Murray Melvin
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).
The Phantom of the Opera
as ReyerDeformed 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 BernardA true-life drama in the 1920s, centering on British explorer Col. Percy Fawcett, who discovered...
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Barry Lyndon
as Reverend RuntAn Irish rogue uses his cunning and wit to work his way up the social classes of 18th century...
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Alice in Wonderland
as Chief ExecutionerAlice follows a white rabbit down a rabbit-hole into a whimsical Wonderland, where she meets...
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Alfie
as NatA young man leads a promiscuous lifestyle until several life reversals make him rethink his...
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Slipstream
as Man on StairsIn the near future, where Earth has been devastated by man's pollution and giant winds rule the...
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The Devils
as Father-Canon Jean MignonIn 17th-century France, Father Urbain Grandier seeks to protect the city of Loudun from the...
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A Taste of Honey
as Geoffrey InghamWhile out to avoid spending time with her narcissistic and promiscuous mother, sixteen-year-old...
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The Krays
as NewsagentThe Krays is a film based on the lives and crimes of the British gangsters Ronald and Reginald...
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The Prince and the Pauper
as Prince's DresserTom Canty is a poor English boy who bears a remarkable resemblance to Edward, Prince of Wales...
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H.M.S. Defiant
as WagstaffeDefiant's crew is part of a fleet-wide movement to present a petition of grievances to the...
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Start the Revolution Without Me
as Blind ManTwo sets of identical twins are accidentally switched at birth. One pair, Phillipe and Pierre...
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Princess Caraboo
as Lord MotleyBristol, England, early 19th century. A beautiful young stranger who speaks a weird language is...
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Let Him Have It
as Secondary School TeacherIn 1950s England, slow-witted Derek Bentley falls in with a group of petty criminals led by...
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The Emperor's New Clothes
as AntommarchiNapoleon, exiled, devises a plan to retake the throne. He'll swap places with commoner Eugene...
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Doomsday Gun
as Shop ManagerDr Gerald Bull was a genius at designing and building superguns (very large long range guns...
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Gulliver's Travels
as (voice)Based on the novel of the same name by Jonathan Swift and built around the Lilliput and Blefuscu...
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Lisztomania
as Hector BerliozIn the 19th century, Romantic composer/pianist Franz Liszt tries to end his hedonistic ways but...
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Comrades
as Mr. Frampton's ClerkThe story of "The Tolpuddle Martyrs". A group of 19th century English farm labourers who formed...
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The Criminal
as AntlersWhen a robbery at a racetrack goes wrong ex-con Johnny Bannion is caught and sent back to...
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Shout at the Devil
as Lt. PhippsDuring World War One an English adventurer, an American elephant poacher and the latter's...
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The Boy Friend
as AlphonseThe assistant stage manager of a small-time theatrical company is forced to understudy for the...
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The Ceremony
as GendarmeA man has an affair with his condemned brother's girlfriend while plotting his escape in Tangier.
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The Fixer
as PriestSet in tsarist Russia around the turn of the century and based on a true story of a Russian...
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Stories from a Flying Trunk
as Hans Christian AndersenA magical blend of choreography, stop-motion and live action, Stories from a Flying Trunk...
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The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones
as BlifilAnother stab at Henry Fielding's hilarious novel about the amorous misadventures of a dashing...
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Ghost in the Noonday Sun
as HamidosA pirate crewman kills his captain after learning where he has hidden his buried treasure....
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Kaleidoscope
as AimesBarney Lincoln is a rambling gambling man who scores sensational wins at poker and chemin de fer...
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Sparrows Can't Sing
as GeorgieCharlie returns to the East End after two years at sea to find his house demolished and wife...
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Suspect
as Teddy BoyA government team researching cures for plague find their results put on the Official Secrets...
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Ghost Story
as McFaydenSeveral old college friends converge at a mansion, ostensibly for a pleasant reunion. Larry...
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Set the Night on Fire: The Story of Ewan MacColl
as SelfBorn James Henry Miller in 1915, MacColl became prominent on the folk scene in the 1950s and was...
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Joseph Andrews
as Beau DidapperLady Booby alias 'Belle', the lively wife of the fat landed squire Sir Thomas Booby, has a lusty...
