Robert Flemyng

Born: 1912-01-03

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Robert Flemyng OBE, MC (3 January 1912 – 22 May 1995) was a British film and stage actor. Flemyng was born in Liverpool, the son of a doctor, and was educated at Haileybury. He began his career as a medical student before abandoning medicine to become an actor. Flemyng made his stage debut in the early 1930s, and worked steadily in both London and Broadway. His first film appearance was in 1937, but he didn't appear steadily in films until after he served in World War II. During the war he was commissioned into the Royal Army Medical Corps and served with great distinction, reaching the rank of full colonel at the age of 33. He was awarded the Military Cross in 1941, mentioned in despatches, and was appointed OBE in 1944. He played the idealistic schoolmaster in the 1948 Roy Boulting film, The Guinea Pig, starring Richard Attenborough, and the key role of Detective Sergeant Roberts in the 1950 film The Blue Lamp. One memorable role was as a necrophiliac in the film The Horrible Dr. Hichcock in 1962. He ably played a sardonic British Secret Intelligence Service chief (his boss being George Sanders) in the 1966 film The Quiller Memorandum. The character actor worked in films and television until his death in 1995. Some of his later films include Kafka (1991) and Shadowlands (1993). Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert Flemyng, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​


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Battle of Britain

as Wing Cmdr. Willoughby
Released: 1969-09-15

In 1940, the Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle against the might of the Luftwaffe for...

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Funny Face

as Paul Duval
Released: 1957-02-13

A shy Greenwich Village book clerk is discovered by a fashion photographer and whisked off to...

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The Man Who Never Was

as Lt. George Acres
Released: 1956-04-03

The true story of a British effort to trick the Germans into weakening Sicily's defenses before...

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The Deadly Affair

as Samuel Fennan
Released: 1967-01-26

Charles Dobbs is a British secret agent investigating the apparent suicide of Foreign Office...

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The Medusa Touch

as Judge McKinley
Released: 1978-04-13

A French detective in London reconstructs the life of a man lying in hospital with severe...

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Shadowlands

as Claude Bird
Released: 1993-12-25

C.S. Lewis, a world-renowned writer and professor, leads a passionless life until he meets...

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Kafka

as The Keeper of the Files
Released: 1991-11-15

Kafka, an insurance worker gets embroiled in an underground group after a co-worker is murdered....

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The Blue Lamp

as Police Sgt. Roberts
Released: 1950-01-19

P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a...

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The Quiller Memorandum

as Rushington
Released: 1966-11-10

After two British Secret Intelligence Service agents are murdered at the hands of a cryptic...

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Oh! What a Lovely War

as Staff Officer in Gassed Trench
Released: 1969-03-10

The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the three boys...

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The Holly and the Ivy

as Major
Released: 1952-12-03

An English clergyman's neglect of his grown children, in his zeal to tend to his parishioners,...

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The Horrible Dr. Hichcock

as Prof. Bernard Hichcock
Released: 1962-08-01

The year is 1885, and necrophiliac Dr. Hitchcock likes to drug his wife for sexual funeral...

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Blind Date

as Sir Brian Lewis
Released: 1959-08-01

Dutch painter Jan-Van Rooyer hurries to keep a rendezvous with Jacqueline Cousteau, an elegant,...

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The Blood Beast Terror

as Dr. Carl Mallinger
Released: 1968-02-01

A Scotland Yard Detective must investigate a series of murders perpetrated by a giant...

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Young Winston

as Dr. Buzzard
Released: 1972-07-20

This historical drama is an account of the early life of British politician Winston Churchill,...

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The Thirty Nine Steps

as Magistrate
Released: 1978-11-04

The year is 1914 and Richard Hannay, Mining Engineer who is visiting Britain for a short time...

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Travels with My Aunt

as Crowder
Released: 1972-12-17

At his mother's funeral, stuffy bank clerk Henry Pulling meets his Aunt Augusta, an elderly...

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The Four Feathers

as The Old Colonel
Released: 1978-01-01

The fifth filming of the adventure classic about a British soldier in the 1880s who fights to...

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Cast a Dark Shadow

as Phillip Mortimer
Released: 1955-09-20

Edward "Teddy" Bare is a ruthless schemer who thinks he's hit the big time when he kills his...

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The Body Stealers

as W.C. Baldwin
Released: 1969-03-21

A British military paratrooper disappears in mid-air during a jump from an army plane. Two...

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The Magic Box

as Doctor
Released: 1952-01-01

Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As...

