Known for Acting
Anthony Francis Steedman (21 August 1927 – 4 February 2001) was an English character actor, perhaps best known for roles in British TV drama series of the 1970s and 1980s and for his role as Socrates in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure.
Born
August 21, 1927
Died
February 4, 2001 (age 73)
Birthplace
Warwickshire, England, UK
Filmography
29 films, 62 shows


Mrs. Dalloway
1997 · 1h 37m · NL
Clarissa Dalloway looks back on her youth as she readies for a gathering at her house. The wife of a legislator and a doyenne of London's upper-crust party scene, Clarissa finds that the plight of ailing war veteran Septimus Warren Smith reminds her of a past romance with Peter Walsh. In flashbacks, young Clarissa explores her possibilities with Peter.


Attack of the 5 Ft. 2 Women
1994 · 1h 20m · US
Spoof-meister, Julie Brown does a musical send-up of Tonya Harding and Lorena Bobbit's debutante debacles
15: The Life and Death of Philip Knight
15: The Life and Death of Philip Knight
1993 · 2h 12m · UK
A teen, jailed in an adult prison in Britain, takes his own life in July 1990.


Split Second
1992 · 1h 30m · UK
In a flooded future London, Detective Harley Stone hunts a serial killer who murdered his partner and has haunted him ever since — but he soon discovers what he is hunting might not be human.


Delirious
1991 · 1h 36m · US
A soap opera writer gets hit on the head and wakes up as a character in his own show.


Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
1989 · 1h 30m · US
Two rock-'n-rolling teens, on the verge of failing their class, set out on a quest to make the ultimate school history report after being presented with a time machine.


Scrooged
1988 · 1h 41m · US
Frank Cross is a wildly successful television executive whose cold ambition and curmudgeonly nature has driven away the love of his life. But after firing a staff member on Christmas Eve, Frank is visited by a series of ghosts who give him a chance to re-evaluate his actions and right the wrongs of his past.


The Diamond Trap
1988 · 1h 33m · US
When streetwise Manhattan police detectives Rawlings (Howard Hesseman) and Brendan Thomas (Ed Marinaro) discover a major diamond heist is about to go down at a renowned gallery, they enlist one of their suspects, gallery employee Tara Holden (Brooke Shields). But an attempt to foil the robbery explodes with deadly consequences for Tara. Committed to break the case, Rawlings relentlessly pursues the clues through a twisted maze of deceit and danger that takes him to England, where he and Scotland Yard detecive Charlie Lawson expose the ultimate con and solve the crime.


The Return of Sherlock Holmes
1987 · 1h 35m · US
Sherlock Holmes is brought back to life by Watson's female descendant after being cryogenically frozen for eighty years.


Paint Me a Murder
1984 · 1h 15m · UK
Luke Lorenz is a artist whose paintings don't sell. His imaginative wife Sandra reasons that sales of his works would increase tenfold if he were to die, so they fake his death.


The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood
1984 · 1h 40m · US
The evil brother of Richard the Lionheart is holding the king for ransom, and only Robin Hood and his band of merry men can save him...for a small fee, of course.
Judgement Day
Judgement Day
1983 · 52m · UK
A female prosecuting solicitor has the toughest of jobs on her hands when she has to take over from a male whose conduct is less than professional.


The Forgotten Voyage: The Story of Alfred Russel Wallace
1983 · UK


Ascendancy
1983 · 1h 32m · IE
Ascendancy is a 1983 British film. It tells the story of a woman who is a member of the British landowning 'Ascendancy' in Ireland during World War I. Gradually, she learns about the Irish independence movement, and becomes involved with it.


The Missionary
1982 · 1h 30m · UK
In 1905, after 10 years of missionary work in Africa, the Rev. Charles Fortesque is recalled to England, where his bishop gives him his new assignment - to minister to London's prostitutes.


Troilus & Cressida
1981 · 3h 10m · UK
The bitter Trojan War drags on - the Greeks blame Achilles' apathy for low morale, while Troy's hero Hector challenges one of the enemy to a personal duel. And after her father exchanges Cressida for a Trojan prisoner, the war becomes personal for her distraught lover Troilus.


Othello
1981 · 3h 24m · UK
Iago and a comrade-in-arms are outside the Venice home of Desdemona's father, who does not yet know that she has eloped with Othello. Iago confides to his friend -- who had hoped to marry Desdemona -- that he serves Othello to further his own ends. Venice needs Othello to protect its commercial interests in Cyprus where the Turkish fleet is headed. Desdemona insists on going to Cyprus, too. In Cyprus, Iago plots to convince Othello that Desdemona has betrayed him with Cassio. A lot more than political ambition seems to be motivating Iago.


The Bunker
1981 · 2h 30m · US
Dramatization depicting the events surrounding Adolf Hitler's last weeks in and around his underground bunker in Berlin before and during the battle for the city.


The Thirty Nine Steps
1978 · 1h 42m · UK
The year is 1914 and Richard Hannay, Mining Engineer who is visiting Britain for a short time before returning to South Africa, is shocked when one of his neighbours, Colonel Scudder, bursts into his rooms one night and tells him a story that Prussian 'sleeper' agents are planning to pre-start World War I by murdering a visiting foreign minister. However, Scudder is murdered and Hannay is framed for the death by the 'sleepers'. Fleeing to Scotland Hannay attempts to clear his name and to stop the agents with the aid of Alex Mackenzie but not only is he is chased by Chief Supt Lomas for Scudder's death but by the agents who are headed by Appleton who has managed to hide himself in a high-placed position in the British Government...


Golden Rendezvous
1977 · 1h 42m · ZA
First Officer John Carter is aboard a cruise ship hijacked by terrorists who plan to steal gold bullion from a U.S. Treasury ship, using a nuclear bomb as leverage


Shuttlecock
1976 · 55m · UK
Sam likes his children to be grown-up chaps. So nine-year-old Harry is at a disadvantage in the battle of wits that develops...


Through the Night
1975 · 1h 20m
The play tells the story of Christine Potts, who undergoes an unexpected mastectomy, and struggles to cope with the aftermath and the deficiencies of her post-operative care.


The Abdication
1974 · 1h 43m · UK
Queen Christina of Sweden abdicates and travels to Rome to embrace the Catholic church.


A Coffin for the Bride
1974 · 1h 5m
Mark Walker is in the lucrative business of marrying wealthy older women and murdering them after the honeymoon. That all changes when he falls for cool blonde Stella McKenzie. He considers giving up his life of crime and finally marrying for love. The only obstacles in his way are a lawyer who suspects the truth, and temptation in the form of the perfect target for one more kill...


Gawain and the Green Knight
1973 · 1h 33m · UK
The medieval legend of a supernatural knight who challenges the king's men to kill him.


The Death of Adolf Hitler
1973 · 1h 47m · UK
The final days in the Bunker, with Hitler becoming more and more paranoid, plumbing the depths of his madness and reaching his well deserved fate.


I Want What I Want
1972 · 1h 31m · UK
Roy leaves his abusive father's house and starts life anew as a woman, named Wendy. Through trial and error, she learns the skills and consequences of being a woman.


A Distant Thunder
1970 · 50m
Peter Barkham hero-worships his distinguished father. However, this is threatened by the intrusion of events and people from his father's wartime past.


Ashes to Ashes
1965 · 1h 15m
Barbara is an assertive, clever, liberated woman, her own boss. Who'd think she could be swept off her feet by a handsome stranger for whom she'd give up her career, London, everything? Especially as her new husband maybe wants to kill her.