Russell Napier
Russell Napier was born in Perth, Western Australia. Originally a lawyer, Napier was active as an actor on the stage as early as 1936; on the screen, from 1947 to 1974, playing both comedic and dramatic roles in both cinema and television. Notably, he starred in a liveBBC television production of H. G. Wells' The Time Machine in 1949; still photographs of this production exist, but no actual footage.
The sinking of the Titanic is presented in a highly realistic fashion in this tense British...
Movie pageSink the Bismarck!
as Air Vice Marshal (uncredited)The story of the breakout of the German battleship Bismarck—accompanied by the heavy cruiser...
Movie pageHell Is a City
as SuperintendentSet in Manchester, heartland of England's industrial north, Don Starling escapes from jail...
Movie pageMan in the Middle
as Colonel ThompsonIn a remote jungle outpost in the Far Eastern theater of World War II, a hotheaded American...
Movie pageConflict of Wings
as Wg. Cmr. RogersIn rural Norfolk, villagers are spurred to action when it is announced that the nearby RAF...
Movie pageFrancis of Assisi
as Brother EliasIn 13th century Italy, Francis Bernardone, the son of an Assisi merchant, renounces a promising...
Movie pageTwisted Nerve
as Professor FullerMartin Durnley is a young man with an infantilizing mother, resentful stepfather and an...
Movie pageThe Saint's Return
as Col. StaffordA private detective goes after the people who murdered his girlfriend.
Movie pageThe Man in the Road
as Scotland Yard Supt. DavidsonA brilliant scientist who has lost his memory is hunted by Communist agents out to obtain a...
Movie pageTread Softly Stranger
as PotterUnable to pay his bookie, a man returns to his hometown where his embezzler brother and...
Movie pageA Town Like Alice
as Jack BurnsIn 1941 Malaysia, the advancing Japanese army captures a lot of British territory very quickly....
Movie pageThe Angry Silence
as ThompsonWhen the union in his factory walks out on strike, a family man refuses to participate, risking...
Movie pageStolen Face
as Det. CutlerA plastic surgeon changes the face of a female convict to match that of the beautiful woman who...
Movie pageH.M.S. Defiant
as Flag CaptainDefiant's crew is part of a fleet-wide movement to present a petition of grievances to the...
Movie pageThe Blood Beast Terror
as LandlordA Scotland Yard Detective must investigate a series of murders perpetrated by a giant...
Movie pageRobbery Under Arms
as Banker GreenDuring the mid 1860s, brothers Dick and Jim Marston are drawn into a life of crime by their...
Movie pageA Stranger Came Home
as Insp. TreherneSomeone knocked out a man and left him for dead during a fishing trip in Portugal. That someone...
Movie pageNobody Runs Forever
as LeedsDetective Scobie Malone accepts a mission to fly to London to arrest Sir James Quentin, a...
Movie page36 Hours
as Detective at Ann's Apartment (Uncredited)When his wife stops writing to him and his letters are returned unanswered, Dan becomes...
Movie pageThe Mark
as 2nd Plain Clothes OfficerA man who served prison time for intent to molest a child tries to build a new life with the...
Movie pageThe Last Man to Hang
as Detective Sgt. BoltonA man is tried for the murder of his neurotic wife by means of a sedative overdose.
Movie pageLittle Red Monkey
as Supt. John HarringtonSeveral murders of nuclear scientists, that baffles Scotland Yard, occur in London about the...
Movie pageSon of Robin Hood
as Squire MylesTen years after the death of Robin Hood, the bandit of Sherwood Forest and defender of the...
Movie pageDeath of an Angel
as Supt. WalshawThe angel of the title is Jane Baxter, the wife of country physician Patrick Barr. Everybody in...
Movie pageThe Case of The Smiling Widow
as Inspector DugganFrom the case files of Scotland Yard, detectives investigate the mysterious death of Peter...
Movie pageThe Brain Machine
as Insp. DurhamA British psychiatrist reads an amnesiac's (Maxwell Reed) brain waves and sees the mind of a killer.
Movie pageThe Blue Peter
as Raymond CurtisA Merchant Navy hero of the Korean War returns to England after three years of captivity in...
Movie pageA Time to Kill
as Inspector SimmonsA man and a woman are poisoned. The woman dies, but the man survives. The finger of blame begins...
Movie pageBlind Man's Bluff
as StevensYoung Anthony Pendrell plays the precocious son of Scotland Yard inspector Norman Shelley....
Movie pageThe Shiralee
as ParkerAn Australian "swagman" finds his wife with another man, so he takes the daughter, Buster, with...
Movie pageThe Narrowing Circle
as Sir Henry DimmockA journalist is framed for the murder of a rival and has to prove his innocence, whatever the cost.
Movie pageBlack Orchid
as Inspector MarkhamCaught in a loveless marriage, Dr. John Winnington (Ronald Howard) can't stop himself from...
Movie pageThe Dark Stairway
as Inspector HarmerA blind man, George Benson, witnesses the murder of Harry Carpenter by Joe Lloyd, but finds...
Movie pageGuilty?
as Inspector HobsonConvinced that a wartime resistance heroine is innocent of a murder charge, Nap Rumbold, a...
Movie pageDeep Dig
as uncreditedPit sinkers prepare the coal mines of tomorrow. An account of shaft sinking techniques.
Movie pageJustice
as Sir Harold PlantJustice is a British drama television series which originally aired on ITV in 39 hour-long...
TV Show pageUFO
as Dr. GreenA secret, high-technology international agency called SHADO defends Earth from alien invaders.
TV Show pageMan in a Suitcase
as uncreditedAccused of treason, a former U.S. intelligence officer based in London tries to clear his name,...
TV Show pageWire Service
as Admiral HabberfieldWire Service is an American drama series that aired on ABC as part of its 1956-57 season lineup.
TV Show pageThe Human Jungle
as HeadmasterThe Human Jungle is a British TV series about a psychiatrist, made for ABC Television by the...
TV Show pageScotland Yard
as uncreditedScotland Yard was perhaps the best-known series to emerge from Anglo-Amalgamated’s output of...
TV Show pageScotland Yard
as Inspector DugganScotland Yard was perhaps the best-known series to emerge from Anglo-Amalgamated’s output of...
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