Patrick Wymark
Born Patrick Carl Cheeseman in Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, England. He was brought up in neighbouring Grimsby and frequently re-visited the area during the height of his career. He attended University College, London, before training at the Old Vic Theatre School and making his first stage appearance in a walk-on part in Othello in 1951. He toured South Africa the following year and then directed plays for the drama department at Stanford University, California. Moving to the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, Wymark played a wide range of traditional roles, including Dogberry in Much Ado about Nothing and Stephano in The Tempest. He also played the parts of Marullus in Julius Caesar and Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Other stage parts included the title role in Danton's Death and, with the Royal Shakespeare Company, Ephihodov in The Cherry Orchard. His theatre roles also included playing the part of Bosola in a Royal Shakespeare Company production of John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi in 1960. His film roles included: Children of the Damned (1964), Operation Crossbow (1965), Battle of Britain (1969), Where Eagles Dare (1968), Blood on Satan's Claw (1971) and Cromwell (1970). On television, where at one point he was considered as a replacement for William Hartnell on Doctor Who., he was best known for his role as the machiavellian businessman John Wilder in the drama series The Plane Makers/The Power Game, a role which led to offers of company directorships. Wymark, however, was a gentle man in real life, self-confessedly ignorant of business matters, who considered the Wilder character to be a "bastard" and was described by his wife as "the most inefficient, dreamy muddler in the world."
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Battle of Britain
as Air Vice Marshal Trafford Leigh-MalloryIn 1940, the Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle against the might of the Luftwaffe for...
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Cromwell
as The Earl of StraffordDisgusted with the policies of King Charles I, Oliver Cromwell plans to take his family to the...
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Repulsion
as le propriétaireBeautiful young manicurist Carole suffers from androphobia (the pathological fear of interaction...
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The Blood on Satan's Claw
as The JudgeThe accidental unearthing of Satan’s earthly remains causes the children of a 17th-century...
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Witchfinder General
as CromwellEngland, 1645. The cruel civil war between Royalists and Parliamentarians that is ravaging the...
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Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow
as Joseph RansleyEnglish vicar Dr. Syn becomes a scarecrow on horseback by night to thwart King George III's taxmen.
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Operation Crossbow
as Prime Minister Winston ChurchillAllied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets...
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The Criminal
as SolWhen a robbery at a racetrack goes wrong ex-con Johnny Bannion is caught and sent back to...
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The Skull
as Anthony MarcoAn occult investigator buys the 150-year-old skull of the Marquis de Sade, which turns out to be...
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Children of the Damned
as CommanderSix children are found spread through out the world that not only have enormous intelligence,...
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The League of Gentlemen
as WylieInvoluntarily-retired Colonel Hyde recruits seven other dissatisfied ex-servicemen for a special...
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The Psychopath
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Doppelgänger
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Woman Times Seven
as HenriSeven mini-stories of adultery: a widow misbehaves at her husband's funeral, a wife turns to...
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West 11
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Tell Me Lies
as uncreditedAdapted and directed by Peter Brook from the Royal Shakespeare Company’s ‘production-in-progress...
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The Man from the Other Side
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Walt Disney Treasures - Dr. Syn: The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh
as Joseph Ransley"Scarecrow! Scarecrow! The soldiers of the King feared his name!" And so begins the...
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The Secret of Blood Island
as Major JocomoBased on the true story of a British secret agent, shot down over Malaya near to a Allied POW...
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The Cherry Orchard
as Semion Panteleyevich EpihodovMadame Ranevsky and her daughter Anya return home from Paris to find that their beloved family...
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Brand
as MayorBrand's a bleak and desolate play that challenges the notion of a stern and stoic faith in the...
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The Finest Hours
as Churchill (voice)A biography of Winston Churchill, shown through re-creations and actual film footage and told by...
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The Champions
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Sir Francis Drake
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The Scales of Justice
as Mr. GodfreyNot strictly TV productions, "The Scales of Justice" were cinema second features produced for...
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Sherlock Holmes
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The Plane Makers
as John WilderThe Plane Makers is a British television series created by Wilfred Greatorex and produced by Rex...
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The Wonderful World of Disney
as Joseph RansleyWalt Disney Productions has produced an anthology television series under several different...
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Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Winston Churchill (voice)Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark...
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