ran from 1985–1987 and followed the fortunes of the major...

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The Flaxton Boys

as Gerald Meder
First aired: 1969-09-21

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Clouds of Glory

as Robert Lovell
First aired: 1978-07-09

Dramatization by Melvyn Bragg and Ken Russell of the lives of the poets Wordsworth and Coleridge.

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The Genius of Mozart

as Lorenzo da Ponte
First aired: 2004-03-19

Looks at Mozart's extraordinary short life and revolutionary music through a distinctive mix of...

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The Tyrant King

as Gerald Gould
First aired: 1968-10-03

The Tyrant King follows three teenagers as they traverse London searching for an answer to a...

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Stanleyandus - a Kubrick odyssey

as self
First aired: 2022-01-14

STANLEYANDUS is a docuseries on Stanley Kubrick, featuring original sequences shot between 1997...

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