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The Spy with a Cold Nose

as M.I.5 Director
Released: 1966-12-19

A dog with a spying device under its skin is sent to the Russian government as a present. When...

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Conspirator

as Captain Hugh Ladholme
Released: 1949-07-28

A newlywed suspects her husband of being a Communist spy.

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Golden Rendezvous

as Capt. Bullen
Released: 1977-12-25

Action-packed suspense thriller finds innocuous-looking purser Carter (Harris) the unlikely hero...

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The Guinea Pig

as Nigel Lorraine
Released: 1948-10-26

A working-class boy wins a scholarship to a public school, as part of a post-World War Two...

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Spider's Web

as Sir Rowland Delahaye
Released: 1982-12-26

Clarissa, the wife of a Foreign Office diplomat, is given to daydreaming. 'Supposing I were to...

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The Darwin Adventure

as Prof. Henslow
Released: 1972-09-27

The story of Charles Darwin's journey on The Beagle.

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Let's Be Happy

as Lord James MacNairn
Released: 1957-05-07

On receiving an inheritance from her grandfather, Canadian Jeannie MacLean decides to visit the...

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A Cotswold Death

as Sir Charles
Released: 1982-01-12

A village cricket match on the lawn of a great country house - a traditional setting for the...

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Paris by Night

as Jack Sidmouth
Released: 1989-04-18

Clara Bell is a busy Euro MP with a husband and child at home and a high powered career - but on...

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Blackmailed

as Dr. Giles Freeman
Released: 1951-01-30

A blackmailer is murdered, and those who witnessed the scene agree to keep quiet; the...

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A Touch of Larceny

as Cmdr. John Larkin
Released: 1960-02-04

After falling in love with an American woman, Virginia Killain, who is engaged to another man,...

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Wuthering Heights

as Dr. Kenneth
Released: 1958-05-09

Mistreated foundling Heathcliff and his stepsister Catherine fall in love, but when she marries...

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Edward & Mrs. Simpson

as Sir Donald Somervell
Released: 1978-11-06

While still the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII meets the married American socialite,...

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Windom's Way

as Col. George Hasbrook
Released: 1957-12-07

A doctor's sophisticated wife joins him at his remote Asian practice to try and patch up their...

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Memento Mori

as Ronald Sidebottome
Released: 1992-04-19

Several elderly friends and acquaintances in 1950s London are disturbed to receive mysterious...

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The Firechasers

as Carlton
Released: 1971-01-01

Insurance investigator must find out who is setting fires. Along the way he meets and works with...

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Bond Street

as Frank Moody
Released: 1948-05-12

Charts the events occurring during a typical 24-hour period on London’s thoroughfare Bond...

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Head Over Heels

as Pierre
Released: 1937-02-12

Legendary British musical-comedy favorite Jessie Matthews chalks up another winner with Head...

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The Sting of Death

as uncredited
Released: 1955-02-12

Horror legend Boris Karloff stars in this rarely-seen mystery tale, directed by Daniel Petrie (A...

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The King's Breakfast

as The Lord Chamberlain
Released: 1963-01-01

A king misses the butter on his slice of bread.

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The Avengers

as Lord Maxted
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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The Professionals

as Sir John Terringham
First aired: 1977-12-30

The lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their...

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The Persuaders!

as Sir George
First aired: 1971-09-17

An English aristocrat and an American millionaire come together to tackle crime.

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Play for Today

as Sir Charles
First aired: 1970-10-15

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

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The New Avengers

as Minister Quaintance
First aired: 1976-10-22

The New Avengers is a British secret agent fantasy adventure television series broadcast during...

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Public Eye

as Maj-Gen. Felcourt
First aired: 1965-01-23

Public Eye is a British television series that ran from 1965 to 1975. It was produced by ABC...

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Suspicion

as Nigel Crossley
First aired: 1957-09-30

Suspicion is the title of an American television mystery drama series which aired on the NBC...

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Enemy at the Door

as Sir James Prideaux
First aired: 1978-01-28

Enemy At The Door is a British television drama series made by London Weekend Television for...

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Lady Killers

as Mr. Justice Havers
First aired: 1980-07-20

Compelling crime anthology looks at some of Britain's most notorious murder trials, in which...

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Zero One

as uncredited
First aired: 1962-10-03

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Edward and Mrs Simpson

as Sir Donald Somervell
First aired: 1978-11-08

While still the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII meets the married American socialite,...

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