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The Village
as Male LibrarianA mysterious series of suicides fills the people of a small town with anxiety. Shortly before...
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Isadora Duncan, the Biggest Dancer in the World
as PhotographerThe outrageous life of the American dancer of the 1920s, Isadora Duncan, whom Ken Russell...
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The Ghost of Peter Sellers
as HimselfA documentary about Peter Medak's unreleased film 'Ghost in the Noonday Sun', starring Peter...
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Stanley and Us
as SelfThree hapless directors arrive in England from Italy to make a documentary on their idol. The...
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Solo for Sparrow
as LarkinA group of crooks accidentally kill an elderly shop assistant while stealing the keys to the...
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The Adventures Of Don Quixote
as Traveling BarberA self-proclaimed "knight" and his hapless squire travel the Spanish countryside, attacking...
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Gawain and the Green Knight
as SeneschalThe medieval legend of a supernatural knight who challenges the king's men to kill him.
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Smashing Time
as 1st ExquisiteTwo young women arrive in London to make it big in show business, and become corrupted by money...
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The Undertaker
as LennyA meek undertaker becomes trapped in a violent world when a gangster enlists him to dispose of a...
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Petticoat Pirates
as KennethUndistinguished British farce (in Technicolor and CinemaScope). Stoker Charlie (the diminutive...
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Sacred Hearts
as Father PowerA tough nun (Anna Massey) demands belief and obedience from convent schoolgirls (Katrin...
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Testimony
as Film EditorThe story of the great Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) and his life and career...
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Nutcracker
as LeopoldA Russian ballet dancer defects from the USSR, emigrates to England, and joins a ballet company...
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This Office Life
as ReporterOn arrival at British Albion, Mr Gryce felt that his lack of ambition would be completely...
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Hell on Earth: The Desecration & Resurrection of The Devils
as SelfHell on Earth is a documentary about Ken Russell's 1971 film, The Devils. Film critic Mark...
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Bill Douglas: Intent on Getting the Image
as HimselfA documentary exploring Bill Douglas' struggle from childhood poverty to acclaimed filmmaker of...
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A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
as DoctorA couple uses extremely black comedy to survive taking care of a daughter who is nearly...
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As You Like It
as Sir Oliver MartextHiding out in an industrial wasteland from the murderous wrath of a regional ruler, a woman,...
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Sunday Pursuit
as Head waiterThomas Wilkins has faithfully worked his entire life on Saville Row. Suddenly he is fired by his...
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The Diary of a Nobody
as Lupin PooterKen Russell's silent film treatment of the 19th century comic novel by the Brothers Grossmith -...
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Midsomer Murders
as Bentham DeQuettevilleThe peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed...
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The Avengers
as uncreditedThe Avengers is a British television series created in the 1960s. It initially focused on Dr....
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Torchwood
as BilisThe exploits a team of people whose job is to investigate the unusual, the strange and the...
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Jonathan Creek
as Lionel PrekoppWorking from his home in a converted windmill, Jonathan Creek is a magician with a natural...
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Bugs
as uncreditedBugs was a British television drama series which ran for four series from April 1995 to August...
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Super Gran
as Neville MinceAdapted from Forrest Wilson's books, the children's programme revolves around a grandmother with...
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Bulman
as uncreditedBulman is a Granada TV series which ran from 1985–1987 and followed the fortunes of the major...
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Starhunter
as Caravaggio AIStarhunter is a Canadian science fiction television
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Christopher Columbus
as Padre LinaresAfter his proposal to sail west to the East Indies is rejected by Portugal, Columbus overcomes...
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Starhunter ReduX
as CaravaggioIt's a time when humans have spread across the solar system, colonizing planets and building new...
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Chillers
as Mr. TaylorBased on Patricia Highsmith short stories. Displaying a sinister atmosphere, delving into the...
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Clouds of Glory
as Robert LovellDramatization 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 PonteLooks at Mozart's extraordinary short life and revolutionary music through a distinctive mix of...
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The Tyrant King
as Gerald GouldThe Tyrant King follows three teenagers as they traverse London searching for an answer to a...
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Stanleyandus - a Kubrick odyssey
as selfSTANLEYANDUS is a docuseries on Stanley Kubrick, featuring original sequences shot between 1997...
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